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Rock 'n' Roll Arithmetic
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Along that same vein (sorry for the lack of originality, I have a killer sinus headache):
Hysteria + Motor City/ David Jones0 -
might I buy vowel?
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Mustang_Susie wrote: »Along that same vein (sorry for the lack of originality, I have a killer sinus headache):
Hysteria + Motor City/ David Jones
Wasn't Hysteria a Def Leppard album?
Motor City has to be Detroit.
David Jones wouldn't be the same guy from the Monkeys would he?
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Mustang_Susie wrote: »Along that same vein (sorry for the lack of originality, I have a killer sinus headache):
Hysteria + Motor City/ David Jones
Wasn't Hysteria a Def Leppard album?
Yes it was but it's a clue to a word in the song title
Motor City has to be Detroit.
Correct for word in song title
David Jones wouldn't be the same guy from the Monkeys would he?
Nope, but Davy Jones is the reason this artist took a different stage name
Where does that get us?
Hints: recently departed- January 2016
He uses the Bo Diddley beat in this song
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David Bowie? But can't get the song!!0
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Panic in Detroit from Aladdin Sane / David Bowie?1
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SOoooooo cheated
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I wouldn't know any of them without "research".
Go ahead somebody. (Assuming it is right.)
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kcdambuster wrote: »
I wouldn't know any of them without "research".
Go ahead somebody. (Assuming it is right.)
You assumed correctly
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I believe the floor is open.
Anyone have a new problem for the weekend?0 -
How about a disco tune I just heard at number two on the 01/22/1977 AT40 countdown?
Delta Alpha Zulu Zulu + third little pig =[band/song]0 -
I know. Never heard of either band or song, but I'm not going back in already.
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Correct band. Go for it Susie.0
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Dazz Band/ Brick
Remember hearing that song on the transistor radio when I was a kid.
So, along that vein (again)...
What the sun does every morning/ Instrumental by Trumpeter
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Rise by Herb Alpert
Now along those lines...
Orville Redenbacher + 100 degrees + Land O' Lakes = [song/group]1 -
Unrelated but a good read for this group.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carole-king-has-her-first-1-hit-as-a-performer
June 19, 1970
Carole King has her first #1 hit as a performer
Carole King began her career in music as a young newlywed and college graduate, working a 9-to-5 shift alongside her then-husband, Gerry Goffin, in Don Kirshner’s songwriting factory, Aldon Music. It was there, working in a cubicle with a piano, staff paper and tape recorder that she co-wrote her first hit song (the Shirelles’ “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” 1960), her second and third hit songs (the Drifters’ “Some Kind Of Wonderful” and Bobby Vee’s “Take Good Care Of My Baby,” both 1961), her 14th and 17th hit songs (the Chiffons’ “One Fine Day,” 1963, and Herman’s Hermits’ “Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good,” 1964) and so on and so forth. It was not until 10 years after her songwriting breakthrough, however, that Carole King finally fulfilled her long-held dream of having her own hit record as both singer and songwriter. On June 19, 1971, she earned her first #1 single as a performer with the double-sided hit “It’s Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move.”
King’s hit single came from one of the best and most popular albums of the singer-songwriter era—an era that Carole King helped usher in. Tapestry was a milestone not only for Carole King, but for women in rock and roll in general. As the critic Robert Christgau put it: “King has done for the female voice what countless singer-composers achieved years ago for the male: liberated it from technical decorum. She insists on being heard as she is…with all the cracks and imperfections that implies.” On the heels of Tapestry‘s success, up-and-coming solo female performers like Carly Simon and Rickie Lee Jones found an easier path to popularity, and the great Joni Mitchell entered the period of her greatest commercial success.
The success of Tapestry and Carole King’s first #1 single launched her career as a solo performer, but a look around the pop charts of 1971 reveals just how big a force she remained behind the scenes. Among the artists who earned #1 pop hits that year, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes, George Harrison and Paul McCartney all recorded a Carole King song at one point in their careers, and Donny Osmond and James Taylor owe their only chart-topping 1971 hits (“Go Away Little Girl” and “You’ve Got A Friend,” respectively) to her songwriting talents.1 -
Another one today. I always liked Stars On, but guy I worked with said he hated it. He'd hear it and thought the Beatles were on, but then he'd find it was Stars On.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/beatles-and-disco-equals-a-1-pop-hit-for-stars-on-45
June 20, 1981
Beatles and Disco equals a #1 pop hit for Stars on 45
It was the summer of 1981, and after an 11-year hiatus, the sound of the Fab Four once again ruled the radio airwaves. Only instead of John, Paul, George and Ringo, this time the world had to settle for Bas, Hans, Jaap and Okkie—the Dutch studio musicians behind the phenomenon called Stars on 45. Not so much a band as an audacious business plan, Stars on 45 climbed all the way to the top of the U.S. pop charts on June 20, 1981, with a single whose impossibly long title takes almost as long to read as the song itself takes to play: “Medley: Intro ‘Venus’/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I’ll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want To Know A Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You’re Going To Lose That Girl/Stars On 45.”
For those not familiar with the ponderously titled “Medley: Intro ‘Venus’…,” it was a recording inspired by one Dutchman setting out–just six months after John Lennon’s tragic death—to re-record a half-dozen Beatles snippets to a relentless disco hand clap. Jaap Eggermont was inspired by a bootleg 12″ record then popular in Dutch dance clubs, which featured a medley of clips from original recordings by the Buggles, the Archies and Madness as well as the Beatles. For his own project, Eggermont chose to re-record a handful of Beatles classics using uncanny sound-alikes gathered from various popular Dutch groups: Bas Muys for John Lennon, Okkie Huysdens for Paul McCartney and Hans Vermeulen for George Harrison. Because he himself held the copyright on “Venus”—a #1 hit from 1970—Eggermont used pieces of Shocking Blue’s original recording of that song and threw in bits of a re-recorded “Sugar Sugar” just to kick things up a notch. Stitched together and set to the aforementioned disco beat, these are the parts whose sum was “Medley: Intro ‘Venus’….”
The Stars on 45 formula was a rousing commercial success. Not only did it produce a #1 hit on this day in 1981, but it led to several follow-ups that charted in the Billboard Hot 100: “Stars on 45 Medley #2″ (featuring more Beatles tunes); “More Stars” (this time exhuming several Motown hits); and “Stars on 45 III: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder.” It also spawned a dubious mini-trend of crammed-together medleys produced by others, including two Top 40 hits in “The Beach Boys Medley” (1981) and “The Beatles Movie Medley” (1982).1 -
Popcorn/Hot Butter0
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Correct Vik. Give us a new one.0
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Let's try another easy instrumental...
Shaft homonym + Song is written in the minor key of / German composer known for his work in film.0 -
I did not know that was the name of that song/group.
My 12 year old: "that sounds like a metronome" (she plays piano) 0 -
Let's try another easy instrumental...
Shaft homonym + Song is written in the minor key of / German composer known for his work in film.
Axel F/ Hans Zimmer and/or Harold Faltermeyer?
Useless trivia: (that one time- Pat) when I was in marching band we started to learn a color guard routine to this song but ended up scrapping it. Bummer because it was a cool routine and one of our competitors did it instead...
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Mustang_Susie wrote: »Let's try another easy instrumental...
Shaft homonym + Song is written in the minor key of / German composer known for his work in film.
Axel F/ Hans Zimmer and/or Harold Faltermeyer?
Useless trivia: (that one time- Pat) when I was in marching band we started to learn a color guard routine to this song but ended up scrapping it. Bummer because it was a cool routine and one of our competitors did it instead...
That's correct! Your turn.0 -
Tuning into a slightly different station/genre:
Lakeside + Coolio0
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