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Rock 'n' Roll Arithmetic

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  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    I thought that one might be a bit obscure! Maybe we have a similar music base BillyC.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    edited April 2016
    I like the Dartford boys a lot, Lucknow lad, not so much. :)

    I'm not familiar with the song tbh, but might recognise it if I heard it. I'll hunt it down.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I found it, and do remember it. Probably haven't heard it in 40 years!
  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    Good Stuff.

    Maybe more clues needed for others.
    Artists.
    1. Now geriatric :o but still rocking.
    2. One of the top sellers in UK singles chart history.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    And I believe 2. still tours as well. Amazing what these old guys do.
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,385 Member
    Is the second artist Cliff Richard?
  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    Yep. Born in Lucknow, India.
  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    December's Children.
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,385 Member
    I like Cliff Richard's songs that charted in the US, but you're right, he didn't have much success here. It'll be hard to come up with a match for me.
  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    Mick and Keith wrote it for "themselves", and Cliff Richard recorded it in 1966.

    1. December's Children album.
    2. Only got to UK #15.

  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,385 Member
    kcdambuster wrote: »
    Mick and Keith wrote it for "themselves", and Cliff Richard recorded it in 1966.

    1. December's Children album.
    2. Only got to UK #15.

    I found "Blue Turns to Grey" on the Rolling Stone's album you mentioned.
  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    edited April 2016
    Yeah. That's it.

    Maybe that was a bit too obscure. (Album track and number 15 only, as a single).

    Love this thread, but must remember - age, location and time warp musical taste in future problems. :/
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,385 Member
    edited April 2016
    OK, here's a deceptively simple and hard to believe problem. I was just listening to a countdown on a local station from 1977 and heard this.

    ABBA + 1 = [song]

    This song is the only number one song in the U.S. I can't hardly believe this was the case. Can someone in our group name that song without researching it?
  • VikMcAnik
    VikMcAnik Posts: 17,222 Member
    edited April 2016
    Fernando? nope...lol
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,385 Member
    That isn't one of my favorites, but was a big hit for them. More so in the UK than the US.

    That's the idea though. Only one of their hits was a number one in the US.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    yikes

    now for good (or bad) I'm forced to recall the Abba Catalog

    Waterloo?
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    Take a Chance On Me?
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    edited April 2016
    duelling with @Mustang_Susie
    Whiner Winner takes it All?
  • kcdambuster
    kcdambuster Posts: 217 Member
    I Have A Dream, (That you will let me use Wikipedia) :smiley:
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,385 Member
    Not Waterloo.
    Not Take A Chance On Me.
    Not Winner Takes It All.

    All good stuff though.

    Research is allowed if you can't think of more of their hits.

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