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Rock 'n' Roll Arithmetic

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  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    This is the only song that comes to mind:

    "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    Hijacking for a news flash from This Day In History.

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-meets-paul-for-the-first-time

    July 6, 1957
    John meets Paul for the first time

    The front-page headline of the Liverpool Evening Express on July 6, 1957, read “MERSEYSIDE SIZZLES,” in reference to the heat wave then gripping not just northern England, but all of Europe. The same headline could well have been used over a story that received no coverage at all that day: The story of the first encounter between two Liverpool teenagers named John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Like the personal and professional relationship it would lead to, their historic first meeting was a highly charged combination of excitement, rivalry and mutual respect.

    It’s easy to assume that John and Paul would eventually have met on some other day had a mutual friend not chosen that hot and humid Saturday to make the introduction. But as much as they had in common, the two boys lived in different neighborhoods, went to different schools and were nearly two years apart in age.

    Only John was scheduled to perform publicly on July 6, 1957. The occasion was the annual Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, a parade and outdoor fair at which John and his Quarry Men Skiffle Group had been invited to play. The main attractions were a dog show and a brass band, but a family connection had helped get the Quarry Men added to the bill as a nod to the hundreds of teenagers in attendance. Midway through their first set, 15-year-old Paul McCartney showed up and watched, transfixed, as John, despite his rudimentary guitar skills and his tendency to ad-lib in place of forgotten lyrics, held the crowd with charm and swagger. After the show, it was Paul’s turn to impress John.

    A mutual friend made the introduction in the nearby church auditorium, where John and his bandmates slouched on folding chairs and barely acknowledged the younger boy. Then Paul pulled out the guitar he was carrying on his back and began playing Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” then Gene Vincent’s “Be Bop A Lula,” then a medley of Little Richard numbers. As Jim O’Donnell writes in The Day John Met Paul, his book-length account of this historic moment in music history, “A young man not easily astonished, Lennon is astonished.” Paul’s musicianship far outstripped the older Lennon’s, but more than that, John recognized in Paul the same passion Paul had detected in John during his earlier onstage performance. Soon Paul was teaching a rapt John how to tune his guitar and writing out the chords and lyrics to some of the songs he’d just played.

    Later that evening, walking home with one of his bandmates, John announced his intentions toward their new acquaintance. Two weeks later, John Lennon invited Paul McCartney to join the Quarry Men.
  • RunTimer
    RunTimer Posts: 9,137 Member
    HEY! I thot it was a given that only I was allowed to Jump In :wink:
    Thanks @deckerp for the walk down memory penny lane
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings wrote: »
    This is the only song that comes to mind:

    "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
    Correct!: 
    Jul 3, 2015 - Sixty years ago, the world's first bikini made its debut
    'Wings, you're up!
    https://youtu.be/ICkWjdQuK7Q


  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    edited July 2017
    3-way Mash-up (see spoiler for definition). I'll provide the 3 artists (in order) and you have to provide the 3 connecting songs.

    *Difficulty Level: Easy
    Definition:
    Mashup: MA` sh * up: (n)
    The would-be song if two artists mashed their titles together
    Example:
    Artist: George Gerswin and the Elvis =
    Song: I can't give you anything but LOVE Me tender

    1. The Police
    2. A-ha
    3. Janis Joplin
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    edited July 2017
    Every Step You Take On Me and Bobby McGee

    Good mashup.
  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    Every Breath You Take On Me and Bobby McGee
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    edited July 2017
    deckerp wrote: »
    Every Step You Take On Me and Bobby McGee

    Good mashup.
    debbiemuz wrote: »
    Every Breath You Take On Me and Bobby McGee

    @deckerp - Although I'm sure you're referring to the same song, the correct title to the Police song is:
    Every "Breath" You Take not Every "Step" You Take thus the victory goes to @debbiemuz - You're up!
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    Oops. Duh. :)
  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    edited July 2017
    Sorry deckerp, I think we were only a minute apart. Didn't see your answer.

    Here you go. Once you get the songs, you'll get it (I hope):

    (Beatles/Adam Ant) + Bowling for Soup=?

    ? is not a song, just the answer...
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    edited July 2017
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  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    Clue: all the songs have #s.
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    edited July 2017
    Beatles could be Eight Days A Week.
    Adam Ant has to be Goody Two Shoes.
    Had to lookup a Soup song.

    Is that (8/2) + 13 = 17?

    If that's correct it adds up to a Janis Ian song.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    deckerp wrote: »
    Beatles could be Eight Days A Week.
    Adam Ant has to be Goody Two Shoes.
    Had to lookup a Soup song.

    Is that (8/2) + 13 = 17?

    If that's correct it adds up to a Janis Ian song.

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  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    edited July 2017
    Sorry this was so hard. You got one out of 3. Here are more clues.

    Beatles - "old" age song
    Adam Ant - Correct"Goody 2 Shoes"
    Bowling for Soup - Year (lyrics "Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Way before Nirvana, There was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV"

    __/2+__=?
    (and boy does this equation make me feel old!)
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    edited July 2017
    When I'm 64
    Good Two Shoes
    1985 (I guess I do know this song, just not the band name.)

    64 / 2 + 1985 = 2017?
  • debbiemuz
    debbiemuz Posts: 194 Member
    edited July 2017
    Yep, @deckerp you got it! Great job. Your up B)
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    Looking for a theme in the songs by these acts.

    Beatles + Neil Sedaka + Katy Perry = [song theme]

    They've all done many, many songs, so I'll give a clue if needed.
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    I'm going to go with Birthday as the theme?
    Beatles - (You Say It's Your) Birthday
    Neil Sedaka - Happy Birthday Sweet 16
    Katy Perry - Birthday
  • deckerp
    deckerp Posts: 4,387 Member
    Correct.
  • let_me_clip_dirty_wings
    let_me_clip_dirty_wings Posts: 2,910 Member
    3-way Mash-up (see spoiler for definition). I'll provide the 3 artists (in order) and you have to provide the 3 connecting songs.
    Difficulty level: Easy to Moderate
    Definition:
    Mashup: MA` sh * up: (n)
    The would-be song if two artists mashed their titles together
    Example:
    Artist: George Gerswin and the Elvis =
    Song: I can't give you anything but LOVE Me tender

    1. Elvis Presley
    2. Led Zeppelin
    3. Chuck Berry

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