Music Quiz: 7 to 1 Hits by Royal Artists
Congratulations to Sheik Yerbouti, who just pipped Tony on the squirrel quiz.
This week you need to link the hit songs to the artists with royal names, including Duke Ellington, Chaka Khan, and Carole King. Note the hit clause; Prince wrote and recorded eight songs on the list, but one of them was a hit for another artist.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/DesertSpartan/no-king-of-rock-or-pop
Perhaps disadvantaged by King Crimson’s poor showing as a singles band, I only scored 25/28. Can you beat me?
Americana legend Jason Isbell dropped a new single, ‘Be Afraid’, this week, in advance of a new album:
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Graham Fyfe is fascinated by pop music, and he may be the only blogger in the world to cover Neil Diamond and Ariana Grande.
SCORE
23/28
Duke Ellington and Chaka Khan got me.
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Good effort. I found Duke Ellington OK – I found the song titles from the older generation easy to differentiate.
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SM I should have known was Duke
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I was doing well…until I stopped doing well. Ended up with 24/28. I forgot at one point that it was about the artist associated with the song, so I chose Prince for a particular Chaka Khan hit that he wrote. Oh well.
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Good effort! I did mention the Chaka Khan conundrum in my instructions.
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Instructions? Who follows instructions?
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23 – was flying out of the gates with Prince & Queen before things started to fall apart.
Nice to see some CanCon sneak in there with the Kings!
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I didn’t even know they were Canadian…
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I once worked with a guy who had worked with a guy that was their drummer!
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My dad worked with a guy who was in The Fourmyula – NZ’s biggest 1960s band.
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This definitely wasn’t my quiz. I gave up after I saw Carole King AND Duke Ellington. There was no process of elimination here,
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It was a Stormy Monday? You felt the earth move under your feet?
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22 of 28 – my lack of knowledge of several of these artists made me end up guessing with predictable results. Nailed all the Prince ones though.
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I was expecting my readership to nail Queen and Prince.
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Yes meant to include Queen as well!
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17/28 – didn’t know the Duke Ellington or Chaka Khan songs
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I don’t really know Chaka Khan either (except I Feel For You), but I found it easy to spot the Duke Ellington songs. Does it sound like a swing song?
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Re: Jason Isbell song, I fell like a number of artists I admire have decided that its time to start speaking out about the political situation in US. Just listened to the new Drive By Truckers album, and the Avett Brothers album from last year was much more political than what they’ve done in the past.
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The first single from Isbell’s last album was pointedly political too – ‘Hope The High Road’. Amanda Shires wore a “nasty woman” t-shirt in the music video.
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Apparently Lucinda Williams has a new song named Man Without A Soul.
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Will check out! Always loved her songs
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Too many I didn’t know so my score was too low to even register. Maybe next week.
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Better luck next time!
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I scored 24. Turns out I know the names of very few Carole King tunes. Oh well.
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Also, new Isbell tune is a good one. That’s another album to add to the list…
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Yup, lots of stuff coming down the pipeline. I haven’t found a lot of 2020 stuff I want to cover yet, but I guess we’re not in peak release season yet.
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There have been a few – but new Kanaan and The Third Mind album were the two that grabbed me so far. New Dulli album tomorrow, which I’ll be spending a lot of time with I think.
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Soccer Mommy is the record I’m most excited about this month.
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I didn’t even realise there was one out this month! I’ll check that out.
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Good effort! I think that puts you in first-equal so far. I reviewed a bunch of Carole King stuff last year, but there was one I had to guess at.
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