Congratulations to Tony, who joined me on 18/20 in last week’s Album Covers III quiz.
This week your challenge is to identify the correctly spelled band names.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Pilgab/us-bands-spelling-bee?t=music
As a web editor, looking for spelling mistakes is my job, so I scored 15/15.
I enjoyed this song from Japan’s Tatsuro Yamashita popping up on random today. He’s an obvious devotee of Brian Wilson. It’s a cover – the song was written by Harry Nilsson and Phil Spector, and originally released by the Modern Folk Quartet in 1965.
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15/15
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Great work!
15/15 with 14 seconds left. I’m a pretty good speller too but not always the quickest.
Good effort!
15/15 5 seconds left. That said, I am disqualified because it took me 5 tries to get this. I had plenty of time to get them all right but kept rushing and effing up.
I only got seven right. I didn’t know you had such a short time to do it.
I like your commitment to the cause.
🙂
15/15 with 15 seconds left
There’s a pleasing symmetry there.
As someone who does proof-reading as part of his job, I’m embarrassed to say I stumbled after getting 13 with the correct spelling. On another note, I’ve had trouble leaving comments at your blog, including last week’s quiz when I was never able to post my comment (I did poorly so you didn’t miss much).
Sorry you’ve been having trouble commenting. I’ve been playing with caching plugins, which are a pain with the comment form. I think I might have fixed it going forward.
I never heard of that Harry Nilsson song before. I like it. I knew he was a Brill Building guy before he started singing but I never really knew any songs he wrote way back then other than Paradise by The Ronettes. He was from New York too. I think Brooklyn. And I just found out somebody else who is from Queens. Melanie. I thought I knew everybody who was from Queens.
I neve really thought about where Nilsson was from, and I had no idea about the Brill Building stuff. I just thought the Beatles discovered him.
Got 100% with 19 secs left! Really added the pressure with that countdown.
Great work!