grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (04/14/84)
[Heilige Heilbut, Wombatmensch]
Although only 1 person even attempted to answer my musical trivia
quiz, I have gotten some requests to post the answers. (The person
who attempted, ihuxl!seifert ("Snoopy"), got three right out of
three tries). I have also added a "difficulty" rating of 1-12,
which is my personal opinion. So here are the answers:
1 A billion hearts are beating, far across the water...
Song: China
Artist: Randy Stonehill
Album: Equator
Difficulty: 9
2 And if she had to die trying she had one little promise she was going to keep
Song: American Girl
Artist: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Album: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Difficulty: 5
3 My father was a fisherman, my mama was a fisherman's friend...
Song: Duncan
Artist: Paul Simon
Album: [dunno -- I have it on "Greatest Hits, etc"]
Difficulty: 4
4 I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack than all the bean sprouts in Japan
Song: I'll be Mellow When I'm Dead
Artist: Wierd Al Yankovic
Album: Wierd Al Yankovic
Difficulty: 10
5 Leave blue-green footprints that glow in the dark...
Song: Mr. Spaceman
Artist: The Byrds
Album: [dunno -- I have it on "Byrd's Singles" or something]
Difficulty: 8
6 You say go slow, I fall behind...
Song: Time After Time
Artist: Cyndi Lauper
Album: She's so Unusual
Difficulty: 3
7 Watch the wise & wizend druid palm the unembalming fluid...
Song: Marinated Alligator
Artist: Van Rozay
Album: Van Rozay from San Jose'
Difficulty: 12
8 I feel a storm all wet and warm, not ten miles away...
Song: Mexican Home
Artist: John Prine
Album: Sweet Revenge
Difficulty: 9
9 I ain't no good in bed, but babe I'm hell on wheels...
Song: I'm an Automobile
Artist: Steve Forbert
Album: Little Stevie Orbit
Difficulty: 9
10 I change the channel but to my surprise they
still press their faces to the window...
Song: Faces to the Window
Artist: Daniel Amos
Album: !Alarma! (vol. 1 of the Alarma Chronicles)
Difficulty: 10
11 Who lived here? He must have been a gardener that cared a lot...
Song: Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnnie)
Artist: Elton John
Album: Jump Up
Difficulty: 2
12 Man alive, it's a hell of a reach from Hollywood to Mission Beach...
Song: Final Stand
Artist: ???? [Okay, so I don't even know all the answers myself. Sorry]
Album: Homegrown IV
Difficulty: 12
13 But please, you must forgive me, I'm old but still a child.
Song: All Dead
Artist: Queen
Album: News of the World
Difficulty: 4
14 We are but a moments sunlight, fading in the grass...
Song: Right now [?]
Artist: Yardbirds
Album: ????
Difficulty: 7
15 Rocks fell from the mountains in a chorus line...
Song: The Sun Began to Rain
Artist: Larry Norman
Album: In Another Land
Difficulty: 8
16 I have no more than I did before, but now I've got all that I need
Song: Papa Gene's Blues
Artist: The Monkees
Album: Meet the Monkees
Difficulty: 7
17 ...is forbidden as a device too suspect for human conveyance
Song: Europa
Artist: Blondie
Album: AutoAmerican
Difficulty: 6
18 Let's all get up and dance to a song that was
a hit before your mother was born...
Song: Your Mother Should Know
Artist: The Beatles
Album: Magical Mystery Tour
Difficulty: 1
19 Be my guest, you got nothing to lose...
Song: Sea Cruise
Artist: The Beach Boys, Herman's Hermits, Glenn Frey, Don McLean, etc.
Album: Ten Years..., Greatest Hits, No Fun Aloud, Believers, etc.
Difficulty: 2
20 Everyone's made out of little thin lines,
and sometimes their fingers are blue.
Song: Tonight (Television Song)
Artist: Michael Nesmith
Album: Elephant Parts (laserdisc)
Difficulty: 7
21 Girls as sharp as her are something rare...
Song: Mrs. Brown, You've got a Lovely Daughter
Artist: Herman's Hermits
Album: [I've got it on "Greatest Hits"]
Difficulty: 7
I hope you had fun pondering over these lines, even if you didn't send
in an answer. Now I don't know if I should:
1) Give up on music quizzes
2) Try to come up with an easier quiz
3) Encourage people to send in answers even if they only know a
couple of them.
My personal choice would be #3. What do YOU think?
No cute signoff,
-Glennjay@umcp-cs.UUCP (04/26/84)
Once again, "We are but a moment's sunlight....." is a line from the song "Get Together" by the Youngbloods (Jesse Colin Young went out on his own afterwords but without the success of his former group) Aren't there any children of the sixties out there? -- Jay Elvove ..!seismo!umcp-cs!jay