Another music trivia quiz, fer chrissake?!

[NightTrain]

Why, yes it is!

1. Who wrote and recorded “The Twist” in 1959, a year before Chubby Checker waxed it?

2. What was the first African-American vocal group to have a #1 pop single in the rock ‘n’ roll era? For bonus points, with which of their many hits did they accomplish that feat?

3. What is the shortest #1 pop single of all time?

4. Which #1 pop single has the shortest title of all time?

5. Milking this theme for all it’s worth, which #1 artist had the shortest name of all time?

6. What was the first instrumental to go to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s?

7. What do the following artists all have in common?

Arthur Alexander
Elvin Bishop
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Roy Clark
Bobby Day
Derek & The Dominoes
Bo Diddley
Arlo Guthrie
Leon Haywood
Jimi Hendrix
Ivory Joe Hunter
Julie London
Hugh Masekela
Mickey & Sylvia
Randy Newman
Buck Owens
Carl Perkins
Patti Smith
The Tams
Thin Lizzy
Tony Joe White
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
Tammy Wynette
The Youngbloods

[Kenneth ken]

1. taking a whack at it

1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. If - by Bread
5. ?
6. ?
7. none of them have ever been in my kitchen - in my best Cliff Clavin paraphrase.

[ronzo]

2. ok.

1
2 Platters
3
4
5 cher?
6 Miami Vice
7

i dunno.

[NightTrain]

3. Two replies? That's it?

Was the quiz really that difficult?

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Stumped the heck out of me, NightTrain

[FlashHarry]

4. I'll try...

1. Who wrote and recorded “The Twist” in 1959, a year before Chubby Checker waxed it?

???

2. What was the first African-American vocal group to have a #1 pop single in the rock ‘n’ roll era? For bonus points, with which of their many hits did they accomplish that feat?

Oh, jeez, I dunno... the Platters? Smoke Gets in Your Eyes?

3. What is the shortest #1 pop single of all time?

I'd say 'Bim-Bom' by Sergio Mendez or 'Shape of Things to Come' by Max Frost & the Troopers

4. Which #1 pop single has the shortest title of all time?

''Help?"

5. Milking this theme for all it’s worth, which #1 artist had the shortest name of all time?

The glyph formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?

6. What was the first instrumental to go to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s?

The Axel F Theme or Rockit? (or was it that shitty ballerina one?)

7. What do the following artists all have in common?

Other than they're carbon-based, bipedal life forms? No clue.

[NightTrain]

6. Guess I oughta give the answers

Sorry I posted such a difficult quiz! When you've been immersed in rock 'n' roll history for 25 of your 37 years (as I have), what seems obvious to you may not be that way for the majority. I'll try to remember that from now on! :-)

Anyway, here are the answers:

1. Hank Ballard
2. The Platters with "My Prayer" (1956)
3. "Stay" by Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs (Just 1:37 in length!)
4. "Why" by Frankie Avalon (1959)
5. M, of "Pop Muzik" fame (1979)
6. "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis (1982)
7. Each of these artists only ever once cracked the pop top forty with a single. They even got into Wayne Jancik's "Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders." Hard to believe for most of those acts, but it's the truth, y'all!

[mitchum]

7. Thanks for posting the answers, NightTrain

this quiz was driving me crazy (only knew 1, 2,6)