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Post by egoodstein on Sept 7, 2019 23:53:54 GMT -5
Jorgen Ingmann
Pop singer/songwriter Tracy Tracy is the lead vocalist and songwriter for what UK indie band who've at times been compared to Blondie?
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Post by erik on Sept 8, 2019 12:40:28 GMT -5
I think they were called The Primitives.
Karla Bonoff's 1975 song "Home" has recently been recorded by which female country artist?
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Post by egoodstein on Sept 14, 2019 17:11:10 GMT -5
Not sure recently. Bonnie Raitt covered it back in the '70's, & Kate Brislin/Katy Moffatt on their mid-'90's duo album. ??
What Dan Hicks song is covered by Maria Muldaur on her first solo album ('73)?
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Post by erik on Sept 15, 2019 10:41:23 GMT -5
"Home" is on Trisha Yearwood's new album Every Girl.
Quote by egoodstein:
"Walkin' One And Only"
What was the only #1 hit on the Hot 100 for the legendary R&B band Earth, Wind, and Fire? (this in 1975)
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Post by egoodstein on Sept 22, 2019 21:52:20 GMT -5
I'll guess Shining Star. Not positive though as they had several top hits.
What stage and sometimes film director/producer directed the first staged version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1935?
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Post by erik on Sept 23, 2019 18:49:48 GMT -5
Rouben Mamoulian
Name the Johnny Cash album whose subject matter was so incendiary when it was released in 1964 that it provoked country radio stations not to play it, provoking a vicious response from the Man In Black.
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 7, 2019 0:08:37 GMT -5
Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indians I believe.
What's the title of the recently released 'new' album of John Coltrane tunes (with his quartet) which were used for an obscure 1964 French Canadian film Le Chat Dans Le Sac (Cat in the Bag). Hint: That's not the title of the album.
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Post by erik on Oct 7, 2019 18:59:06 GMT -5
Blue World, I believe.
Name the two Walter Hill-directed Westerns, released in, respectively, 1980 and 1993, that Ry Cooder provided the music scores for.
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 16, 2019 4:25:23 GMT -5
Long Riders & I think Geronimo American Legend.
What important songwriter sometimes used his mother's name ,'Naomi Neville,' in songwriting credits?
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Post by erik on Oct 17, 2019 9:05:51 GMT -5
Allen Touissant
Brandi Carlile and Maren Morris are part of what current alt-country female quartet?
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Post by egoodstein on Oct 21, 2019 16:51:21 GMT -5
Highwaywomen
Which of the Bangles retired (and so did not appear on their most recent new album Sweetheart of the Sun)?
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Post by erik on Oct 22, 2019 18:45:20 GMT -5
I think it was Michael Steele.
Name the late 1960s cult folk singer whose many song credits include "San Bernardino Waltz".
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Post by egoodstein on Nov 2, 2019 10:54:22 GMT -5
Mary McCaslin I think.
What well-regarded member of 'The Wrecking Crew' played electric bass on Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking, and also played on many Beach Boys sessions?
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Post by erik on Nov 2, 2019 17:25:06 GMT -5
Carol Kaye, I believe.
Glen Campbell, just prior to his own national breakthrough in 1967, was one of the musicians who played a session for which cult longhaired C&W band led by Gram Parsons?
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Post by egoodstein on Nov 16, 2019 23:18:53 GMT -5
I suspect the International Submarine Band.
What famous French pop singer wrote/published a 2008 autobiography entitled The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles?
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Post by erik on Nov 17, 2019 0:35:20 GMT -5
Francoise Hardy
For what John Wayne film did Marty Robbins do the title song?
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 1, 2019 2:45:45 GMT -5
The Alamo I believe.
For what famous '60's English film did Sonny Rollins provide the score, though not the famous 'promotional' song for it? And who wrote that famous song?
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Post by erik on Dec 3, 2019 19:35:15 GMT -5
ALFIE (the title song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and a hit for Dionne Warwick in 1967).
Name the two 1950s R&B Christmas songs first recorded by Charles Brown that were recorded by, respectively, Elvis Presley (in 1971), and The Eagles (in 1978).
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 14, 2019 9:34:31 GMT -5
Merry Christmas Baby recorded by Elvis. Please Come Home for Christmas recorded by The Eagles.
Who was Tom Waits's 'unexpected' singing partner on a film soundtrack released in 1982, and who directed that film?
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Post by erik on Dec 14, 2019 13:31:35 GMT -5
Crystal Gayle, for ONE FROM THE HEART, which Francis Ford Coppola directed.
Name the jazz singer who serenaded Michael Tilson Thomas at the recent Kennedy Center Honors with a version of "Somewhere" from West Side Story.
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Post by egoodstein on Dec 28, 2019 10:25:59 GMT -5
I think it was Audra McDonald, though I wouldn't characterize her as a jazz singer. More Broadway/cabaret. Song is on nice album by her, How Glory Goes, by the way.
What famed country music producer/songwriter & sometime performer is responsible for recording early Jerry Lee Lewis Sun Records recordings like Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On?
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Post by erik on Dec 28, 2019 13:26:06 GMT -5
"Cowboy" Jack Clement, I believe.
What was the name of the folk trio consisting of Linda Ronstadt and her two older siblings Peter and Suzy? (prior to Linda heading to L.A. at the end of 1964)
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Post by egoodstein on Jan 12, 2020 23:49:23 GMT -5
New Union Ramblers
Who was the guitarist in Johnny Cash's group The Tennessee Three most responsible for JC's signature 'boom-chicka boom' style of song arrangements?
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Post by erik on Jan 18, 2020 18:26:47 GMT -5
Luther Perkins
What bluegrass outfit was Chris Hillman involved in early on that, for a brief time, included further Flying Burrito Brothers and Eagles member Bernie Leadon?
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Post by egoodstein on Jan 19, 2020 11:06:25 GMT -5
I think called the Squirrel Barkers???
Who is Eunice Kathleen Waymon?
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