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100

This 1946 hit song by Perry Como was recorded by James Brown in 1963

Prisoner of Love 

100

Number 1 song for Nat King Cole 

# 1 – Mona Lisa


100

Finish the name of this group Herb Alpert and the?

Tijuana Brass

100

If you like makin' love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape

Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

Song by Rupert Holmes

100

About which famous person did Philip Glass write an opera?

Albert Einstein

200

1946 Top Hit on R/B  on the R/B charts for 16 consecutive weeks and 9 weeks on the pop charts. The use of nonsense syllables to convey excitement was passed on in later years

"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop"
Lionel Hampt

200

What was the song that Debby Boone sang and was the number one song of the 70s?

You Light Up My Life

200

What famous band sang “Rock Around the Clock?

 Bill Haley & The Comets

200

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone

The Sound of Silence

 Simon & Garfunkel

200

What is Milan's opera house called?

La Scala

300

In the United States, the best-known version of the song was recorded by Nat King Cole on February 6, 1951 and released by Capitol Records as catalog number 1449. It was a million-selling record and reached the number one position on the Billboard chart, staying there for five weeks and altogether on the Best Seller chart for 29 weeks. Billboard ranked this version as the number one song of 1951.

Too Young 

300

Who wrote this song in 1955 when he was working as a dishwasher at a Greyhound bus station in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. Explaining how he came up with the song, he told Rolling Stone: "I couldn't talk back to my boss man. He would bring all these pots back for me to wash, and one day I said, 'I've got to do something to stop this man bringing back all these pots to me to wash,' and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!' and that's what I meant at the time.

Tutti Frutti by Little Richard

300

What was the name of the English four-piece group out of Liverpool in the 60s?

The Beatles 

300

And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
Nothing seems to fit

 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (B.J.Thomas)

300

Tosca is the heroine of the opera but what is her first name?

Floria

400


This film's 1st song (same name) was released t on a 45 rpm single on September 24, 1957 as the first single from the film's soundtrack EP. It reached the top of the charts in the U.S. and the top 10 in several other countries.

Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
400

The only single to be released from the Jackson 5's first album, released in 1969

I want you back 

400

What was the name of the Rolling Stones first number 1 hit?

It's all over now

400

How you laughed when I cried
Each time I saw the tide

Pat Boone 

Love Letters in the Sand 

400

Whose final opera was called Death in Venice?

Benjamin Britain

500

This song by Marvin Gaye has been regarded by writers and music critics as a landmark recording in soul and was the #1 song in 1973

Let's Get It On

500

I dont need your ghetto scenes, I dont need your war machines.

The track starts out on a bluesy note before turning into one of the group's most rocking songs

 

The Guess Who - American Woman

500

When you graduate with a degree in music, what color tassel do you wear?



Pink

500

The world it tries to steal our hope
Tries to make us numb
But our love has overcome

Never Letting Go (Tim McMorris)  

500

A penny whistle is another name for what musical instrument?

A flageolet

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