How Well Do-OO-OO You-OO-OO Know The Oldies?
Are you an Oldies Fan? You sure? You do understand that true "Oldies" are songs recorded in the 50's and 60's, right?
Okay, let's find out if you've got real Doo Wop chops. Take this quiz and see how you score as a true Oldies Fan.
(To Kind of Blue and Tom Cordle: PLEASE don't put YOUR answers in the comments! You know them all and you really shouldn't play. :)
Everybody else, take your best shot. I'll put up the answers during the weekend. Some of them *might* be in the video above. Which you really should watch. It's a gas!
Doo Wop Oldies Quiz - Answers Bolded Below
1. When did 'Little Suzie' finally wake up?
(a) The movie's over, it's 2 o'clock
(b) The movie's over, it's 3 o'clock
(c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock
2. 'Rock Around The Clock' was used in what movie?
(a) Rebel Without A Cause
(b) Blackboard Jungle
(c) The Wild Ones
3. What's missing from a Rock & Roll standpoint? Earth _____
(a) Angel
(b) Mother
(c) Worm
4. 'I found my thrill ..... where?
(a) Kansas City
(b) Heartbreak Hotel
(c) Blueberry Hill
5. 'Please turn on your magic beam, ______, bring me a dream:
(a) Mr. Sandman
(b) Earth Angel
(c) Dream Lover
6. For which label did Elvis Presley first record?
(a) Atlantic
(b) RCA
(c) Sun
7. He asked, 'Why's everybody always pickin' on me?' Who was he?
(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
(b) Charlie Brown
(c) Buster Brown
8. Bobby Darin's 'Mack The Knife,' the one with the knife, was named:
(a) MacHeath
(b) MacCloud
(c) MacNamara
9. Name the song with 'A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.'
(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly
(b) Be-Bop-A-Lula
(c) Tutti Fruitti
10. Who is generally given credit for originating the term 'Rock 'N Roll'?
(a) Dick Clark
(b) Wolfman Jack
(c) Alan Freed
11. In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:
(a) Little Richard
(b) Frankie Lymon
(c) Tony Orlando
12. Paul Anka's 'Puppy Love' is written to what star?
(a) Brenda Lee
(b) Connie Francis
(c) Annette Funicello
13. The Everly Brothers are...
(a) Pete and Dick
(b) Don and Phil
(c) Bob and Bill
14. The Big Bopper's real name was...
(a) Jiles P. Richardson
(b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
(c) Marion Michael Morrison
15. In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr., started a small record company called...
(a) Decca
(b) Cameo
(c) Motown
16. Edd Brynes (the first one) had a hit with 'Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb' on what TV show?
(a) 77 Sunset Strip
(b) Hawaiian Eye
(c) Surfside Six
17. In 1960 Bobby Darin married:
(a) Carol Lynley
(b) Sandra Dee
(c) Natalie Wood
18. They were a one hit wonder with 'Book Of Love'...
(a) The Penguins
(b) The Monotones
(c) The Moonglows
19. The Everly Brothers sang a song called 'Till I _____ You.'
(a) Loved
(b) Kissed
(c) Met
20. Chuck Berry sang 'Oh, ______, why can't you be true?'
(a) Suzie Q
(b) Peggy Sue
(c) Maybelline
21. 'Wooly ______'
(a) Mammouth
(b) Bully
(c) Pully
22. 'I'm like a one-eyed cat . . .
(a) can't go into town no more
(b) sleepin' on a cold hard floor
(c) peepin' in a seafood store
23. 'Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do . . . '
(a) cause there ain't no answer for a life without booze
(b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
(c) cause my car's gassed up and I'm ready to cruise
24. 'They often call me Speedo, but my real name is ____'
(a) Mr. Earl
(b) Jackie Pearl
(c) Milton Berle
25. 'You're my Fanny and nobody else's ____'
(a) girl
(b) butt
(c) love
26. 'I want you to play with my ____ '
(a) heart
(b) dreams
(c) ding a ling
27. 'Be Bop A Lula ...'
(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
(c) she loves me, maybe
28. 'Fine Love, Fine Kissing ... '
(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
(c) just for you
29. 'He wore black denim trousers and ... '
(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
(c) motorcycle boots
30. 'I got a gal named . . . '
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney
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Comments
2.b
3.a
4.c
5.a
6.c
7.b
8.a (though I thought they were saying "heat" or something)
9.c
10.b
11.b
12.c
13.b
14.b
15.c
16.a
17. b
18.b
19.b
20.c
21.b
22.c
23.b
24.a
25.a
26.c
27.b
28.c
29.a
30.c
Um...I was born in '77, so some of them were pretty hard. The first ones were fairly easy, though. I didn't look them up or watch the video first.
Good quiz!
Since you love this kind of music so well, can I recommend that you go onto youtube and search The Crystals Da Doo Run Run. There is a live performance from the early sixties there that is just so great. It's unbelievable how much fun the group is having and you can tell they feel like they have discovered the musical equivalent of electric light.
I wonder if others' answers should go in a graph with commas, e.g. your answers would look like this: 1.c, 2.b, 3.a, 4.c, 5.a, 6.c, 7.b, etc. Else, this will be the longest scrolling post in history.
Sally, Another photo and another hair color?! I love your writing, but how many people are you??? I like the blonde closeup I first saw of you best! :o)
No. 29 -- "that fool was the terror of Highway 101" is the last line of that song, but for the bonus, name both groups that charted it.
Rated, Sally, for a Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins gooooood time.
1-c; 2-b; 3-a; 4-c; 5-a; 6-c; 7-b; 8-a; 9-c; 10-c; 11-a; 12-b; 13-b; 14-a; 15-c; 16-a; 17-b; 18-b; 19-b; 20-c; 21-b; 22-c; 23-b; 24-a; 25-b; 26-c;
27-b; 28-c; 29-c; 30-c. There. :)
Not 100% for sure, but there it is. I love this stuff!
I missed 1, 18,19 and maybe 28.
Will double check later on the weekend...need to finish mopping up here at the burger stand, wax the '54 Chev and get ready for the big movie at the drive-in.
Walter, as you may have seen from my comment, young Delia did well but has a couple wrong.
libertarius, yo, right back atcha and ditto. I watched that Crystals one while I was trolling for a collection. It's hypnotic and exciting, you're right.
Carol, let's just say we're "mature" and we have older siblings who played all those songs around us. Can we just leave it at that? The first blonde closeup is the most recent (less than a year), though the hair is longer and not so blonde now, thank you. I just keep playing with looks and pics, this one is a good 5-6 years old but was on the first OS collage and though darker and younger, is also me. What can I say? (Crap, I've said enough).
B1, so glad you enjoyed and OMG I don't know the answer to your quiz addition.
Owl, on behalf of all those you just mocked, fuck you. JUST KIDDING!! When you get a little older, stuff will slip out that you really didn't mean...
AJ, damn, you're good. Not sure you're perfect though....
tombop, based on your name alone, I'd guess you like this era. Unless you're a fan of Barney....
Julie, sorry, please don't puke on the blog, k?
Just posting these because I want to be picked for the OS oldies team! I can also name that tune in three notes!
1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c, 5-a, 6-c, 7-b, 8-a, 9-c, 10-c, 11-b, 12-c, 13-b, 14-a, 15-c, 16-a, 17-b, 18-b, 19-c, 20-c, 21-b, 22-c, 23-b, 24-a, 25-a, 26-c, 27-b, 28-a, 29-c, 30-c
I look forward to your results post so I can check out how I did.
2.b
3.a (please)
4.c
5.a
6.c
7.b
8.a (total guess)
9.c
10.c
11.a
12.c
13.b (Pete and Dick...c'mon)
14.c (total guess)
15.a
16.a
17.a
18.a
19.b
20.c
21.b
22.a
23.b
24.a
25.a
26.c
27.b
28.a
29.c
30.c
It's cheating to look them up!
Bonus question: What language was Max The Knife originally written in? (Winner gets a free Timco slicer/dicer/home circumcision kit)
1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c, 5-a, 6-c, 7-b, 8-a, 9-c, 10-c, 11-a, 12-c, 13-b, 14-a, 15-c, 16-a, 17-b, 18-b, 19-b, 20-c, 21-b, 22-c, 23-b, 24-a, 25-a, 26-c, 27-b, 28-c, 29-a, 30-c
11.(b) 12. (a) 13. (b) 14.(a) 15. (c) 16. (a) 17. (b) 18. (b)
19. (b) 20. (c) 21. (b) 22. ??? 23. (b) 24. (a) 25. (a) 26. (c)
27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (c) 30. (c)
The older I get the more I love doo-wop - because it was the first pop music I was aware of? My "The Platters" Pandora station is my most frequently played work music and damn I'm old.
Note to Sally: You didn't say I couldn't play that one
Roger, how do we *know* you got um all? You whisper your answers to Tom and he call tell us.
Btw, *I* didn't know them all. What, you think I made this quiz up myself? No way, jose. But I did check on the answers.
annette, you can be on any team of mine, whether you get em all right or not!
Stellaa, what? What did I do wrong now?? Jeez, I can't win. Are we talkin about do-do? Oy.
Steve, you do the snob thing so well I'm giving you an "A." Also because I know that'll piss you off. ;)
Walter, over the weekend, I promise, full disclosure.
Dakini, did you have trouble following directions in class too? heh
Tijo, what a great Little Richard story! "She remembers her mother telling him to quit all that screaming and get the hell off her porch." Wowser. (Although I have to agree, I was never a big Little Richard fan. Um, so to speak.
latethink, Tijo gave it away with "Max" the Knife instead of Mac...
Lea, I hope you at least had time to watch the video. Though it was frustrating, I wanted to hear MORE of every song. Come home soon, where are you anyway?
nerd cred, me too. I remember a lot of these songs from my older sister (in fact she sent me this quiz), but we love watching the Doo Wop shows on PBS and saying, "Look at all those OLD people in the audience!"
Tom, of course you'd get 100%, why'd you think I eliminated you? But you can sing a medly for us, that would be way cool.
Hey, where's Lonnie???
AND REMEMBER, NO RATING, NO WINNING!! Who needs to be kept after school???
Sealed with a guess. ;-D
uh....going by the rules is not my specialty. I just gotta be me!
Uh-oh. I'd better make sure I rate this or you'll send the
"Sally Squad" after me!
11=b, 12=c, 13=b, 14=a, 15=c, 16=a, 17=b, 18=a, 19=b
20=a, 21=b, 22=c, 23=b, 24=b, 25=a, 26=c, 27=b, 28=a
29=a, 30=c
717judie, if you're out of energy before 1am, I'll assume you're um, mature enough to know the answers...
Dakini, no worries, the "Sally Squad" is on maneuvers this weekend, not available for individual missions.
Stellaa, I'm so relaxed I was kidding too. Score!
JK, hmm, a green approach to online white space, what a concept! You could win on that alone. But still no, you can't change to Lea's answers, you sly puss.
Blackflon, you seem to be well versed in the Oldies Oeuvre...
~~~AHEM: IS THIS THING ON? ... WHO'S NOT RATING? GWOOL WILL BE AT YOUR DOOR SOON TO 'REMIND' YOU~~~
Rub it in. Nice way to treat the elderly. Seriously, I wonder about this all the time because I was only 4 or 5 when some of the songs I love most were popular. Maybe my parents listened it.
The songs that stand out from my own personal radio listening are Paul Anka's "Lonely Boy", and, well, I honest to god don't remember the names of the other two ... the name Gene Somebody ... the song was about a mean or cruel town and the one about the War of 1812, Louisiana and Stonewall Jackson. (How weird that there was a pop song about that.) I can hear them both very indistinctly in the back of my head ... and, I think it was "Teen Angel". Didn't she die in a car crash ... so old, so sad.
oooh oooh!! Town Without Pity, Gene Pitney.
Sally Swift
May 16, 2009 12:40 PM
Sally, I am 65 and have a whole collection of Doo-Wop. There were a couple that stumped me though so I just guessed.
Blackflon, you're a bit ahead of me but since you lived in Philly and 'Sout Joisey' we are as one. Just ask Beth Mann.
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. a
6. c
7. b
8. a
9. a
10. c
11. a
12. a
13. b
14. a
15. c
16. a
17. b
18. b
19. b
20. c
21. b
22. c
23. b
24. a
25. a
26. c
27. b
28. c
29. c
30. c
How's that Ms. Swift?