Author Topic: Pop quiz (Read 175159 times)

PaulF · « **Reply #475 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:02:03 pm »

Quote from: MSeries on 24 January, 2010, 06:53:00 pm

Right song, wrong artist.

I am looking for the person who sung it originally, Kris Kristofferson did write it but someone else had a hit with it before he did. Not Janice Joplin.

PaulF would lose a point for spelling if he'd got the answer right

I initially wrote it with 'K's but it looked wrong so I changed to 'C's but still got it wrong. More embarrassing because I've just read the mini-piece in OMM as well

So make that 2 points. Just cheated and surprised by the answer

jogler · « **Reply #476 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:06:44 pm »

Dolly Parton?

MSeries · « **Reply #477 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:07:39 pm »

Not Dolly Parton

rogerzilla · « **Reply #478 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:10:45 pm »

Tammy Wynette

/desperately thinks of another C&W singer of suitable vintage

MSeries · « **Reply #479 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:11:48 pm »

No. Do you want a clue ?

jogler · « **Reply #480 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:36:11 pm »

Is it male or female artist?

Redlight · « **Reply #481 on:** 24 January, 2010, 07:45:22 pm »

The answer is lurking somewhere in my subconscious but I am avoiding taking the obvious route. In the meantime, the question has reminded me of a very good pastiche that the comedian Peter Buckley Hill recorded in the '80s. The bits I can remember are:

On the dole in Dunsable and waiting for a bus
Feeling nearly faded as my jeans
Sharon thumbed a mini down with room enough for us
Took us all the way to Milton Keynes
I pulled my old kazoo out from my stonewashed denim jacket
And blew it down the wrong way for a laugh
With the windscreen wipers falling off and Sharon with a nasty cough
We sounded like John Denver in the bath

Freedom's just another word that politicians use
To justify three million out of work
[can't remember next lines]
...good enough for me and Sharon McGurk

From the Newport Pagnell Services down to the Watford Gap
Sharon shared the secrets of my soul
When I'd finished talking she said "what a load of crap.
Pass the Rizlas, I could use a roll"
And somewhere south of Coventry I let her slip away
With some Hell's Angel on a Yamaha
And then I realised as soon as I wrote down that line
That's not a motorbike, it's a guitar

etc etc.

He also did several other good pastiches, including "Morning Has Broken (Too Bloody Early) and I was a Tennis Racket Shadow. Still gigging and highly recommended

Bluebottle · « **Reply #482 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:00:17 pm »

Of which reminds me of Billy Bragg's lines in the Marching Song of the Covert Batallions, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to sell" which was oft followed up in gigs with, "and if you want Peter Beardsley, we can get you him aswell."

On topic, it's not someone like Cliff, is it?

Redlight · « **Reply #483 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:03:21 pm »

Johnny Cash - or is this pre Highwaymen?

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #484 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:03:31 pm »

Bobby Gentry?

Redlight · « **Reply #485 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:13:57 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 24 January, 2010, 08:03:31 pm

Bobby Gentry?

Wow. That's a blast from the past. Whatever happened to her?

jogler · « **Reply #486 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:15:49 pm »

I lost touch with her following her rejection of my marriage proposal.
Her loss

Basil · « **Reply #487 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:18:42 pm »

Oh hell. This one's killing me. Of course I know who it is. It's..... erm... hang on......I know this....it will come in a minute

jogler · « **Reply #488 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:22:48 pm »

Gordon Lightfoot or some bloke whose surname is Miller? Can't remember the latter's forename

Basil · « **Reply #489 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:25:38 pm »

You're probably thinking of Roger Millar. No not him.

I think he went on to be a success in African football

Redlight · « **Reply #490 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:26:38 pm »

Please, not Roger Whittaker

Blade · « **Reply #491 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:35:44 pm »

Tom Paxton ?

MSeries · « **Reply #492 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:37:18 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 24 January, 2010, 08:25:38 pm

You're probably thinking of Roger Millar. No not him.

I think he went on to be a success in African football

Oooh, we got a corner. Erm you can have 1 point. It's Roger Miller,

Redlight · « **Reply #493 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:43:08 pm »

The original King of The Road - Very appropriate for a cycling forum

Basil · « **Reply #494 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:46:12 pm »

Bugger.

jogler · « **Reply #495 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:47:39 pm »

Paging Mr. Regulator.
Mr. Regulator to the white phone please

citoyen · « **Reply #496 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:51:36 pm »

Quote from: RobM on 24 January, 2010, 08:13:57 pm

Whatever happened to her?

Jumped off the Tallahassee bridge.

Kirst, have you been reading my mind? First you nick my idea for a question (songs without the title in the lyrics) then you go and beat me to the answer I was about to give to MSeries's question.

d.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #497 on:** 24 January, 2010, 08:57:35 pm »

I started to read your mind, but it was just bikes and NSFW!

citoyen · « **Reply #498 on:** 24 January, 2010, 09:02:01 pm »

OK, what number am I thinking of now?

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #499 on:** 24 January, 2010, 09:06:49 pm »