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Rock 'n' Roll Trivia (It'll become apparent Edition)

LAST UPDATE: Rest of the answers added.

UPDATED: Some answers added, the still unanswered questions are highlighted, and as Lisa asks, WTF is Nightfly doing posting on his WEDDING NIGHT???? Oh, and I can't believe I didn't think of this song, which I happen to get a kick out of, so I'm throwing in a couple of bonus questions here:

Bonus #1) The judge an the jury sat me in a room. What did they say?

Bonus #2) When I get out of this prison, gonna be forty-five. What will I know?

I'm somewhat beyond 45. But I still remember...

So as I mentioned before, I stayed home from work today. Listened to "Gunfighter Ballads" again on my ride, so I had no new material. Beyond this, I'm exhausted from work, from working on the solar panels this morning, and from general concern about the little bro. Yeah, I'm sure he'll be okay but problems with the ole ticker are never easy on the worry meter. Especially when said little bro is three years younger than I.

Long story short, I got nuthin' new on the 50s and 60s, either R'n'R or C/W. So I'm going to default to the 70s. Which is okay because the 70s are to most of you as the 50s and 60s are to me.

Pardon me while I take another STRANGE INTERLUDE to bestow some praises on you kids of Generation X, or Y, or whichever one it is now. Seriously. I know something, but not a terrible lot, about music from years before I was born, especially from more than 5 years before I was born (essentially, from before the R'n'R era). I know some small bit about Swing and Jazz and such, but not nearly as much as you kids know about 50s and 60 rock and country. My kids were born in the mid-late 80s and know far more about music from 30 years before they were born than I know about the music of the 20s and 30s. My hat's off to you.

[/STRANGE INTERLUDE]

Anyway, in deference to fatigue and concern, I'm going to fall back on an old favorite from high school. I don't know how many questions I'll come up with, but I'm going to start out tough then get progressively easier until it's sledgehammer-to-the-nose obvious.

1) Who was our regimental bhisti? [Angie: Gunga Din - not many people know that Jim Croce set it to music and recorded it]

Okay, that one is not quite fair. Anybody know why? Let's start over:

1) I keep waitin' for my ship to come in, but what happens? [KG: All that ever comes is the tide]

2) My only boss was the clock on the wall, and my only friend never was what? [Upon reflection, I realize that this was worded a bit poorly, so I've revised it] [Answer: My only friend never really was a friend at all]

3) I couldn't bear to wait around for what? [Answer: For all your nighttime lovers to go to where they came]

4) Sometimes at night I think I hear you calling my name. What keeps me going these days? [KG: These dreams keep me going these days]

5) No more cryin' in your lonely room and no more empty nights. Why? [KG: Because tomorrow morning everything will turn out right, and tomorrow's gonna be a brighter day]

6) Who knows how it feels when you lose a dream? [Answer: I'm Walkin' Back to Georgia, she's the only one who knows how it feels when you lose a dream, and how it feels when you dream alone]

7) Snowy nights and Christmas lights and icy windowpanes make me wish what? [KG: That we could be together again]

8) I've learned at times it's best to bend. Why? [Answer: Because if you don't, well, those are the breaks]

9) Who does 130 MPH smiling at the camera? [KG: Rapid Roy, that stock car boy]

10) I lived there about a year and I never once felt at home. Where? [KG: New York, it's not my home]

11) If you'd only send me some money I'll be back on my feet again. Send it in care of the what? [Answer: Send it in care of the Sunday Mission, Box Number Ten]

12) He'll have to be a super guy, or maybe what? [KG: Or maybe a super god]

13) Your silver tongue has turned to clay. What has turned to rust? [Lisa: Your golden rule has turned to rust]

14) I should be sittin' in an air conditioned office in a swivel chair doing what? [KG: Talkin' some trash to the secretary, sayin' "Hey now, mama come on over here..."]

15) If the number on the matchbook is old and faded, where is she living and with whom? [Nightfly: Living in LA with my best old ex-friend Ray]

16) Like the whippoorwill and the baby's cry, what do I have? [Nightfly: I got a song]

17) The bowery got its bums and 42nd Street got who? And what is he? [Nightfly: Big Jim Walker, who happens to be a pool-shootin' son of a gun]

18) If the downtown ladies call him "treetop lover", what do the men call him? [Nightfly: All the men just call him "sir"]

Posted by Ken S at August 4, 2007 09:16 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Rock 'n' Roll Trivia