'60s

Question 1

The first Motown song to reach the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 is a single by The Marvelettes from 1961 that describes, essentially, a desperate request to a man who holds what occupation?

Answer 1

Postman (“Hey Mr. Postman”)

Question 2

The Four Seasons’ Francis Castelluccio took this stage name.

Answer 2

Frankie Valli

Question 3

Despite the musical reputation of its primary instrumentalist, the 1968 album Unfinished Music No. 1. Two Virgins had a big impact (and is probably best remembered today) due to its cover, which featured its two artists posing fully naked. Name this duo.

Answer 3

John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Question 4

According to John Phillips and Scott McKenzie, what should you wear if you’re going to San Francisco, and where should you wear them?

Answer 4

Flowers, In Your Hair

Question 5

Hailed by some to be the “greatest album of all time,” in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts fifty years after its release.

Answer 5

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Question 6

Creedence Clearwater Revival told her, “I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk.”

Answer 6

Suzie Q

Question 7

In a 1969 hit, Flying Machine told her to “smile a little smile for me.”

Answer 7

Rosemary

Question 8

This song title is what she’ll have “’til her daddy takes the T-Bird away.”

Answer 8

Fun Fun Fun

Question 9

What band, as legend states, were three sisters forced to record a rock album by a domineering father whose late wife had a premonition that her daughters would be rock stars? Their one album, Philosophy of the World, is known for its perceived ineptitude of of all instrumentation and difficulty to listen to. Yet, the album has also been praised for its outright originality of sound. It has been described as “better than the Beatles” by Frank Zappa and listed as a favorite album of Kurt Cobain.

Answer 9

The Shaggs

Question 10

The Moody Blues started out as an R&B cover band much in the same vein as The Rolling Stones, but in 1967 they managed to follow their one hit single (a cover of Bessie Banks’s “Go Now”) with something completely different - a song cycle about the timespan from dawn to a night never reaching the end, recorded with their record label’s in-house orchestra, and featuring pioneering use of a new and notoriously unreliable keyboard instrument called a Mellotron. What is the name of this album?

Answer 10

Days Of Future Passed

Question 11

This founding member of the Rolling Stones, known for his blues background and playing a wide variety of instruments while in the band, died in 1969 by drowning while under the influence of drugs.

Answer 11

Brian Jones

Question 12

This man served as the Rolling Stones second guitarist from 1969-75. He left the band after feeling his creative contributions were not being recognized.

Answer 12

Mick Taylor

Question 13

You put both arms up across your face/ Your knees start wiggling all over the place/ You flap your arms and your feet start kicking/ Then you know you’re doing – what?

Answer 13

The Funky Chicken

Question 14

This band’s only #1 hit in the US was “Wild Thing.”

Answer 14

The Troggs

Question 15

Name any of the three bands of which David Crosby, Stephen Stills, or Graham Nash were members of most immediately prior to their eponymous debut release as a trio in 1969.

Answer 15

The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Hollies

Question 16

In 1968 and 1969, two now-legendary country music live albums were released, by the same artist, with titles preceded by the artist’s name and starting with the preposition At. Give a location where either of these albums were recorded, per their titles.

Answer 16

(Johnny Cash at) Folsom Prison, San Quentin

Question 17

Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and CSNY opened a free concert on December 6, 1969 that had been billed as “Woodstock West.” Who was the headliner?

Answer 17

“Woodstock West” didn’t turn out as well as its carefree predecessor. The concert was held at Altamont, and the Rolling Stones headlined, and the Hells Angels security stabbed a guy.

Question 18

What was music legend Patsy Cline’s first #1 song on Billboard magazine’s country music singles chart, the title of which describes what she does “each time I see you again”?

Answer 18

I Fall To Pieces

Question 19

Musician Dick Dale, who passed away in March at the age of 81, and whose biggest hit song was 1963’s “Misirlou”, was known as “The King of” what type of guitar? This sobriquet was referenced in the title and opening track from his second studio album, also from 1963.

Answer 19

Surf Guitar

Question 20

What record label, founded in 1968, used a logo inspired by the work of Rene Magritte?

Answer 20

One of Magritte’s most famous surrealist paintings, The Son of Man, is a portrait with the head obscured by a big floating green apple. Paul McCartney now says this is the image that inspired the naming and branding of Apple Records.

Question 21

The title of what 1964 hit song, by California surf rock duo Jan and Dean, references a particularly dangerous stretch of road (allegedly, a portion of Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills just west of Whittier Drive)?

Answer 21

Dead Man’s Curve

Question 22

A 1965 single by the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, has a title made up of two complete, three-word sentences (the latter in parentheses). Give either of these first-person sentences in the title of this song, Brown’s highest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 at #3.

Answer 22

I Got You (I Feel Good)

Question 23

1960’s Grammy for Song of the Year went to Ernest Gold for his theme to this movie about the founding of Israel

Answer 23

Exodus

Question 24

Bruce Springsteen’s was “to Run”, Lana Del Rey’s was “to Die”, and Albert King’s was “under a Bad Sign”. What was the parallel 1968 Steppenwolf phrase?

Answer 24

Born to Be Wild