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Ellen Aspinwall (Templar)
Ok girls and boys. Time to put your memory thinking caps on! Here is a 50's music quiz for you. Whoever comes to the Major Mini on Friday, August 11 with the right answers (or most of them), we'll let Alan buy you a drink to toast your awesome memory!! Have at it! (I will have the answers with me)
1950's music questions
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.In Bobby Darin's ''Mack The Knife,'' the one with the knife, was named:
(a) Mac Heath
(b) Mac Cloud
(c) McNamara
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 And 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 were.....
(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 had a hit with ''Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb''. What TV show was he on?
(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) Screwed
(d) 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.''Be Bop A Lula ...''
(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
(c) she loves me, maybe
26.''Fine Love, Fine Kissing .....''
(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
(c) just for you
27.''He wore black denim trousers and .....''
(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
(c) motorcycle boots
28.''I got a gal named..........''
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney
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