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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #239 - 9/21/05

...Don't Run

Answers

1. The first major rap superstar group: Run-DMC
2. A Number One hit for Roy Orbison in 1961
: "Running Scared"
3. Believe it or not, boxer Oscar de la Hoya recorded this Bee Gees song in 2000
: "Run To Me"
4. Kate Bush's only hit in the United States
: "Running Up That Hill"
5. Dion hit Number One with this in 1961; a remake by Leif Garrett hit the charts in 1978
: "Runaround Sue"
6. His two biggest hits are "I Saw The Light" and "Hello, It's Me"
: Todd Rundgren
7. The same person's third biggest hit was "We Gotta Get You A Woman," recorded under this name
: Runt
8. Bryan Adams and Whitney Houston had hits with different songs with this same title
: "Run To You"
9. A Jerry Garcia Band album that shares its title with a Dan Fogelberg hit about the Kentucky Derby
: "Run For The Roses"
10. "I wonder, I wa wa wa wa wonderrrrr..."
: "Runaway"
11. Blues Traveler's signature song
: "Runaround"
12. Overwrought 1975 story song in which a girl's father accidentally shoots her while aiming for her boyfriend
: "Run Joey Run"
13. 1960 Johnny Preston novelty hit that spoofs Romeo and Juliet in a Native American setting
: "Running Bear"
14. This hit by Soul Asylum featured a video that spotlighted missing children
: "Runaway Train"
15. Jackson Browne recorded this album on the road during his 1977 tour
: "Running On Empty"
16. Jo Jo Gunne's only chart hit, from 1972:
" Run Run Run"
17. A Celtic-sounding hit for Slade in 1984
: "Run Runaway"

Bonus: When John Fogerty was sued, unsuccessfully, for plagiarizing himself, the prosecuters complained that his "The Old Man Down The Road" sounded too much like this Creedence Clearwater Revival song: "Run Through The Jungle"

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