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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #256 - 1/11/06

1976 - 30 Years Ago

Answers

1. What Bee Gees hit from 1976 later turned up on their "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack?: "You Should Be Dancing"
2. This Stevie Wonder double album released in September 1976 ultimately spent thirteen weeks at Number One. What was it?
: "Songs in the Key of Life"
3. Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr. had an instrumental hit with a TV theme that was used by a gymnast in the 1976 Summer Olympics. The song was retitled as what?
: "Nadia's Theme"
4. Speaking of TV themes, which of these TV shows did not have its theme song rise to Number One on the charts in 1976: "Happy Days," "SWAT," or "Welcome Back, Kotter?"
: "Happy Days"
5. This English composer, whose name sounds like his country's name and who once wrote a children's opera based on the Noah's Ark story called "Noye's Fludde," died on December 4, 1976.
: Benjamin Britten (I played a skunk in a 1974 production of "Noye's Fludde.")
6. They debuted on the charts in 1976 with "Crazy On You" and also had a hit with "Magic Man."
: Heart
7. She was a Supreme in the 60s, but died young at age 32 in February 1976. Who was she?
: Florence Ballard
8. Martin Scorsese filmed this group in their final concert on November 25, 1976, later releasing the film as "The Last Waltz."
: The Band
9. Both Chicago and KC and the Sunshine Band had Number One hits in 1976. What were they?
" "If You Leave Me Now" and "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty."
10. This Atlanta rapper's first single, "What's Your Fantasy," was a list of funny places to have sex - probably something he wasn't thinking about when he was born on September 11, 1976.
: Ludacris
11. A comedy record about disco that everyone took wayyyy too seriously, "Disco Duck," hit Number One on the charts for this radio DJ.
: Rick Dees
12. He "came alive" in 1976 with "Do You Feel Like We Do," a fourteen-minute song featuring a talkbox solo.
: Peter Frampton
13. Paul Simon encouraged Jack to slip out the back, Stan to make a new plan, and Gus to hop on the bus in this song that spent three weeks at Number One in February 1976.
: "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover"
14. Their 1976 albums included "Destroyer" and "Rock and Roll Over."
: Kiss
15. Paul McCartney and Wings had a hit in 1976 that was almost identically titled to John Travolta's debut hit of that year. What were the titles of both songs?
: "Let 'Em In" and "Let Her In"
16. In February 1976, a greatest hits album was the first album in history to be certified platinum - whose greatest hits were they?
: The Eagles.
17. We said "good grief" when this jazz pianist beloved for his music associated with the Peanuts specials died on February 6, 1976.
: Vince Guaraldi

Bonus: On December 3, 1976, an inflatable prop being used in a Pink Floyd album cover shoot broke loose from its moorings and flew across the British countryside, disrupting flights in and out of Heathrow Airport. What was the prop?: A helium-filled pink pig!

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