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- There are a total of 75 general entries. We are selecting 30 for display.
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Wish You Were Here Comes The Sun. Lots of acoustic guitar in both!
Running On Empty Garden. Browne's album was considered a radical departure from his past work, and John's "Empty Garden" will forever haunt all Lennon fans.
Hotel California Dreaming . Musically, "Hotel California" could be classified as Reggae, and "Dreaming" has some of the finest early harmonies.
Ticket to Ride My See-Saw . John Lennon and Justin Hayward...WOW!
Good Lovin' Gone Bad Bad Leroy Brown . Just one of Bad Company's long list of hits, and Croce's first #1 single, and unfortunately the last one that was a hit while he was alive. (Croce died in a plane crash in 1973, along with 4 other members of his band).
Black is Black Magic Woman. Unintentionionally, both Hispanic.
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me and Bobby McGee . Excellent lyrics by Joel and excellent vocals by Joplin.
Light My Fire On High. If you got "Light My Fire", Then ELO instrumental "Fire on High" should fall into place. For ELO fans, this song was a must in concert!
Travelin' Band On The Run . John Fogerty couldn't perform this gold single (or any of his songs for years due to contractual obligations), and what needs to be said about "Band On The Run"?. Hope you enjoyed my quiz!
| I will give you lyrics from each song, in order. You provide the Before and After answer. Each answer may involve two or three songs.
Who could hang a name on you?
So gently swaying through the fairyland of love
And the thought of lovin' you is getting so exciting. | Twisted Music Before and After
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Ruby Tuesday Afternoon Delight. "Ruby Tuesday"- Rolling Stones
"Tuesday Afternoon"- Moody Blues
"Afternoon Delight"- Starland Vocal Band (a one-hit wonder!)
| Example: Member of Wham! who might have recorded "Thriller" = George Michael Jackson.
Ready? Here's your first one:
1973 Pink Floyd album which could have had a song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's". | Musical Before and After
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Dark Side of the Moon River. "Dark Side of the Moon" was released in March 1973 and was on US Billboard's Top 200 chart for 741 weeks, the longest time of any album in history. It is also the album that is said to synch up with "The Wizard of Oz" (though I've never checked this out for myself).
"Moon River", composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer in 1961, was sung by Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"(1961). The song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
| What do you get when you cross a 1983 Cyndi Lauper hit with a 1964 Beach Boys tune about a girl in a T-bird? | Musical Before and After
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun Fun Fun . "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was on Cyndi Lauper's 1983 debut solo album called "She's so Unusual". The song, written by Robert Hazard, reached Number two on US charts and the music video was MTV "Video of the Year" for 1983.
"Fun, Fun, Fun" was released as a single along with "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" in 1964. The song was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love about Dennis Wilson's relationship with a rich girl who hid their fling from her father.
| What do you get when you combine Pamela Anderson's ex-husband Bob Ritchie's stage name with what is probably the most popular song by the Clash? | More Musical Before and After
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Kid Rock the Casbah. Bob Ritchie, a.k.a. Kid Rock, was born in 1971 and is most known for his albums "Devil Without a Cause"(1998) and "Cocky"(2001). Kid Rock married Pamela Anderson in July 2006. Pam filed for divorce in November 2006.
"Rock the Casbah" is from The Clash's 1982 album "Combat Rock" and was their only top ten hit in the United States. The song was supposedly inspired by the ban on rock music in Iran, under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini.
| A one-hit wonder by ? and the Mysterians and the only number one hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. | Music Before and After
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96 tears of a clown. "Tears of a Clown" was released on an album in 1968. In England in 1970 it was put out as a single where it went to number one; because of this, Motown decided to release it as a single in the US where it also went to number one.
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