Blues Standards III

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1. What Big Joe Turner song contains these lyrics? "Come in this house, stop all that yackety yack. Come in this house, stop all that yackety yack. Come fix my supper, don't want no talkin' back." Shake, Rattle and Roll Yackety Yak You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) Honey Hush

2. Big Mama Thornton had a big hit with this song that was also a hit for Elvis Presley. What song had these lyrics in Thornton's version? "You told me you was high class, but I can see through that. Yes, you told me you was high class, but I can see through that. And daddy I know you ain't no real cool cat." Ball 'n Chain Hound Dog Heartbreak Hotel Just Like a Dog, Barkin' Up the Wrong Tree

3. What Louisiana by way of Texas bluesman had a hit with "Okie Dokie Stomp?" Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown "Cripple" Clarence Lofton Clarence "Frogman" Henry Clarence "Gulf Coast" Williams

4. What Big Bill Broonzy classic goes in the blank in these lyrics? "I got the _______, and I'm billed out and bound to go. I'm gonna leave here runnin', cause walkin' is most too slow." White Line Fever Bull Cow Blues Brown Skin Shuffle Key to the Highway

5. What Lowell Fulson song begins with these lines? "So long, oh how I hate to see you go. So long, oh how I hate to see you go. And the way that I will miss you, I guess you will never know." Reconsider Baby Check Yourself Trouble, Trouble When the Cows Come Home in the Evenin'

6. Whose big hit was "Mojo Hand?" Shuggie Otis Drink Small Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams Lightnin' Hopkins

7. Which of the following is NOT associated with Howlin' Wolf? Little Red Rooster Spoonful Two Hundred Pounds of Joy Moanin' at Midnight

8. Which Albert King song has these lyrics? "I been down since I began to crawl. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all. Hard luck and trouble is my only friend. I been on my own ever since I was ten." I'll Play the Blues for You Talking Hard Luck Blues C.O.D. Born Under a Bad Sign

9. "If you ever go to Houston, you better walk right, you better not stagger, you better not fight. Sheriff Benson will arrest you, he'll carry you down. And if the jury finds you guilty, you're penitentiary bound" are from what Leadbelly song? Linin' Track Rock Island Line Midnight Special Folsom Prison

10. What goes in the blanks, which is also the title of a Robert Lockwood Jr. song, in these lyrics? "Come on, baby, ______________, to the same old place, where we long to be." Take a Walk With Me Go Away With Me You Got the Key Ride With Old Leelee

11. Who is the white harmonica player with some Native American ancestry who recorded the song "Help Me" with his Southside Blues Band? "Blue" Lou Marini Charlie Musselwhite Robert K. Weiss Mac Rebennack

12. "Well I'm sitting in la la, waiting for my __ ___, uh huh. I'm sitting in la la, waiting for my __ __, uh huh. It may sound funny but I don't believe she's coming, uh huh." Who or what was Sonny Terry waiting for? Ya Ya Na Na Ma Ma Bernice

13. Which Chicago blues guitarist had a hit with "Easy Baby" in the late 1950s? Louisiana Red Homesick James Gitfiddle Jim Magic Sam

14. What Jimmy Reed song are these lyrics from? "Going up, going down, got me up, down, down, up, anyway you want to let it roll." You've Got Me Dizzy Ain't That Loving You Baby Elevator Blues Baby What You Want Me to Do

15. Whose real name was Lizzie Douglas; she had a hit with "Bumble Bee" in 1929? Koko Taylor Memphis Minnie "Ma" Rainey Marcia Ball