Grooving To The Beat Trivia Quiz

Answer: The System

"Pay attention, are you listening?
You're my favorite girl.
Excuse me for the moment.
I'm in another world.
(On a mountain,) by a fountain.
Flowers blooming everywhere.
With venus and cupid, the picture's very clear.
Hang the sign upon the door, say:
Don't disturb this groove."

The System were Mic Murphy and David Frank, and they wrote the song.
In "The Billboard Book of #1 R&B Hits" David Franks said: "I worked on a musical track for two or three days, and I remember thinking, 'Why am I spending so much time on this? I don't know whether it's going to be good, it's a little bit too jazzy, and I'm probably making a mistake.' But I couldn't stop myself. I kept working on this track. I had the verse and the chorus of the song. I had all the parts you hear on the record. [Mic Murphy] came over and said the bridge should be the chorus, have it go 'round twice. So I did and gave it to him and he came back with the title and the idea for the melody. We added a bridge a couple of weeks later and added a counter-melody."
"Don't Disturb This Groove" was a Billboard R&B number one and Hot 100 number four in 1987.

Answer: Madonna

"Get into the groove
Boy you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah
Get up on your feet, yeah
Step to the beat
Boy what will it be."

"Into The Groove" was written by Madonna and Stephen Bray. It appeared in the 1985 movie "Desperately Seeking Susan", in which Madonna starred.
The song reached number one on the Official UK Singles charts and although it was not released as an 'A' side in the USA, it got a lot of radio airplay. The "A" side, "Angel" reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

Answer: Justin Timberlake

"Are you comfortable right there, right there?
Let the groove get in there, there, right there..."

At something over seven minutes long, this was a lengthy record for a single.
In a radio interview, Timberlake later said: "When we were making the record I said: 'If Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin can do 10-minute songs and Queen can do 10-minute songs then why can't we?' We'll figure out the radio edits later."
Maybe seven minutes and 12 seconds was a bit ambitious; the single failed to reach the main Billiard Hot 100, though it was number nine on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

Answer: Earth Wind & Fire

"Let's groove tonight
Share the spice of life
Baby slice it right
We're gonna groove tonight."

"Let's Groove" was the last of seven Top Ten Billboard hits for Earth Wind & Fire.
In 1981, it was a Billboard Hot 100 number three and topped the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.

Answer: Led Zeppelin

"Hear my baby comin' down the track
Betcha my baby's comin' back
Someday she'll get back to me
We're gonna raise a family

We're gonna groove, Yeah groove
Yeah we're gonna groove."

The song was written by Ben E. King, who does not appear to have recorded it.
It appeared on the Led Zeppelin "Coda" album in 1982 and was regularly played at their concerts.

Answer: Simon and Garfunkel

"Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy
Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy

The song was written about the Queensboro Bridge over the East River in Simon and Garfunkel's native New York City.
The song was not a hit for S&G, though Harpers Bizarre took an uptempo version to number 13 in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.

At a concert in 1966, Paul Simon said:"...I remember coming home in the morning about 6 o'clock over the 59th Street Bridge in New York, and it was such a groovy day really, a good one, and it was one of those times when you know you won't be tired for about an hour, a sort of a good hanging time, so I started to write a song that later became the 59th Street Bridge Song or Feelin' Groovy."
Which neatly brings me to an excruciating faux pas made by an English radio and TV presenter who interviewed Paul Simon and asked how close the songwriting partnership was between Garfunkel and him. Simon replied: "We were not a writing partnership, we didn't write together. He didn't write any of the songs - I wrote all of the songs."
Not knowing when to quit, the presenter asked: "Is that generally known?" To the sound of studio laughter, Simon replied: "I think almost everyone but you." [Interview clip available on web: search for Annie Nightingale+Paul Simon interview.]

Answer: Average White Band

"We didn't come around here to sit around and mope, no no
We didn't come around here to sit like this and lookin' bored
We came down here to party
That's what we're gonna do
Groovin' the night away
Groovin' the night away."

The Average White Band (aka AWB) were a Scottish rhythm and blues combo that attracted something of a cult following between 1973 and 1982.
"Groovin' the Night Away" was the 'B' side of "School Boy Crush", which reached number 33 in the Billboard Hot 100 I 1975. The previous year they topped the Hot 100 with "Pick Up The Pieces".

Answer: Peaches & Herb

"Shake it, shake it
Shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show 'em how we do it now
Shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah
Show 'em how we do it now, show 'em how we do it now."

Peaches and Herb were the duo Herb Feemster and Linda Greene (she was the second 'Peaches", Herb had initially sung with Francine Barker.)
"Shake Your Groove Thing" was a Billboard Hot 100 number five in 1975 and reached number two on the Billboard Disco chart.

Answer: Phil Collins

"When I'm feelin' blue
All I have to do is take a look at you
Then I'm not so blue
When you're close to me
I can feel you heart beat
I can hear you breathing in my ear
Wouldn't you agree
Baby, you and me got a groovy kind of love."

"Groovy Kind Of Love" was written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager and first released as a single by Diane & Annita in 1965. At the time Sager was a 22-year-old high school teacher and Wine was then aged 17 and still at school.
Wine later said: "We were talking about 'Groovy' being the new word. The only song we knew of was "59th Street Bridge Song", Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. You know, 'Feelin' groovy.' And we knew we wanted to write a song with that word in it. Because we knew it was the happening word, and we wanted to jump on that. Carole came up with 'Groovy kinda... groovy kinda... groovy...' and we're all just saying, 'Kinda groovy, kinda groovy, kinda...' I don't exactly know who came up with 'love,' but it was 'Groovy kind of love.' And we did it. We wrote it in 20 minutes."
The Mindbenders, an English group, had a UK and US hit with the song in 1965, but in 1988 Phil Collins took it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles charts. It was also a number one in Canada, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, and Ireland.

Answer: King Floyd

"Uhh! Awww, sookie sookie now!
Hey! Oww, uhh! Come on, baby!
Hey there, Sugar Darling,
Let me tell you something
Girl, I've been trying to say, now.
You look so sweet,
And you're so doggone fine.
I just can't get you out of my mind.
You've become a sweet taste in my mouth, now.
And I want you to be my spouse,
So that we can live happily, nah-nah,
In a great big ol' roomy house.
And I know you're gonna groove me, baby."

"Groove Me" was released in 1970 and was a Billboard Hot 100 number six.
Initially released as a 'B' side to "What Our Love Needs", "Groove Me" began to get the greater volume of radio playtime.