Ipod Shuffle 28: 1980s Billboard Top 100 Part 3 Quiz

Answer: Thriller

"Rock With Me" become one of the first Billboard Top 100 number one singles of the 1980s, and was the fourth highest selling single of 1980. Rod Temperton wrote three songs of Jackson on his 1982 album "Thriller": "Baby Be Mine", "Thriller", and "The Lady in My Life".

He also wrote three songs from the 1979 album "Off the Wall": the aforementioned "Rock With Me", the title cut "Off the Wall", and "Burn this Disco Out".

Answer: Trisha Yearwood

Roseanne Cash's single "Seven Year Ache" hit Number One on the Billboard Country chats and hit Number Twenty Two on the Top 100, proving a substantial cross-over hit. In 2001, Trisha Yearwood recorded the song for her album "Inside Out" with Cash.

Answer: Tom Petty

Nicks wrote the song in response to her uncle Jonathan's death and John Lennon's assassination in 1980. They died within a week of each other. When Nicks met Tom Petty's wife Jane, Jane told Nicks that her and Petty met at the age of seventeen. Due to Jane's strong accent, Nicks misheard and thought she said at the "edge of seventeen".

Answer: Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones, Jackson's producer, vehemently disliked "Billie Jean", and did not think it was strong enough to be on the album. Jackson insisted the track to be on the album, and the rest is history. Jackson said: "A musician knows hit material. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. That's how I felt about 'Billie Jean'. I knew it was going to be big when I was writing it."

"Billie Jean" became one of the biggest hits of 1983. Bruce Swedien mixed the song ninety one times before Jackson was satisfied.

Answer: Someone To Talk To

"Wrapped Around Your Finger" was the fourth single from the band's "Synchronicity" album to chat on the Billboard Top 100, peaking at Number Eight. Two studio tracks were recorded during the album sessions and issues as B-sides: "Someone to Talk To" and "Once Upon a Daydream". The band also released a live recording of the song ""Tea in the Sahara (Live)"

Answer: A View to a Kill

"A View to a Kill" proved to be the biggest hit of the James Bond theme songs. This was also the last recording by all five original members of Duran Duran for over sixteen years, splitting shortly after they made the recording and reuniting in 2001. They also played the song at Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985.

Answer: A Call to Arms

Mike Rutherford is one of the founding members of Genesis. During sessions for the 1983 album "Genesis", the band recorded "A Call to Arms". The band did not use the track, and when Rutherford did his side-project, he obtained permission to resurrect the song for his side project album from fellow Genesis band members Phil Collins and Tony Banks.

Answer: Sign "☮" the Times

In 1986, Prince, who is famous for the enormous amount of unreleased material he has recorded, recorded an album called "Dream Factory" with his band The Revolution, and also did a solo project called "Camille". He merged the projects together, and in 1987 wanted to release a three LP set called "Crystal Ball". All three albums are unreleased in their original format.

His record company, Warner Bros., balked at the idea of a three LP set, so Prince reconfigured the record and released the double album "Sign "☮" the Times"

Answer: Clive Davis

Houston did not intially want to record "Where Do Broken Hearts Go". Aristra Records CEO Clive Davis told Whitney he thought the single would go to Number One if she recorded it. On his advice she recorded the track.

Davis was right. Both The Beatles and The Bee Gees had six consecutive number one singles. "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" gave Houston her seventh consecutive number one single, breaking the record.

Answer: Anything for You

"Don't Wanna Lose You" came from her 1989 album "Cuts Both Ways". "Cuts Both Ways" the first studio album credited to Estefan as a solo artist. Her first Number One hit was "Anything for You" from the 1987 album "Let It Loose"