Ipod Shuffle 29: 1980s Billboard Top 100 Part 4 Quiz

Answer: Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)

Romeo's Tune proved to be Forbett's most substantial hit on the charts. At the time, the critics hailed him as the new Bob Dylan, an idea Forbett dismissed as cliche.

According to Forbett: "You can't pay any attention to that. It was just a cliche back then, and it's nothing I take seriously. I'm off the hook -- I don't have to be smarter than everybody else and know all the answers like Bob Dylan."

Answer: All Those Years Ago

Harrison wrote "All Those Years Ago" for Ringo Starr with different lyrics. Starr did not like the words and felt the song was beyond his range. After the murder of Lennon, Harrison rewrote the song about Lennon. It was the last recording before the 1994 recordings of "Real Love" and "Free as a Bird" to feature where three of the Beatles were on the same recording.

Answer: Six Pack

"Love Will Turn You Around" went to Number One on the Billboard Top 100. The song was the theme to film "Six Pack", a Kenny Rogers vehicle. Daniel Petrie directed the film. He also directed "Cocoon: The Return". Rogers has charted over sixty Top 40 hits, and has twenty five Number One singles to his credit.

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Elliot has said numerous times on stage and in interviews "Photograph" is about Marilyn Monroe. Elliot was disappointed the single was not a bigger hit in the UK according to the "Vault" album. The single went to Number One.

Answer: Nobody Told Me

Lennon originally intended Ringo Start to use "Nobody Told Me There's Be Days Like These" for his 1981 album "Stop and Smell the Roses". This was shelved after Mark David Chapman assassinated Lennon on December 8, 1980. In 1984, Yoko Ono issued "Milk and Honey", the followup to the 1980 "Double Fantasy". The song was a top ten hit. One of the lines in the song deal with a UFO sighting Lennon had in 1974. In the 1974 album "Walls and Bridges", Lennon wrote on the album liner notes:

"On the 23rd August 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a U.F.O. - J.L.".

Answer: Tina Turner

The song was inspired by "Broken Wings", a book by Khalil Gibran, and made have some influence from the Beatles song "Blackbird". At the time the single was released, the band was just beginning a US tour as the opening act for Tina Turner.

Answer: Duran Duran

In 1985, Roger Taylor, Nick Rhodes, and Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran recorded the album "So Red the Rose" as a side project under the band moniker Arcadia. This was the only album the band ever recorded.

Answer: Tanya

There are two primary versions of the single. During the film, Fievel becomes seperated from his family. Tanya and Fievel sing this during the film, with the actors providing the voices. Then, during the closing credits, Linda Rondstat and James Ingrahm ofter another professionally sung rendition of the song.

It was the Rondstat-Ingrahm song that became the major hit on the Billboard Top 100. It was one of the very last singles to be released only as a 45 and still prove to be a major hit.

Answer: Bad Medicine

"New Jersey" holds the record for most top ten singles from a hard rock album. "I'll Be There For You" and "Bad Medicine" both went to Number One. The album's other three singles, "Living in Sin", "Born to Be My Baby", and "Lay Your Hands on Me" all broke the Top Ten. Bon Jovi were originally going to release a double album, but due to production costs the record company rejected the idea. A full album's worth of unreleased material was recorded during the "New Jersey" sessions.

Chronologically, Bon Jovi had four number one singles in the 1980s on the Billboard Top 100 in this order: "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer" from the "Slippery When Wet" album, and "Bad Medicine" and "I'll Be There for You" from "New Jersey".

Answer: You Got It (The Right Stuff)

In 1988, New Kids on the Block released the album "Hangin' Tough". The opening track and first single from the record was "The Right Stuff". In 1989, "Hangin' Touch" hit Number One on the Billboard Top 200 album charts, and had five top ten hits with two Number One singles.

In 1988, the band released "The Right Stuff" has a single, though it was retitled "You Got It (The Right Stuff)". The general consensus is the record company changed the title due to Vanessa Williams having a hit with a different song called "The Right Stuff" in 1988.