The Top Hits of 1977 Trivia Quiz

Answer: You Light Up My Life

"You Light Up My Life" was recorded by Debby Boone, the daughter of singer/actor Pat Boone. It was composed by Joe Brooks as the showpiece of a screenplay he wrote with the same title. The song was sung in the movie by one Kacey Cisyk who was the commercial voice for Coca-Cola, Ford and several other major companies and who would go on to be noted for a couple of folk albums she recorded in her native language, Ukrainian. The movie (and the song) was shelved for some time before Brooks finally found a distributor for the film. He wanted to release a single of the song to promote the movie and for some reason, rather than use Cisyk's version, tapped on another unknown, Boone, for the duties. For the record, the song was a far bigger hit than the film.

When Boone won her Grammy, she was asked who it was that "lit up her life" and the deeply religious singer responded "God". This came as quite a shock to Brooks as that was the furthest thought from his mind when he composed it within the context of the movie. Boone never did have another Top 40 pop song but firmly established herself as a singer of Gospel and Inspirational music over the next two decades. Hence, by association, so has the song whether Brooks intended it to be so or not.

Answer: I Just Want To Be Your Everything

Andy Gibb, who recorded this hit, and his Bee Gees brethren were at the zenith of their careers during the late 1970s. Both entities had strings of Top 10 hits with several Number Ones to their credit. Personally speaking, I was pretty neutral to these offerings, enjoyed some, didn't really care for others, but must confess that ten years later, almost all of them merged into one extended soft, pop/disco haze in my memory. I often wonder if it was just me!

Andy's career was meteoric in all respects. After this hit at the age of 19, he would follow up with two more Number One hits in succession. "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" topped the charts for two weeks then "Shadow Dancing", his biggest hit, reigned supreme for seven weeks. He was the first male solo act ever to complete the hat trick - three successive Number One hits and to do it with his first three releases - astonishing! He was the premier pop idol of the day and the world was his oyster. His next three releases were solid Top 10 hits but his next four were not. In fact, they peaked at progressively worse positions on the charts until his final charting effort could manage no better than a dismal Number 51 in 1981. He was washed up at the age of 23.

What went wrong? Probably, in a word... fame! While on top, he pursued a notoriously hedonistic life style starting with booze and progressing to an insatiable appetite for cocaine. He became unreliable, missed concert and recording dates and other personal appearances, thus alienating himself from the power brokers in the business. In vain attempts to salvage his waning career, he co-hosted the TV series "Solid Gold" and pursued some acting opportunities. Meanwhile, the fortunes of the Bee Gees had flattened considerably as well but more due to changing musical tastes than for any other reason. By 1987, a movement was afoot for all four brothers to mount a comeback together as part of a "super" Bee Gees group... provided Andy remained substance free. The dream never reached fruition. Despite successful rehab, years of abuse had taken its toll. His heart considerably weakened, he succumbed to an inflammatory heart virus in 1988, five days after his 30th birthday.

Answer: Love Theme From "A Star Is Born" (Evergreen)

"Evergreen" was co-written by Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams as the centerpiece to Streisand's production of the movie "A Star Is Born". This was the third re-cycling of the movie, the first released in 1937 starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and the second in 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason The original was a classic but Streisand's production was a critical flop. By all accounts, the best thing to come out of the effort was the soundtrack.

It topped the Billboard album chart for six weeks while "Evergreen" garnered the 1976 Oscar for Best Original Song. Kris Kristofferson plays the role of the former star going down the ladder of fame and the love interest of Streisand who's ascending it.

Interestingly, it's been alleged that Streisand wanted Elvis to play the Kristofferson role but Elvis' management team made too many contractual demands to be considered. Pity... it might have been fun to witness Elvis pitching woo to Babs.

Answer: Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

Lots of good distracting leads for this question but the winning answer was recorded by Crystal Gayle. The other "Don't" songs were as follows: "Don't Leave Me This Way" was a disco Number One hit in 1977 for Thelma Houston and the ninth ranked song for 1977; "Don't Give Up On Us" was also a Number One song in 1977, ranking 39th for the year - it was recorded by David Soul of "Starsky and Hutch" fame; "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was a four week Number One song in 1976 by Elton John and Kiki Dee and the 14th ranked song for that year.

Crystal Gayle started her recording career in the early 1970s and received a fair amount of support from her elder sister, Loretta Lynn, although they were born almost a generation apart. Loretta was married and left home before Crystal was even born. Crystal's birth name was Brenda Gail Webb and when she first signed with the Decca label, also Loretta's, she changed her name to avoid confusion with yet another Decca stable mate, Brenda Lee. Choosing her middle name as her surname, she took Crystal because of her fondness for the products of the Krystal hamburger chain. Perhaps best known for her ankle length hair, the talented singer would only have four songs crossover to the pop chart's Top 40 but the 17 Number One singles she scored on the country charts more than compensated. Although she still occasionally records new material and makes the odd concert appearance, her halcyon days were in the 1970s and 1980s. She now devotes much of her time to managing a fine jewelry shop in Nashville, Tennessee specializing in... what else... crystal!

Answer: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

Like Andy Gibb, Leo Sayer had a whirlwind turn at the top before his fortunes declined in that same year of 1981. Unlike him, Sayer is still around and performing.

Sayer got his start in the early 1970s and his success was largely the product of his association with former band mate and collaborator, David Courtney, and the production work of Adam Faith. His first exposure to the American public took place in 1974 when his Number Two U.K. hit "The Show Must Go On" was covered by Three Dog Night and reached Number Four on the Hot 100. His own charting debut in America was with the 1975 Top 10 hit "Long Tall Glasses". It was followed by this hit and another Number One later in the year "When I Need You", the 29th ranked song for 1977. His last big American hit was "More Than I Can Say" in 1980 and he only had one other mediocre charting hit in 1981. His decline in the U.K. was just slightly less precipitous, last charting there in 1983. By then, he had severed his relationship with Courtney and would do the same with Faith in 1985 trying to find a new musical direction that would lead him back to the spotlight. It never happened. By the 1990s, he started to tour Asia regularly and spent more and more time in Australia to be more accessible to this burgeoning market. Now a star in Asia, he finally moved to Sydney fulltime in 2005 where he is recording new material and maintaining close contact with his fan base in Japan, Korea and other Asian countries through regular concert tours.

Answer: Nobody Does It Better

Admittedly, this could be tricky if you didn't heed my warning and blindly selected the false distracter "The Spy Who Loved Me". That was the name of the Bond movie from which the correct answer, "Nobody Does It Better", was the theme song. The other two answers were the titles of Neil Diamond songs from the early 1980s. This sultry song was performed by Carly Simon.

For many of the fans of Bond movies, one of the favorite elements in seeing the latest film was to hear the theme song. I swear that some of those films received lukewarm appraisals from fans because the theme did not pass muster. Certainly this song did and none other than Roger Moore, an authority of sorts on the subject having played Bond for several episodes, considers this the best Bond theme ever. After all, nobody ever did it better than Bond if spying is the game. I'm with Moore... it's my favorite, too. Chart-wise, it was also the biggest hit from a Bond movie up to that point. Both this song and "Live And Let Die" by Paul McCartney were stymied at Number Two for three weeks but the tie breaker would go to charting weeks within the Hot 100. "Nobody Does It Better" is the hands down winner in that respect - 25 weeks to 14 weeks. The biggest charting success from a Bond movie was "A View To A Kill", a two week Number One song by Duran Duran in 1985.

Incidentally, the song was not composed by Carly Simon but by the duo of Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager. It was nominated for an Oscar but lost out to "Evergreen", the song featured in an earlier quiz question. Simon would get her redemption several years later when her own composition "Let The River Run" won the Oscar as the theme song for the movie "Working Girl" in 1988.

Answer: Torn Between Two Lovers

"Torn Between Two Lovers" was a Number One hit on the Adult Contemporary chart late in 1976 before it started its ascent on the Hot 100 chart, finally reaching the apex in February 1977. The lyrics tell of a woman who advises her husband that she is having an affair but that she still loves him and wants him to hang in there until she can sort things out. The final line of the song says it all; "Lovin' both of you is breakin' all the rules".

The artist was Mary MacGregor and there is truly very little to tell about her. Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, she was discovered by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame and eventually joined him as a back-up vocalist on one of his solo tours. I suspect that Yarrow was involved in arranging for her recording contract with the Ariola America label as it is he who co-wrote this song and produced her similarly titled album. After her initial success, she recorded two further non-charting albums and only managed one more Top 40 hit in 1979 before fading into obscurity.

Answer: Car Wash

This hit, of course, was featured in the movie of the same name starring Richard Pryor. Norman Whitfield, the prolific Motown staff writer and producer, was charged with the task of writing the score for the movie. Upon doing so, he knew precisely the group that he wanted to perform it... Rose Royce.

The group was originally founded in L.A. earlier in the decade and was discovered by soul singer Edwin Starr who hired them to back him up. Through their association with Starr, they were introduced to Whitfield who lured them into the Motown stable as the back-up band for Undisputed Truth and, to a lesser degree, The Temptations. At that point, they were known as Magic Wand. Just prior to Whitfield assigning them to record the soundtrack for "Car Wash", the group added female vocalist Gwen Dickey, also known as Rose Norwalt. That's when they officially became Rose Royce.

Fuelled by their success with this project, the group went on to record four more highly successful albums but their single releases didn't have much impact on the Hot 100. By the early 1980s, they had lost their mainstream market and their releases only charted on the minor "Black" Album and Singles charts. After relocating to the U.K. for several years where their popularity never waned, it appears that they've now returned Stateside and carry on with three original members; Kenny Copeland, Henry Garner and Freddie Dunn and a variety of back-up musicians. They continue to record and tour worldwide.

Answer: Dancing Queen

As noted, this was the only Abba song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was also their only song to reach Number One in Canada. I've done a bit of research as to the group's success in other countries and it's clear that the north part of North America was clearly out of step with the rest of the globe in terms of their appreciation for Abba songs. Here's a breakdown of countries with recognized music charts during the Abba years (1974-1982) and the tally of Number One Abba songs for each.

The all-time favorite nation honor goes to Belgium - 16 Number One Abba hits! Ireland - 11 Number One hits; The U.K. and Mexico - 9; The Netherlands and Germany - 8; Australia, South Africa and Switzerland - 7; Sweden - 5; New Zealand - 4; Austria, France and Finland - 3; Norway, Japan and Costa Rica - 2. Canada and the U.S. join Spain, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Hungary with 1. Chart data for South America was unavailable but my research revealed that Abba made a point to release Spanish versions of their songs to that part of the world as well as the Philippines. No doubt, they were immensely popular there also. I wish I could explain why Abba songs didn't do as well in North America as they did elsewhere. Maybe it was a marketing issue or perhaps the collective taste of music styles is that variable globally. I just don't know!

Answer: Hotel California

This was The Eagles fourth Number One song and their sixth consecutive Top 10 hit covering a 28 month period.

The lyrics for this song were actually quite disturbing with reference to being in a place "that could be heaven or it could be hell". Essentially, this Hotel California was a metaphor for the State of California itself. Allusions are made to drugs, booze, phony people and all the life style excesses that made California something of an anathema to some of the band members, probably Glen Frey and Don Felder particularly who came from elsewhere. Indeed, the album "Hotel California" contained other songs which tend to make the same point, most notably "Life in the Fast Lane" and "Wasted Time". It should be noted that while their songs decried the lifestyle, the band members were not necessarily immune from reveling in the high life themselves and that ambivalence shows in the tell-tale line "you can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave". In any event, it won a Grammy for Record of the Year, sold a million copies and the album itself has sold about 10 million more since its release. The income derived offers lots of scope for hedonism.

Answer: Fly Like An Eagle

Recorded by The Steve Miller Band, this was the group's follow-up release to their Number One hit "Rock 'n Me" in 1976. The group first came to national prominence in 1974 with the Number One hit "The Joker". Right after that, Miller purchased a farm with the proceeds, built a recording studio on the premises and promptly took almost three years off deciding what musical direction he would take next.

The hiatus served him well as these two hits would attest. The group's last major charting success was the Number One hit "Abracadabra" in 1982 and since then, they've recorded the occasional album while continuing to tour the nostalgia circuit.

Answer: Blinded By The Light

Of course, EVERYONE kept hearing that line as "Wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night" which made absolutely no sense at all! The song was written by Bruce Springsteen but his recording of it made no impression on the charts whatsoever. This cover by Manfred Mann and His Earth Band was the version that marched to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at Number Six in the U.K. We owe the garbled lyrics to the lead singer of the group, Chris Thompson, doing his best mumbling Mick Jagger impersonation. Springsteen has never had a Number One hit as a performer and believe it or not, this is his only composition to ever become a Number One hit for another recording artist. Given his prolific output in both areas, this is indeed a rather amazing factoid!

Springsteen's lyrics for this song were quite unusual but basically, a series of reminiscences about growing up in New Jersey. It's loaded with references to some of the characters he associated with during those years, among them "Madman", "Go-cart Mozart", "Little Early-Pearly", "Scott with a slingshot" and, of course, "some silicone sister with a manager mister". The latter reference is to a stripper in one of the Asbury Park strip clubs that the boys used to frequent.

Finally, a few words about Manfred Mann and his various groups. Mann was born to a wealthy Johannesburg family in 1940 but moved to England in the early 1960s to pursue his musical career. His musical inclinations tended to jazz and the blues but he gravitated to pop-rock primarily to pay the bills. His band had a number of big hits during the mid to late 1960s, most notably "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", a Number One hit in 1964 and his Number Ten version of the Dylan composition "Mighty Quinn" in 1969. He disbanded the group in 1969, forming his Earth Band in 1971. That group, with many changes in personnel over the years, has persisted into the 21st Century but has long eschewed commercial pop music. Instead, they continue to explore experimental concepts in other genres, most notably jazz, the blues and progressive alternative music.

Answer: Duke Ellington

The title of the song was "Sir Duke" and if you knew that, then Duke Ellington was obviously the correct answer. The song's composer and singer was Stevie Wonder and over the course of his career, he's paid tribute to several other performers. His second album. "Tribute To Uncle Ray", was dedicated to Ray Charles. He wrote and recorded a couple of songs in tribute to the late Wes Montgomery and his hit song "Master Blaster" was a dedication to Bob Marley and other seminal Reggae artists.

Since his debut Number One hit in 1963, "Fingertips - Pt. 2", Wonder has assembled a prodigious discography over his 45 year career (as this is being written). He has been credited with 10 Number One Hot 100 hits with several more on other Billboard charts. However, it's been over 20 years since he's had a chart topper of any kind and clearly those days of being a perennial chart presence are long gone. In fact, he's only produced one album over the last 13 years and although he still makes occasional live appearances, one may surmise that he's assuming a role of elder statesman within the music community. He's earned it!

Answer: Rich Girl

Daryl Hall & John Oates recorded this hit and by the time the smoke cleared, they would supplant The Everly Brothers as the premier charting duo of the rock era.

Hall and Oates first met in 1967 when both were students at Temple University in Philadelphia. They were members of different combos that were performing at a "Battle of the Bands" competition. A riot broke out and both ran for safety ultimately escaping the turmoil via one small service elevator. It was over that brief encounter in close proximity that they realized that beyond a mutual fear of physical harm, they also shared musical tastes. Shortly thereafter, they joined forces fronting a new group. After a brief split, they reunited as a folk music duo in 1969 and began recording together in 1972. By then, they had developed the "blue-eyed soul" sound that would serve them so well.

Their breakthrough hit was the Number Four "Sara Smile" in 1976 but outside of "Rich Girl", most of their other records in the late 1970s didn't make much headway, the disco craze in full throttle. When that genre had run its course by 1981, Hall and Oates really took off. Starting with "Kiss On My List", their second Number One smash, they would have a string of 12 Top 10 hits over the next four years including four more chart toppers before it was their turn to become victims of a changing musical environment. Between 1990 and 2008, they've only recorded two albums that have managed to make an appearance on Billboard's Hot 200 Album chart and their last Top 40 hit was in 1990. Nevertheless, they continue to tour and cut occasional CDs - enough to keep their fans and devotees of "blue-eyed soul" satiated.

Answer: On And On

"On And On" was Stephen Bishop's biggest hit but that's not saying much; he only had four charting songs and his next "biggest" only peaked at Number 22. Of your other choices, "Whatcha Gonna Do" and "I Go To Rio" were performed by Pablo Cruise. The former was a Number Six hit in 1977 and ranked 37th for the year; the latter was a Number 46 hit in 1979. "Swayin' To The Music" was a Number 10 hit for Johnny Rivers in 1977 and finished the year ranked 46th.

Stephen Bishop would make more of a mark as a composer than he did as a performer and his specialty was music for the movies. His most famous composition was "Separate Lives" from the movie "White Nights". It was a Number One hit for Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin in 1985. He also composed scores for "Animal House", "Roadie", "Tootsie", "The China Syndrome" and "Unfaithfully Yours". The next time you watch "Animal House", Bishop makes a cameo appearance as the "charming guy with guitar". During the toga party, he's sitting on the stairs playing his guitar and singing to some lovely coeds when "Bluto" (John Belushi) passes by, grabs the guitar and smashes it over the banister.

The lyric mentions Sam and Sue and they seem to be a popular couple in song during this era. If you recall, Sam and Suzie were the two muskrat's canoodling in "Muskrat Love", Captain and Tennille's big hit from 1976. Couldn't be the same pair though... are there muskrat's down in Jamaica?

Answer: Margaritaville

Although Jimmy Buffett had been bouncing around the music scene since the late 1960s, it was this song off the album "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes" that forged his identity. As a direct result, he became one of the most popular concert performers in America with a cult following of fans known as "Parrotheads".

Buffett was born on Christmas Day of 1946 in Mobile, Alabama and earned a history and journalism degree from Southern Mississippi U. before moving to Nashville intent on breaking into the Country music scene. The closest he got was as a staff reporter for Billboard magazine for two years. Too much of an individualist to be tied down to a nine-to-five job, he bolted to Key West, Florida and lived the life of a beach bum while earning enough money as a busker to get by. Eventually signed to a recording contract with ABC-Dunhill, his songs generally focused on the carefree, escapist life style associated with the Keys and the rest of the Caribbean. It obviously resonated with a lot of people as it led to the development of those "Parrotheads". His concerts have become events for his fans and the income he has earned from them over the years far exceeds anything he has earned from record albums and other resources which include a chain of "Margaritaville" restaurants and a line of "Margaritaville" clothes. He has also dabbled in writing fiction, well enough to be listed on bestseller's lists. Nevertheless, despite these varied interests, he spends most of his time sailing his yacht throughout the Caribbean, ever the free spirit.

Answer: Dreams

All these songs came from Fleetwood Mac's massive hit album "Rumours". The trick was to remember which song topped the singles chart! In order of their release as singles, this is how they did. "Go Your Own Way" peaked at Number Ten, "Dreams" was the Number One hit, "Don't Stop" stalled at Number Three while "You Make Loving Fun" charted at Number Nine.

During the recording of the album, the group was in turmoil. Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham were perfectionists and the band spent countless hours rehearsing take after take to assure that the final product was faultless. Nerves were getting frayed. The marriage of John and Christine McVie foundered during the process and they were divorced before the album was completed. Likewise, the romantic relationship between Buckingham and Stevie Nicks was similarly strained and they broke up shortly after the album was released. Normally, discord of such magnitude would signal the death knell of most groups but professionally speaking, the members recognized they had a hot property. They would remain intact for ten more years, create four more hit albums and over a dozen more singles that cracked the Hot 100. Then, starting in 1987, the group gradually began to splinter. By 1993, only the original founders, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, remained with a new cast before essentially disbanding in 1996. In 1997, the 1976 lineup reunited for the last time for a live album but since then, they have more or less remained together except for Christine McVie who seems to be contentedly retired from the business tending to her English country garden. Tour dates have been announced for 2009... the band marches on!

Answer: The Things We Do For Love

In 1970, a group named Hotlegs was formed in Manchester, England and recorded a song called "Neanderthal Man", a novelty number that soared to Number Two in the U.K. and charted a commendable Number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. At the time, the group consisted of Eric Stewart, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley. During their tour in support of the hit, a close friend of Stewart's, Graham Gouldman, joined the group. A couple of years later, they joined ranks with producer Jonathan King and were re-dubbed 10cc at King's suggestion. For what it's worth, 10 cc's is the average volume of semen in a male ejaculation!

From 1972 to 1978, 10cc was one of Britain's hottest bands with three Number One hits and ten Top 10s. Their music could be termed arty and irreverent and perhaps that is the reason it had less appeal in North America where only "I'm Not In Love" in 1975 and the song featured in the quiz, "The Things We Do For Love", were Top 10 successes. Some of their other British hits with unique titles such as "Rubber Bullets", "Life Is A Minestrone", "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" and "Dreadlock Holiday" were extremely innovative and clever but either languished in the nether regions of the Hot 100 or failed to chart at all.

By the time "The Things We Do For Love" was released in 1977, Godley and Creme had already left the group feeling constrained by the band's increasing commercialism. They recorded as a duo for several years and had one fairly substantial hit in 1985 with "Cry". Eventually, they ceased recording and focused their attentions on music video production. The video they did for "Cry" featured one of the first usages of image morphing technology and really was quite extraordinary. It was a series of faces which morphed from one to another throughout the video. Meanwhile, Gouldman and Stewart continued to carry on with the 10cc banner using session musicians to support them until 1984 when they took an eight year hiatus to pursue other projects. Their reunion in 1992 only lasted three years. Finally, in 2000 Gouldman resurrected the group name and resumed touring with a totally new line-up of musicians.

Answer: Lucille

From 1968 to 1970, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition scored seven Hot 100 hits most of which were solid top 20 entries. Their popularity even led to a syndicated TV series in 1972, about the same time that the hits began to dry up. Rogers left the group in 1973 convinced that there was a market for a crooner who could successfully straddle the country/pop fence. It took a while to find the right formula but "Lucille" was the vehicle that turned the trick. It was Number One on the Country chart, Number Five on the Hot 100, earned him a Grammy award and initiated a deluge of crossover country and pop hits. From 1977 to 1984 he scored 20 Top 40 pop hits with two Number Ones, the Lionel Richie composition "Lady" and a duet with Dolly Parton, "Islands In The Stream" penned by the Gibb brothers. On the country side of the ledger, those 20 hits did even better, 16 of them going Number One. During those years, he racked up seven American Music awards, five for Male Country vocalist of the Year and two for Male Pop vocalist. In 1981, he scooped up both awards.

For some reason, from 1985 onward, his releases seem to lose currency with the pop market - he has not had a song chart in the Hot 100 since then. However, he continued to be a presence on the Country charts for two decades although his 21st century releases have usually stalled in the mid-range of the Top 100. But then, what should one expect from a 70 year old! At present, Rogers is very active with a number of projects. He records about an album a year, maintains a regular concert schedule, does some television and movie work, is actively engaged in his restaurant chain (Kenny Rogers' Roasters), pursues photography as a hobby having published two books of his photos and enthusiastically involves himself in philanthropic activities.

Answer: Send In The Clowns

I must admit that I've never seen the play (Broadway plays are not commonly performed on the Canadian prairies) and I have no idea about its plot and what purpose the song serves within the play. I do know that "send in the clowns" was a phrase used by circus performers. When disaster befell an act, clowns were sent in to distract the audience from focusing on whatever happened. I presume the song serves a metaphorical function for such a situation within the context of the play. Purportedly, this was the last song composed by Stephen Sondheim for the production. He wrote it specifically for Glynis Johns, the star of the show. She had vocal limitations as a singer so the song was written within a one octave range and with short phrases to assist with her breath control. The song was performed by Judy Collins for release as a single and has subsequently been covered by hundreds of artists. Truly, it is now a staple of the show tune genre.

Judy was born in Seattle in 1939 and a gifted child prodigy, initially trained as a concert pianist. By the middle of the 1950s, she turned her attentions to the guitar and folk music. Her first recording efforts in the early 1960s consisted largely of old English ballads accompanied only by her guitar. By the middle of the decade, she began recording material composed by contemporary songwriters and, as such, gave huge career boosts to the likes of Joni Mitchell ("Both Sides Now") and Leonard Cohen ("Bird On The Wire"). She did for them what Joan Baez did for Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. Around that time, like a good folky should, she became immersed in social activism and hung with the likes of Stephen Stills with whom she was romantically linked. He wrote the Crosby, Stills and Nash song "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" in dedication to her. The 1970s saw her mellow out and ever since, she has been considered an "art song" artist, performing show tunes such as this, old standards and her own compositions. Still possessing a crystal clear soprano voice, she actively tours and records.