Sounds Of The Sixties Rewound Part 21 Quiz

Answer: Glen Campbell

In 1969, Glen Campbell took "Galveston" to number four in both the UK and USA.

This was yet another Jimmy Webb song. It was first recorded by Don Ho as a B side. The single achieved little success and he gave a copy to Campbell when he appeared on 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'.

"Galveston" was regarded by some as an anti-war song, which Webb rejected. He was full of praise for Campbell's version. He soldsongfacts: ""Glen was very, very good at commercialising my songs. He could come up with great intros and great solos, great breaks, and he wrote perfect strings, because he wrote very little. It was a minimalist approach and it just left Glen out there with the song and the guitar."

The song was to be covered by numerous artists - whosampled listed 15.

Answer: Sam & Dave

Sam & Dave were Sam Moore and Dave Prater and they took "Soul Man" to number two in the USA and number 24 in the UK in 1965.

The music in the recording came from the Stax Records houseband Booker T and The MGs, although Booker did not play on it.

Sam & Dave won a Grammy for the song, but they did not really get along and broke up in 1970 - only to reunite from time to time.

In 1979, The Blues Brothers took the song to number 14 on the Hot 100.

Answer: Pink Floyd

"See Emily Play" was a UK number six for Pink Floyd in 1967. This was a time when the original Pink Floyd were in vogue and Syd Barrett wrote the song. Barrett, though, had his medical issues, and was replaced by David Gilmour full time.

From "See Emily Play" in 1967, it took Pink Floyd 12 years before they had their first number one, "Another Brick In The Wall". And while singles thereafter did not move too high in the charts, their albums were well received, 20 hitting the top ten in the UK.

The internet site bestsellingrecords listed the Pink Floyd albums by sales numbers, noting 250m worldwide in total.

Answer: Val Doonican

Val Doonican once told the story of playing in a showband in rural Ireland. He noticed that all the dancers were moving around four chairs placed in the middle of the floor. During the interval he moved them. After the break, the dancers moved into the space the chairs had blocked off - and fell through the rotten wooden flooring.

"What Would I Be" was released by Val Doonican in 1966. It peaked at number two in the UK. It was his best performance on the singles charts, although he had four other top tens in the 1960s.

Answer: The Moody Blues and London Festival Orchestra

"Nights In White Satin" was a US number two and UK number nine in 1967.
By the way, there was no real London Festival Orchestra; that was the name the Moody Blues gave to the backing instrumentalists.

Justin Haywood wrote the song and later said in a newspaper interview: "I wrote our most famous song, 'Nights in White Satin' when I was 19. It was a series of random thoughts and was quite autobiographical. It was a very emotional time as I was at the end of one big love affair and the start of another. A lot of that came out in the song."

The Moody Blues had three songs hit the UK top ten, including one at the top. They had nine alums hit the top ten, including four at number one.

Answer: The Easybeats

"Friday On My Mind" reached number six in the UK and number 16 in the US in 1966 and topped the Australian charts for eight weeks.

It was the first big hit for the Australian combo outside their homeland. While they were immensely popular in Australia, drugs abuse and poor management were to limit their career. They officially split up in 1969.

In 2001, Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) put together a list of 'Top 30 Australian songs'. "Friday On My Mind" was placed at number one. (Strangely, not one Seekers song in that list.)

Answer: David & Jonathan

"Lovers Of The World Unite" was a UK number seven for Johnathan and David in 1966. The band was, in reality, the duo Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook.

Earlier that year they hit number 11 with a cover of The Beatles song "Michelle".

Answer: Betty Everett and Jerry Butler

Betty Everett and Jerry Butler took "Let It Be Me" to number five in the USA in 1964.

They were not the first to release the song: it was a 1955 French composition before Jill Corey recorded it in English with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra in 1957.

In 1959, the Everly Brothers had a US number seven and UK number 13 with the song.

In 1975, the Welsh rocker Dave Edmunds recorded it for his second solo album "Subtle As A Flying Mallet" - playing most of the instruments on the studio tracks himself.

Answer: Helen Shapiro

"You Don't Know" was a 1961 UK chart-topper for by Helen Shapiro. She was aged just 15 at the time.

Shapiro had a second number one that year, but gradually moved away from the pop scene to jazz; by the early 2000s she was performing almost exclusively in faith-based events

Answer: The Crickets

None of these quizzes would be complete without a song written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and "Don't Ever Change" is it this time around. The Crickets took it to number five in the UK singles charts in 1962.

In 1963, it was covered by The Beatles for the BBC's 'Pop Go The Beatles' radio show. It featured a rare harmony duet between Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

Answer: Matt Monro

One of this quiz author's favourite movies of all time is the original 1969 "The Italian Job" and Matt Monro sang "On Days Like These" over the opening credits.

Monro was one of the best British crooners of the time and was lauded by his US contemporaries.

While the song did not chart at the time, in 2022 it became a UK number 84.

Answer: The Walker Brothers

Just as no sixties music quiz would be complete without a King/Goffin song (see above), it would also be hard to bypass arguably the greatest American songwriting duo of the era, Hal David and Burt Bacharach. They were behind "Make It Easy On Yourself" for The Walker Brothers, which was a UK number one in 1965.

Jerry Butler had an earlier top 20 with the song in 1962. The Isley Brothers also recorded the song as "Are You Lonely?", but it was not released for over 40 years.

It has been reported that the song was promised to Dionne Warwick, but Bacharach and David gave it to Jerry Butler instead. Warwick was said to be furious. She was, though, later to cover the song.

Of course you already knew that The Walker Brothers were not in fact siblings.

Answer: Manfred Mann

"If You Gotta Go, Go Now" was a cover of a Bob Dylan song and reached number two in the UK in 1965.

In 1969, the English folk group Fairport Convention released it in French as "Si Tu Dois Partir".

It was regarded by some critics as "a fun song" by Dylan and quite unlike some of his other work of the time - 1965.

Answer: Marvin Gaye

"I'll Be Doggone" was the first million-selling record for Marvin Gaye and reached number eight on the Hot 100 in 1965.

This was one of 18 top ten hits in the USA, three of those reaching the top.

Answer: Ken Dodd

Written in the 1930s, the Liverpool comedian Ken Dodd took "Tears" to number one in the UK in 1965. (You may find it misnamed in some places as "Tears For Souvenirs")

In 1965, "Tears" was the biggest-selling single in the UK - outstripping any by the comedian's fellow scousers, The Beatles.

Ken Dodd started his career as a singer and comedian (and later actor) in the English music halls of the 1950s. Notwithstanding his sometimes fraught relationship with the taxman, he was knighted in 2017 for services to entertainment and charity