Sounds Of The Sixties Rewound Part 29 Quiz

Answer: The Beatles

John Lennon was the main writer of "I Should Have Known Better", which was in the movie "A Hard Day's Night". The single reached only number 53 in the US in 1964.

Lennon initially liked the song, but in 1980 said: "'I Should Have Known Better' is, just a song, it doesn't mean a damn thing."

Answer: Diana Ross & The Supremes

"I'm Livin' In Shame" was a US number ten and UK number 14 in 1969.

This was a sequel to the 1968 hit "Love Child" and was written by Berry Gordy, Henry Cosby, Pam Sawyer, R. Dean Taylor, and Frank Wilson.

Answer: Love Affair

"A Day Without Love" reached number six on the UK's 'Record Retailer' top 50 chart in 1968.

This was the fourth single from Love Affair. They had a number one earlier in 1968 with a cover of Robert Knight's "Everlasting Love".

Answer: The Box Tops

"Cry Like A Baby" was a US number two and UK number 16 in 1968.

This was a follow-up to the number one The Box Tops had in 1967.

The song was to be extensively covered by the likes of Lulu, Kim Carnes, Kiki Dee, Petula Clark and Betty Wright.

Answer: Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff wrote "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" and it gave him his first UK hit, a number six in 1969. It reached number 22 in the USA and number 13 in Canada.

Cliff had three songs reach the US top 40, the best performer, "I Can See Clearly Now", sliding in at number 18 in 1994 after being featured in the movie "Cool Runnings". (Did you see what I did there?)

Answer: Dusty Springfield

Clive Westlake and Tom Springfield (Dusty's brother) wrote "Losing You". It was a UK number nine in 1964.

Several other songs called "Losing You" have appeared over the years, including a Brenda Lee translation of a French song, "Connais-tu".

Answer: Neil Sedaka

Billy Joel once told a story of writing "Anthony's Song" and having to change the music. Joel explained that he traditionally wrote the melody first, but after writing the lyrics, he realised he had what "sounded like a Neil Sedaka song".

"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" was Neil Sedaka's first US number one. It made number seven in the UK in 1961.

Answer: The Turtles

In 1967, "Happy Together" was a US number one for The Turtles. It reached number 12 in the UK.

Gary Bonner and Alan Gordon wrote the song and it was offered to several groups, who turned it down, before it arrived with The Turtles. They added some horns to a basic track and the new sound knocked "Penny Lane" by The Beatles off the top of the Hot 100.

The Turtles split in 1984, but a new outfit reappeared in the 1980s as part of a nostalgic look back to the 1960s along with Gary Puckett, The Association, and Spanky & Our Gang.

Answer: Bobbie Gentry

Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this for the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises". In the UK, Bobby Gentry took the song to the top of the charts in 1969. Dionne Warwick later included it on an album, as did The Carpenters.

So:
"What do you get when you kiss a guy
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
After you do, he'll never phone 'ya...".
Well, even a lyricist as clever as Hal David had off days.

This song is not to be confused with the "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
released by Tom Jones in 1967, which was a UK number two.

Answer: The Yardbirds

"Heart Full Of Soul" was another hit for The Yardbirds written by Graham Gouldman. It reached number two in the UK in 1969 and number nine on the Hot 100.

The Yardbirds had five songs hit the top ten on the UK charts.

Answer: Connie Francis

Connie Francis had a number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" in 1960.

This was one of three consecutive Billboard chart-toppers for Connie Francis in the early 1960s.

Connie Francis was one of the top-selling women singers of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Depending on which source you read, she sold up to 200 million records.

Answer: Shirley Bassey

Written by Lionel Bart for the stage production of "Oliver!", this was a UK number two for Shirley Bassey in 1960. It was also on an album by the show's cast.

This was one of twelve top ten hits for Shirley Bassey in the UK, including two at the top.

Answer: Elvis Presley

"It's Now Or Never" was Elvis Presley's top-selling single in the USA: 20 million copies were shifted.

The song was based on "O Sole Mio", written by Giovanni Capurro, Eduardo di Capua, and Alfredo Mazzucchi.

Many singers have covered the song, but people in Britain may well remember it from a 1980 advertising campaign used by a major ice cream manufacturer. The TV commercial showed a young man and a young woman in approaching gondolas in what was presumably Venice. As the two gondolas passed, the man grabbed an ice cream cone out of the woman's hand - all the while singing words to the tune, but glorifying that ice cream.

While the opera singer Renato Pagliari was reputed to be the voice of the advert, that was denied by his son after his death. Whoever sang it made that ice cream one of the UK's biggest sellers.

Answer: Rufus Lumley

Rufus Lumley wrote and released "I'm Standing" as a demo in 1966.
Thereafter it disappeared until it was picked up on the British Northern Soul scene.

No mention of chart performances have been found, but if you know differently, send a note.

Similarly, it takes a lot to track down information about Lumley and a lot is speculative. We do know he was raised in Connecticut and attended stage school in New York City. A spell in the US Air Force followed after which he got singing contracts with record labels in NYC. A quarter-page advertisement in an issue of Billboard magazine from 1967 promised "You'll be seeing a lot more of Rufus Lumley" to promote a different single.

You should be able to find numerous releases featured on music streaming sites.

Answer: Frank Sinatra

Paul Anka heard the French song "Comme D'Habitude" and gave the melody the English words that made it "My Way".

This became a song closely associated with Old Blue Eyes but - he hated it. In a 2000 BBC interview, Sinatra's daughter Tina said, "He always thought that song was self-serving and self-indulgent. He didn't like it. That song stuck and he couldn't get it off his shoe."

In 1967 the song was a US number 27 but reached number five in the UK.