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Quiz about 1960 Music  Some Lyrical Questions
Quiz about 1960 Music  Some Lyrical Questions

1960 Music - Some Lyrical Questions Quiz


The year is 1960. I'll provide a lyric from a hit song from that year - you'll be asked to complete the lyric, guess the artist, or identify the song title. Easy!

A multiple-choice quiz by maddogrick16. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
maddogrick16
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
172,842
Updated
Nov 06 24
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
13 / 20
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Top 10% Quiz
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Question 1 of 20
1. "Yeah, you should see my little sis"
From which 'dance craze' song did this line appear?
Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. "You come on like a dream, peaches and cream.
Lips like strawberry wine.
You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine."
AHA..."You're Sixteen"...Ringo Starr! Well, yes if this were a quiz about 1973 lyrics! Who first recorded the song in 1960 and had a #8 hit with it?
Hint


Question 3 of 20
3. "Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina.
Wicked and evil while casting a spell.
My love was deep for this Mexican maiden.
I was in love, but in vain I could tell."
This was the first #1 song for the 1960's. It was?
Hint


Question 4 of 20
4. "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone.
Let's pretend that we're together all alone."
Name the song.


Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. "Don't want your love anymore.
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure.
I die each time I hear this sound.
Here he comes, that's ___________."
Complete the lyric.

Answer: (Two Words)
Question 6 of 20
6. "Oh, I know that the music's fine like sparkling wine,
Go and have your fun.
Laugh and sing but while we're apart,
Don't give your heart to anyone."
Name the song.
Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. "When I first saw you with your smile so tender.
My heart was captured, my soul surrendered.
I spent a lifetime waiting for the right time.
Now that you're near, the time is here at last."
The title of this #1?
Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. "You used to be my honey, 'til you spent all my money.
No use for you to cry, I'll see you by and by."
The next line was?
Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. "The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean.
But you don't care how many tears I cry.
And though you only lead me on and hurt me.
I couldn't bring myself to say goodbye."
Name the song.
Hint


Question 10 of 20
10. "I don't claim to be an 'A' student, but I'm tryin' to be.
For maybe by being an 'A' student, baby, I can win your love for me."
This song was originally done in 1960. Who was the singer?
Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. "There goes my baby, there goes my heart.
They're gone forever, so far apart.
But only the lonely know why I cry, only the lonely."
This was the first big hit for this star.
Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. "I love every movement, there's nothing I would change.
She doesn't need improvement, she's much too nice to rearrange"
The song title and artist are?

Hint


Question 13 of 20
13. "Now your daddy don't mind, and your mommy don't mind,
if we have another dance, yeah, just one more time."
The title of this #1 song?
Hint


Question 14 of 20
14. A tricky one:
"You can shake an apple off an apple tree.
Shake-a, shake-a sugar,
But you'll never shake me"
The song was entitled?

Hint


Question 15 of 20
15. "That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track.
I pulled you out and we were safe, but you went running back."
The title of this "tear jerker"?
Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. A little twist.
"Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92,
With George Pratt, his partner, and brother, Billy, too.
They crossed the Yukon River and found the bonanza gold.
Below that old white mountain just a little south-east of Nome."
The song was "North To Alaska", a #4 hit for Johnny Horton in 1960. They left Seattle, according to the lyric, in 1892. Later in the lyric it states "Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of _____________. Fill in that blank!
Hint


Question 17 of 20
17. "Please accept my apology, but love is blind and I was too blind to see." Who sang these apologetic words? Hint


Question 18 of 20
18. "My love for you is wider than the widest sea.
Longer than a memory, sweeter than a honey tree.
My love, oh oh, my love, mmm mmm, for you."
Do you recognize the title of this hit?
Hint


Question 19 of 20
19. "Once there were valleys where rivers used to run.
Once there were blue skies with white clouds high above.
Once they were part of an everlasting love."
Name that song.
Hint


Question 20 of 20
20. "Honey, you lied when you said you love me.
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies.
Than to go on living without you."
The lines are spoken, not sung. It's a Presley song, his third and last #1 of the year. It rode the top of the charts for 6 weeks right to the calendar's end. Enough clues - name the song!

Answer: (Four words - no punctuation needed)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Yeah, you should see my little sis" From which 'dance craze' song did this line appear?

Answer: The Twist

The lyric continues "She really knows how to rock, She knows how to twist". That started it! A new dance craze every week, checking it out on "American Bandstand", Chubby Checker making a song about it. This went on until about 1965. "The Twist" was a #1 song for a week in September 1960 and re-entered the #1 position in January 1962 after falling off the charts altogether. It's the only time that this has ever happened!
2. "You come on like a dream, peaches and cream. Lips like strawberry wine. You're sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine." AHA..."You're Sixteen"...Ringo Starr! Well, yes if this were a quiz about 1973 lyrics! Who first recorded the song in 1960 and had a #8 hit with it?

Answer: Johnny Burnette

Okay... Johnny and Dorsey were brothers. Rocky ("Tired Of Toein' The Line" - 1980) was Johnny's son. Billy Burnette, son of Dorsey, cousin to Rocky, joined Fleetwood Mac in 1987. Very musical family! But, for sure, Carol had nothing to do with any of "these" Burnette's.
3. "Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina. Wicked and evil while casting a spell. My love was deep for this Mexican maiden. I was in love, but in vain I could tell." This was the first #1 song for the 1960's. It was?

Answer: El Paso

Certainly one of the best "story songs" of the era, it was #1 for two weeks to kick off the decade. Marty Robbins wrote and sang "El Paso".
4. "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's pretend that we're together all alone." Name the song.

Answer: He'll Have To Go

This was a #2 song for Jim Reeves and only one of four songs of his to enter the pop charts. The country charts were another matter! Despite his death in a plane crash in 1964, his smooth baritone voice and immense body of work was so popular in that genre that it resulted in posthumous country hits for Reeves even into the 1980's.
5. "Don't want your love anymore. Don't want your kisses, that's for sure. I die each time I hear this sound. Here he comes, that's ___________." Complete the lyric.

Answer: Cathy's Clown

The Everly Brothers topped the charts for five weeks with this hit. It would be their last #1 on the pop charts.
6. "Oh, I know that the music's fine like sparkling wine, Go and have your fun. Laugh and sing but while we're apart, Don't give your heart to anyone." Name the song.

Answer: Save The Last Dance For Me

The only #1 hit for the Drifters on the Billboard Pop charts. The lead singer on this song was Ben E. King who later went on to a fine solo career. The same could be said for the group's original lead singer who left the group in 1955 - Clyde McPhatter!
7. "When I first saw you with your smile so tender. My heart was captured, my soul surrendered. I spent a lifetime waiting for the right time. Now that you're near, the time is here at last." The title of this #1?

Answer: It's Now Or Never

Presley's manager, Col. Tom Parker, was a genius! Although Elvis had twelve #1 hits in the 1950's, Parker was concerned that as his fan base (primarily teenage girls) grew up, they might be lost to more "mature" entertainers. So, Parker digs up this old Italian song (O Sole Mio), a staple of operatic tenors such as Caruso, modernizes the tempo, applies English lyrics and lets Elvis entertain.

He performs the song beautifully showing range and emotion he never exhibited before. Bingo! He not only retains the teeny-boppers as fans but adds the teeny-bopper's mothers! Ka-ching! With this new fan base, the Vegas act was just around the corner.

Incidently, "Surrender" was a hit for Elvis a year later, 1961.
8. "You used to be my honey, 'til you spent all my money. No use for you to cry, I'll see you by and by." The next line was?

Answer: "Cause I'm walkin' to New Orleans"

"Walking To New Orleans" was Fats Domino's last top ten hit in 1960, charting at #6. From 1955 to 1963, he had a total of 37 top forty hits, 11 top ten hits but nary a #1. He was inducted in the R&R Hall of Fame in 1986 and was still performing around New Orleans and Las Vegas well into the 1990's and may still be now in the new century.
9. "The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean. But you don't care how many tears I cry. And though you only lead me on and hurt me. I couldn't bring myself to say goodbye." Name the song.

Answer: Everybody's Somebody's Fool

1960 would be Connie Francis' biggest year... 6 top 40's, 4 top 10's and two #1's, this song and "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own". Little does she know it then but her career would essentially be over within four years. Maybe she could have used a "Colonel Tom" for management!
10. "I don't claim to be an 'A' student, but I'm tryin' to be. For maybe by being an 'A' student, baby, I can win your love for me." This song was originally done in 1960. Who was the singer?

Answer: Sam Cooke

Sam Cooke co-wrote this song with his brother and his rendition rose to #12 on the charts. In 1965, Herman's Hermit's had the biggest hit with the song - #4. Finally, it was reprised by Art Garfunkel accompanied by James Taylor and Paul Simon in 1978. It was a #17 hit that time.
11. "There goes my baby, there goes my heart. They're gone forever, so far apart. But only the lonely know why I cry, only the lonely." This was the first big hit for this star.

Answer: Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison hit #2 with this lamenting ballad, "Only The Lonely". Ultimately, he would have two #1's, ten top 10's and twenty-three top 40's. Another career cut short with his untimely death in 1988... just when he was rebounding back to the big time after his career had encountered a doldrum for over 20 years.
12. "I love every movement, there's nothing I would change. She doesn't need improvement, she's much too nice to rearrange" The song title and artist are?

Answer: "Poetry In Motion" by Johnny Tillotson

This song by Tillotson was his debut effort on the charts and a #2 hit. Thereafter, he had several other reasonably big hits on both the pop and country charts. Of this group, he had the biggest career. Both Dinning and Kenner were one hit wonders and McDaniels did a little better than that with six charting singles. However, he never had a hit after 1963.
13. "Now your daddy don't mind, and your mommy don't mind, if we have another dance, yeah, just one more time." The title of this #1 song?

Answer: Stay

"Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs goes on record as being the shortest song ever (1:31) to be a #1 hit. It was later recorded by The Four Seasons and Jackson Browne, albeit without the same level of success.
14. A tricky one: "You can shake an apple off an apple tree. Shake-a, shake-a sugar, But you'll never shake me" The song was entitled?

Answer: Stuck On You

This was Presley's second #1 song of 1960. "All Shook Up" was certainly a plausible guess if you were unfamiliar with the rest of the lyric or not a devoted Presley fan. However, that Presley song dates back to 1957!
15. "That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track. I pulled you out and we were safe, but you went running back." The title of this "tear jerker"?

Answer: Teen Angel

It's normal for people in their late teenage years to have a certain curiosity about death and the afterlife. I thought the extension of these thoughts into the world of pop music was a bit extreme. Maybe if they were done better? This was a #1 hit, however!
16. A little twist. "Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92, With George Pratt, his partner, and brother, Billy, too. They crossed the Yukon River and found the bonanza gold. Below that old white mountain just a little south-east of Nome." The song was "North To Alaska", a #4 hit for Johnny Horton in 1960. They left Seattle, according to the lyric, in 1892. Later in the lyric it states "Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of _____________. Fill in that blank!

Answer: 1901

"Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of nineteen-one". I'm gonna have to find that movie and watch it again! I recall it to be decent entertainment. It starred John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Fabian and Capucine.
17. "Please accept my apology, but love is blind and I was too blind to see." Who sang these apologetic words?

Answer: Brenda Lee

"I'm Sorry" was Brenda Lee's first #1 and her second big hit after "Sweet Nothin's" released earlier in 1960. She would only have one other #1 song and that was "I Just Want To Be Wanted" later in the year. It was "Little Miss Dynamite's" biggest year of her seven year "pop" career. She lasted much, much longer as a country artist.
18. "My love for you is wider than the widest sea. Longer than a memory, sweeter than a honey tree. My love, oh oh, my love, mmm mmm, for you." Do you recognize the title of this hit?

Answer: Mission Bell

This song was the only real hit (a #7) for Donnie Brooks. His real name was John Faircloth and apparently recorded earlier under such names as Johnny Faire, Dick Bush and Johnny Jordan. Since it was his only hit, maybe the trouble wasn't really his name.
19. "Once there were valleys where rivers used to run. Once there were blue skies with white clouds high above. Once they were part of an everlasting love." Name that song.

Answer: Green Fields

"Green Fields" was a #2 song for four weeks by The Brothers Four. It couldn't usurp #1 from the Everly's "Cathy's Clown". The Brothers Four were one of the first groups to capitalize on the folk craze based on the Kingston Trio's remarkable success with "Tom Dooley".

However, their success was rather limited in comparison to the onslaught that would follow - Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, et al.
20. "Honey, you lied when you said you love me. And I had no cause to doubt you. But I'd rather go on hearing your lies. Than to go on living without you." The lines are spoken, not sung. It's a Presley song, his third and last #1 of the year. It rode the top of the charts for 6 weeks right to the calendar's end. Enough clues - name the song!

Answer: Are You Lonesome Tonight

This was, in my research, the first time that a #1 hit had a significant portion of the song spoken rather than sung since the early '50's when Stan Freberg recorded "St. George and The Dragonet" in 1953. "Are You Lonesome Tonight" was also a hit in 1927 for Vaughn Deleath.
Source: Author maddogrick16

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