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A Glug from the Little Brown Jug at the End Quiz

American Chart songs from 1924-1939

Songs from the US charts, beginning in 1924, ending 1939.

A photo quiz by heidi66. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
heidi66
Time
4 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
409,766
Updated
Feb 12 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
167
Last 3 plays: Guest 67 (10/10), Guest 98 (10/10), Guest 120 (7/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Betty was working in the Aeolian Hall, Manhattan NY when George Gershwin performed "Rhapsody in Blue" for the first time. Oh, she did get the shivers when she heard the first notes coming from Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. But did she have some lyrics to remember, or was it an instrumental?


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Question 2 of 10
2. It is the end of 1925 and Betty is asked by a good friend about a new song. As he does not know the title, he sings as best as he can remember:

"Well let me tell you well no chick made
Could be the same as....as..."

Betty starts singing:

Answer: (three words)
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Question 3 of 10
3. It is 1927. Betty had just celebrated her birthday party. She got several records with the same song, done by different artists. Her mistake. She should have told them, which version she liked the most. She preferred The Knickerbockers' version. And now she would be going to the cinema to see her first talkie. She had heard Al Jolson would be singing that song, too. Which Irving Berlin composition was a big hit that year?

Answer: (two words)
Question 4 of 10
4. Still in 1927 New York Flapper Betty asked a country bred friend, what a Whippoorwill is? She just heard about a whippoorwill call at the beginning of a song. Which song was it, can you guess?

Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. In 1929 Betty had come in a bit of money and invested in the stock-market. After the wall street crash, she nearly lost everything. Her friend left her, too. Only her gramophone gave her some comfort.

Which Ethel Waters song of that year dealt with a question she often asked herself?

Answer: (Three words. No punctuation!)
Question 6 of 10
6. In 1930, Ted Lewis & His Band made a song about an "Easy Rider". The song was named like a colorful animal. Take a sporting guess, the picture might help.
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. It's still 1930.

Betty's friend celebrates his birthday and wants a Jimmie Rodgers record with a Tennessee Hustler and a policeman. Which record will Betty wrap up and give as a present?
Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. It is 1935 and Betty is feeling sentimental. She just feels like Bing Crosby in his great hit, watching what?




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Question 9 of 10
9. Later in her life, Betty, being now a respected old lady, skipped through the records of her grandchild. She was surprised about a song named "Smoke on the Water". Oh no, not because she was interested in that style. No, because she remembered the band's name (nothing smoky!) from an old record of the 30s. Did this band get its name from that song of her memory?


Question 10 of 10
10. 1939, the end of a turbulent decade. Betty put a Glenn Miller song on the gramophone. The original song dates back to 1869 and what liquid was in that little brown jug? Hint


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Betty was working in the Aeolian Hall, Manhattan NY when George Gershwin performed "Rhapsody in Blue" for the first time. Oh, she did get the shivers when she heard the first notes coming from Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. But did she have some lyrics to remember, or was it an instrumental?

Answer: Instrumental

No singer was needed, as it is an instrumental.

"Rhapsody in Blue" premiered on Tuesday, February 12, 1924, as part of a concert entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music". The audience was underwhelmed until the first clarinet glissando released from Ross Gorman filled the air, and Gershwin's piano was heard. The audience loved it, the critics were often negative.

Well, Gershwin's piece is still heard and loved nearly 100 years later. The critics might have been wrong!
2. It is the end of 1925 and Betty is asked by a good friend about a new song. As he does not know the title, he sings as best as he can remember: "Well let me tell you well no chick made Could be the same as....as..." Betty starts singing:

Answer: Sweet Georgia Brown

"Well let me tell you well no chick made
Could be the same
As Sweet Georgia Brown
Crazy feet that dance so neat
Has sweet Georgia Brown"

Ben Bernie met with George Thaddeus Brown- a member of the Georgia State House of Representatives- who talked about his young daughter named Georgia. Together with Maceo Pinkard and the future member of the three Stooges, Kenneth Casey, they wrote this song.

It was first recorded on March 19 by Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra and stayed at number one for five weeks.

The Harlem Globetrotters made it their theme song years later.
3. It is 1927. Betty had just celebrated her birthday party. She got several records with the same song, done by different artists. Her mistake. She should have told them, which version she liked the most. She preferred The Knickerbockers' version. And now she would be going to the cinema to see her first talkie. She had heard Al Jolson would be singing that song, too. Which Irving Berlin composition was a big hit that year?

Answer: Blue Skies

"Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly"

"Blue skies" was an Irving Berlin song for the Rodgers and Hammerstein show "Betsy" in 1926. It was the cat's meow, that tune. So in 1927 it was available from Bell Baker, different orchestras, Vaughn De Leath, the Giersdorf Sisters and most successful: The Knickerbockers, vocals done by Charles Kaley. No wonder that Al Jolson sung it in the first Talkie "The Jazz Singer".
4. Still in 1927 New York Flapper Betty asked a country bred friend, what a Whippoorwill is? She just heard about a whippoorwill call at the beginning of a song. Which song was it, can you guess?

Answer: My Blue Heaven

"Whippoorwills call, evenin' is nigh
Hurry to my Blue Heaven
Turn to the right, there's a little white light
Will lead you to my Blue Heaven"

"My Blue Heaven" was recorded on September 14, 1927 by Gene Austin and also by Paul Whiteman, plus his orchestra. It was written by Walter Donaldson and George A. Whiting.

Gene Austin and Paul Whiteman had a hit with that song in 1928, Gene Austin having the bigger one.

The Eastern whip-poor-will is a nightjar, a bird. So now you know it, Betty.
5. In 1929 Betty had come in a bit of money and invested in the stock-market. After the wall street crash, she nearly lost everything. Her friend left her, too. Only her gramophone gave her some comfort. Which Ethel Waters song of that year dealt with a question she often asked herself?

Answer: Am I Blue

"Am I blue?
Am I blue?
Ain't these tears
In these eyes tellin' you?"

While the song was about love, I strongly suspect people who lost everything in the Wall street crash felt certainly that way.

The song was by Harry Akst (music) and Grant Clarke (lyrics), and it was featured in four movies that year. Ethel Waters performed it in "On with the Show!" carrying a basket with cotton on a stage, dressed a bit too good for that kind of work. I only saw this black and white, but at the time the movie was the first all color, all talking feature-length movie.
6. In 1930, Ted Lewis & His Band made a song about an "Easy Rider". The song was named like a colorful animal. Take a sporting guess, the picture might help.

Answer: Yellow Dog Blues

In 1913, a Jockey ran away with the money:

"When she found out "Jockey" was not there
Miss Susie cried out in despair "

The song "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" was a 1913 Shelton Brooks song. It was blessed with an answer song by W.C. Handy two years later. First under the title "Yellow Dog Rag", which didn't get enough response, so in 1919 Handy jumped on the popular Blues wagon and renamed it in "Yellow Dog Blues".
As mentioned in the question: in 1930, Ted Lewis & His Band recorded it and made it into the charts.

"So he had to vamp it but the hike ain't far
He's gone where the Southern cross' the Yellow Dog"

"Southern Cross" was the Southern Railway, the "Yellow Dog" was the "Yazoo Delta Railroad". So he run away not with a colorful canine but using the train.
Poor little Susie.
7. It's still 1930. Betty's friend celebrates his birthday and wants a Jimmie Rodgers record with a Tennessee Hustler and a policeman. Which record will Betty wrap up and give as a present?

Answer: Blue Yodel #9 (Standing on the Corner)

"Standin' on the corner, I didn't mean no harm
Along come a police, he took me by the arm
It was down in Memphis, corner of Beale and Main
He says, "Big boy, you'll have to tell me your name""

Jimmie Rodgers released quite a lot of yodels in his lifetime. Which wasn't that long, as he died aged 35 from a pulmonary hemorrhage. He had suffered from tuberculosis for a long time.

Rodgers was a former railroad worker. "Blue Yodel # 9" is a blues/country song and features in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and roll". Louis Armstrong played the trumpet and Armstrong's wife Lil the piano on his recording.

So Betty chose a nice present, still recognized today, didn't she?
8. It is 1935 and Betty is feeling sentimental. She just feels like Bing Crosby in his great hit, watching what?

Answer: Red Sails In The Sunset

"Red sails in the sunset
Way out on the sea
Oh, carry my loved one
Home safely to me"

Irish Songwriter Jimmy Kennedy was inspired by a yacht he often saw. Together with Hugh Williams - a pseudonym for Austrian Wilhelm Grosz - a hit came alive. Grosz had to leave Europe, he was Jewish. Fun fact: a German version of the song was released in Germany, because of his pseudonym.

Bing Crosby was one of many who sung, sorry crooned, that song in 1935. Another one was Al Bowly and in the 1950s Nat King Cole.
9. Later in her life, Betty, being now a respected old lady, skipped through the records of her grandchild. She was surprised about a song named "Smoke on the Water". Oh no, not because she was interested in that style. No, because she remembered the band's name (nothing smoky!) from an old record of the 30s. Did this band get its name from that song of her memory?

Answer: yes

"When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky
Through the mist of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh
In the still of the night once again I hold you tight"

"Deep Purple" was the biggest hit written by Peter DeRose in 1933, and quite a seller as an example of the then popular sheet music. In 1938 Mitchell Parish added lyrics to the up 'til that moment instrumental piece.

End of 1938, Larry Clinton and his orchestra together with singer Bea Wain recorded it. In the begin of 1939 the song was number one on the U.S. popular music charts for nine weeks.

Ritchie Blackmore's (guitarist and songwriter of Deep Purple) grandmother loved this song and she did play it on piano. Who would have thought that a hard rock band would choose the name after granny's favourite song? Especially as "in the still of the night" does not quite harmonize with that genre!


About the picture: hard rocks and a deep purple filling the rest of the picture.
10. 1939, the end of a turbulent decade. Betty put a Glenn Miller song on the gramophone. The original song dates back to 1869 and what liquid was in that little brown jug?

Answer: alcohol

"Me and my wife live all alone
In a little log hut we're all our own;
She loves gin and I love rum,
And don't we have a lot of fun!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!"

Glenn Miller's version was instrumental, but it was already published in 1869 by Joseph Eastburn Winner and was a drinking song. It is about a married couple who gets all their fun by getting drunk. It was again popular while Prohibition was around. Miller and his orchestra had an early chart hit in 1939.

Cheers!
Source: Author heidi66

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