Friday Night Pub Quiz #19
Welcome to the Rock’n’Roll to Rock Quiz
Test your knowledge of the music scene which developed when late 1950s rock’n’roll morphed into rock music in the mid-1960s.
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Questions – From Rock’n’Roll to Rock Quiz
From Rock’n’Roll to Rock Quiz is all about the music scenes in the UK and America in the first half of the 1960s. The only time in rock’n’roll history, when each side of the Atlantic was doing its own thing.
1.Which American trio had a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1963 with Bob Dylan’s protest anthem Blowing in the Wind?
2. What was the surname of the three brothers in the original Beach Boys?
3. A big hit for Chubby Checker in 1960, who wrote and recorded the original version of The Twist in 1958?
4. The High Numbers released I’m the Face in 1964. Promoted as the “first authentic Mod record”, what did the band change their name to shortly after its release?
5. He released Let’s Go Trippin’ in 1961. Who was known as King of the Surf Guitar?
6. Which legendary 1960s American soul music label used the house band Booker T and the MGs?
7. Andy Warhol’s multi-media Exploding Plastic Inevitable featured which legendary New York band?
8. Tony Sheridan’s group the Jets were one of the first British beat groups to play in Hamburg. Which Liverpool group did Tony Sheridan record My Bonnie with in Hamburg in 1961?
9. Who founded the record label Motown in 1959?
10. John Hammond signed this soon-to-be protest-singing legend to Columbia Records. Sales of his first album were very slow and he became known as “Hammond’s folly”. Who was he?
11. Written by Phil Ochs, who had a UK hit with There But for Fortune in 1965?
12. Cream played their debut gig in July 1966. Which successful pop group did Jack Bruce play with just before he joined Eric and Ginger? Pretty Flamingo was his only single with them.
13. What three-word phrase was used to describe Phil Spector’s music in the first half of the 1960s?
14. In 1965 Small Faces released their first and only single, Whatcha Gonna Do About It, with their original keyboards player. Who was that keyboards player?
15. Who recorded the original version of If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, a hit for Freddie and the Dreamers in 1963?
16. Which Merseybeat group had a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1964 with their cover of Jackie DeShannon’s Needles and Pins?
17. A UK hit for Otis Redding in 1967, who wrote and recorded the original version of Shake in 1965?
18. Which girl group gave Motown its first American #1 single in 1961? (on the Tamla label)
19. After Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in 1959, his Winter Dance Party tour continued with the arrival of two teen idols. Name either of these teen idol replacements?
20. Nat Kendrick and the Swans released (Do the) Mashed Potatoes in 1961. Who was the iconic funk singer who played piano and called out the song’s title?
