Favorite Music Performers & Music Trivia

I think they've used a wax figure from Madame Tussaud's Musueum in place of Richards the last 10-15 years. Charlie Watts has gotta be a day older than dirt.

They're still the best "garage band" of all time....

 

sugar sugar and jingle jangle I didn't know this one my grand daughter knew it.

 

Anyone know the one hit song by sager and evans?

 

ronjor, I think you're right! That was a GREAT song!

Alrighty, what was the very last song the Beatles (as a group) did?

 

Stumped here, too. The last "video" I remember of them was when they were recording on that rooftop.

 

here is a trophy for that answer

 

the let it be album == the beatles last

 

YES!

 

I don't remember the name

 

one trophy coming up

 

roy head ==treat her right


I cheated

 

ROFL! bigc's got a truck load of trophy's to give out!

Alrighty, here's an uncertain triva question since I can't google for it, so I'll make it a True or False instead.

When Led Zepplin first started out, and didn't have a name yet for their group, someone commented (not sure if it was a member of the Rolling Stones) that their music will go over like a "lead zepplin."

True? Or, false?

 

Roy Head

Roy Head has recorded songs in a variety of styles since the 60's and is most closely associated with his giant hit from 1965 Treat Her Right.

He was born in Three Rivers, Texas in 1943. By the early 60's Roy had formed his own band caled the Traits. He was a country singer but ventured into rock-and-roll. The group signed with the Scepter label in 1964, then moved on to a smaller label called Back Beat. It was here that they would have their most success on the pop charts. They recorded their song Treat Her Right and it entered the pop charts in September of 1965. Released as by Roy Head and the Traits, it reached number two both there and on the R&B charts. Although Roy Head was a white singer he had recorded a song in an R&B style, and thus became part of the mid-60's blue-eyed soul movement that also included groups such as the Righteous Brothers and the Boxtops.

Other songs which had been recorded earlier were reissued, either as by Roy himself or by Roy Head and the Traits. Two of these reached the top forty on the pop charts later in 1965, Just A Little Bit and Apple Of My Eye. Roy and his group recorded with other labels, some of which were too small to promote a record into being recognized nationally. They had three more minor hits in 1966. They reached the top 100 just once more with a minor hit in 1971 titled [The World's Going Up In A] Puff Of Smoke.

Roy Head turned his attentions to the country market in the 70's, and continued to record for a variety of record labels. The country hits began to come and Roy rode the country charts into the mid-80's. The most successful country song he released was The Most Wanted Woman In Town in 1975. Roy released a number of albums in the late 70's and early 80's, and there were some compilations issued in the 90's.

So Roy Head and the Traits had a variety of records issued on a variety of labels. They are basicly a country band that records in a rock-and-roll style, sometimes with an R&B influence. The result is a lot of varied, interesting music. Roy himself is an accomplished guitar player and the group is known for putting on a good show, sometimes along the lines of a James Brown dance revival. The big hit from the the 60's, Treat Her Right, was featured in the movie The Commitments

 

true or maybe false==no true

 

Never heard of them, but Zager and Evans did "In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" in 1969.

1- What were their first names?

2- What TV show used this as their theme song (with a slight change in the lyrics)?

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dak
(An ex-DJ for an oldies-goldies station. I got to play the music I grew up with.)