Quiz on music from the 1960s and 1970s.

Quiz on music from the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 1 of 10

What state's girls provided #1 songs for both the Beach Boys and Katy Perry, leading the former to demand a songwriting credit from the latter?

Question 2 of 10

When asked what this song means, Don McLean says it means, "I never have to work again." What song?

Question 3 of 10

Who plays tambourine, and not drums, on the version of the Beatles' Love Me Do everybody heard in the 1960s?

Question 4 of 10

What rain-obsessed band wanted to know "Who'll Stop The Rain" in 1970 and in 1971 asked "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"

Question 5 of 10

Elton John definitely was not singing, "Hold me closer, Tony Danza." What was he singing?

Question 6 of 10

The dominant 7#9 chord is nicknamed for what musician, who used it in Purple Haze and implied it in Foxy Lady?

Question 7 of 10

I was originally a country star, and the Comets were originally called the Saddlemen. Who am I?

Question 8 of 10

Which of these songs was based on O Sole Mio, by operatic tenor Mario Lanza and included phrasing rather like Dean Martin's?

Question 9 of 10

Many bands have picked names that make them sound like solo acts. Which of these acts is, in fact, a solo act?

Question 10 of 10

Fats Domino was "walking to" what birthplace of his, where he was later rescued by a Coast Guard chopper after Hurricane Katrina?