Mixed Music Bag # 7 – ballads

For Glyn’s challenge:

Music Quiz #7 – Big Ballads

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The questions:

1. Which Sinatra ballad began life as “Comme D’Habitude”?

2. Connie Francis had a 1958 #1 with “Who’s Sorry Now?”, but in which decade was the song written?

3. Which song from La Cage Aux Folles was a hit for Gloria Gaynor?

4. Which Platters hit begins “They asked me How I Knew”?

5. Which 1970 Elvis Presley UK #1 was recorded live in Las Vegas?

6. Who was the biggest selling UK artist in the 1967 “Summer of Love”?

7. What was Madonna’s first UK hit of 1997?

8. Which song took Whitney Houston to the top of the UK charts in 1988?

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My answers:

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1. Come Dancing

2. The 1940s

3. I Will Survive

4. I Heard It Through the Grapevine

5. Viva Las Vegas

6.Rod Stewart

7. Like a Virgin

8. I Will Always Love You

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Answers posted next week. No Googlin’.

Here are the answers to the Rock Rebels quiz:

1. Madonna
2. The Who
3. (Alice) Cooper
4. (Marianne) Faithfull
5. (Jimi) Hendrix
6. (Marvin) Gaye
7. John Lennon
8. (Eric) Clapton

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