If you got All Shook Up by yesterday's quiz, don't go Crying In The Chapel this Sunday morning. Here's a little Peace In The Valley instead... the answers!
Rain led to a low turn-out yesterday morning, but Lynchie nabbed the early, easy ones. Maybe this quiz is getting too difficult. Maybe it's run its course. Not far from 100... perhaps I'll retire it with the century.
In the meantime... a quick trot through the answers this week with A Little Less Conversation than usual as I'm too tired to write loads.
10. Played by Dexys' error... so good they named him twice.
When Dexys appeared on Top of the Pops singing Jackie Wilson Said, they had a huge picture of Jocky Wilson behind them. Various stories about how this happened - a mistake on the part of the production team or (more likely) Kevin Rowland's wicked sense of humour.
Anyway, Jocky Wilson was a darts player.
New York, New York was so good they named it twice, according to Gerard Kenny.
Darts - The Boy From New York City
9. Steve Rogers & Johnny Storm.
One I discovered via The Vinyl Villain... though you have to know your comics characters to get the clues. (They changed their name to Eugenius after this release to avoid getting sued by Marvel.)
Steve Rogers is Captain America.
Johnny Storm is the Human Torch. His catch phrase is "Flame On!"
Captain America - Flame On!
8. Mother Walrus meets ex-Kennedy for wet fun.
John Lennon was the Walrus. His mum was Julia.
Jaqueline Kennedy became Jackie O after she was widowed.
Julia Jaclyn - Pool Party
7. Tin Tin's useless investigators give away their identity.
C correctly identified that the gent in the centre of this pic wasn't actually Joe Leeway from The Thompson Twins, but Eddie Grant. My bad, with apologies to all concerned.
The Thompson Twins were named after bumbling detectives in the Tin Tin comics.
The Thompson Twins - We Are Detective
(I planned this post weeks ago... a weird coincidence then that this song featured here in a different post just a couple of days ago.)
6. Chimp spreads fertiliser on Russian park while getting down to Whitesnake.
Gorky Park.
A zygote is the cell formed by the fertilisation of two gametes. Obviously.
A mynci sounds like a monkey.
Whitesnake were dismissed in the 80s as poodle rockers because of hair like this...
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Poodle Rockin'
5. Scottish saint / mouse enjoys the sunshine.
Mungo was a Scottish saint, apparently.
Jerry was a mouse.
Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
4. Part of 5, partner of one of 9... coming from the north west.
Jerry was part of #5.
One of Johnny (#9) Storm's partners in the Fantastic Four was Reed Richards.
Jerry Reed - Eastbound & Down
3. Hell rises... it's not me.
"Hell rises" was an anagram.
The Shirelles - Baby, It's You
2. Sound like they're Riders on the Storm... on the best mixtape you ever made.
As I've written about previously, Dawes are a pretty good band... with a very silly name, considering that they sound exactly the far more famous group from the 60s led by Jim Morrison.
Dawes - All Your Favourite Bands
1. No charge... OK at this time?
Easy, right?
Don't Cry, Daddy - Saturday Snapshots will be back next week.
St Mungo is a saint associated with Glasgow where he has received the ultimate accolades of a mural and having a beer named after him
ReplyDeleteI like to believe Dawes were named after the 1970s bicycle company.
ReplyDeleteAccording to John Lennon in the song "Glass Onion"....
ReplyDelete"Well here's another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul."
Surely this invalidates the answer to Number 8?
I'd like to add that when I was 14, I had a Dawes racing bike.
Yes, but according to Ferris Bueller, John was the Walrus. I believe Ferris.
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DeleteYou trust the word of a young man who constantly tells lies???!!!
DeleteMaybe that's where I've been going wrong...
DeleteThat was in the 1960's. Dawes Cycles Limited was formed in 1926.
ReplyDeletehttps://dawescycles.com/about-us/
My sore neck and shoulder is still giving me jip so finally got to sleep at about 5pm on Friday night - When I woke at 8.45am, Mr WIAA greeted me with the devastating news, “I think you’ve missed Saturday Snapshots”. He know me too well.
ReplyDeleteWe all love SS so please don’t retire it if you have the stamina to keep going - Just that life sometimes gets in the way. As it turns out I would only have got the Darts, Shirelles and TT clues. Those poodle rockers remind me of Mr WIAA’s cousins’ band although I think I classed them as hair metal (now all bald as coots of course).
That should have been 5am of course - Oh to get that amount of sleep.
DeleteBrilliant as always Rol. 87 already, I don't know how you do it, I reallyd don't. I hope you'll keep it going forever, but if you need a well-earned breather after the (first!) centenary, we'll understand.
ReplyDeleteAnother fun quiz! Isn't Julia Jaclyn called "Jacklin"? Probably just a typo. Her second album Crushing was released in February, I haven't heard it, though the reviews are very positive.
ReplyDeleteProbably. It's been a very long weekend!
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