Doo Wop Quiz

[DG Hear]

Doo Wop Oldies Quiz

Let us know how you did.
DG


Thirty great memories about music that caused our parents and teachers grief!

Take the quiz and see how you score as a true ''Oldies Fan.''
Write down your answers and check them against the answers at the end.
(Answers Below)

Don't cheat, now !

1. When did ''Little Suzie'' finally wake up?
(a) The movie's over, it's 2 o'clock
(b) The movie's over, it's 3 o'clock
(c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock

2. ''Rock Around The Clock'' was used in what movie?
(a) Rebel Without A Cause
(b) Blackboard Jungle
(c) The Wild Ones

3. What's missing from a Rock & Roll standpoint? Earth _____
(a) Angel
(b) Mother
(c) Worm

4. ''I found my thrill . . .'' where?
(a) Kansas City
(b) Heartbreak Hotel
(c) Blueberry Hill

5. ''Please turn on your magic beam,__________ bring me a dream,'':
(a) Mr... Sandman
(b) Earth Angel
(c) Dream Lover

6. For which label did Elvis Presley first record?
(a) Atlantic
(b) RCA
(c) Sun

7.. He asked, ''Why's everybody always pickin' on me?'' Who was he?
(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
(b) Charlie Brown
(c) Buster Brown

8. In Bobby Darin's ''Mack The Knife,'' the one with the knife, was named:
(a) MacHeath
(b) MacCloud
(c) MacNamara

9. Name the song with ''A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.''
(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly
(b) Be-Bop-A-Lula
(c) Tutti Fruitti

10. Who is generally given credit for originating the term ''Rock And Roll''?
(a) Dick Clark
(b) Wolfman Jack
(c) Alan Freed

11. In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:
(a) Little Richard
(b) Frankie Lymon
(c) Tony Orlando

12 Paul Anka's ''Puppy Love'' is written to what star?
(a) Brenda Lee
(b) Connie Francis
(c) Annette Funicello

13. The Everly Brothers are . . ...
(a) Pete and Dick
(b) Don and Phil
(c) Bob and Bill

14. The Big Bopper's real name was:
(a) Jiles P. Richardson
(b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
(c) Marion Michael Morrison

15. In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr., started a small record company called...
(a) Decca
(b) Cameo
(c) Motown

16. Edd Brynes had a hit with ''Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb''.. What TV show was he on?
(a) 77 Sunset Strip
(b) Hawaiian Eye
(c) Surfside Six

17 In 1960 Bobby Darin married:
(a) Carol Lynley
(b) Sandra Dee
(c) Natalie Wood

18 They were a one hit wonder with ''Book Of Love'':
(a) The Penguins
(b) The Monotones
(c) The Moonglows

19. The Everly Brothers sang a song called ''Till I ______ You.''
(a) Loved
(b) Kissed
(c) Met

20. Chuck Berry sang ''Oh,___________, why can't you be true?''
(a) Suzie Q
(b) Peggy Sue
(c) Maybelline

21. ''Wooly_______''
(a) Mammouth
(b) Bully
(c) Pully

22. ''I'm like a one-eyed cat . . . ."
(a) can't go into town no more
(b) sleepin' on a cold hard floor
(c) peepin' in a seafood store

23. ''Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do . . . . ...''
(a) cause there ain't no answer for a life without booze
(b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
(c) cause my car's gassed up and I'm ready to cruise

24. ''They often call me Speedo, but my real name is . .. . . . .''
(a) Mr. Earl
(b) Jackie Pearl
(c) Milton Berle

25. ''You're my Fanny and nobody else's ....''
(a) girl
(b) butt
(c) love

26. ''I want you to play with my . . . ''
(a) heart
(b) dreams
(c) ding a ling

27. ''Be Bop A Lula ....''
(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
(c) she loves me, maybe

28. ''Fine Love, Fine Kissing ....''
(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
(c) just for you

29 ''He wore black denim trousers and . . .''
(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
(c) motorcycle boots

30. ''I got a gal named . . .''
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney




Answers:
* * * * * * * * * * * *
1 (c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock
2. (b) Blackboard Jungle
3. (a) Angel
4. (c) Blueberry Hill
5. (a) Mr. Sandman
6. (c) Sun
7. (b) Charlie Brown
8. (a) Mac Heath
9. (c) Tutti Fruitti
10.. (c) Alan Freed
11. (a) Little Richard
12. (c) Annette Funicello
13. (b) Don and Phil
14. (a) Jiles P. Richardson
15. (c) Motown
16. (a) 77 Sunset Strip
17. (b) Sandra Dee
18. (b) The Monotones
19. (b) Kissed
20. (c) Maybelline
21. (b) Bully
22. (c) peepin' in a seafood store
23. (b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
24. (a) Mr.. Earl
25. (b) butt
26. (c) ding a ling
27. (b) she's my baby
28. (a) right here
29. (c) motorcycle boots
30. (c) Boney Maroney

Forward to everyone lucky enough to be teenagers in the Doo Wop era.
________
ROCK ON!

 

[Stella_Omega]

that should read; Kurt Weil's "Mack the Knife" as sung by Bobby Darin.

other than that, fun stuff!

here's a couple more for you;

What did Little Egypt wear? And what did she sing?

What kind of biscuit do you throw on the wall and it bounces back?

And.. how many minutes was that man?

 

[TE999]

that should read; Kurt Weil's "Mack the Knife" as sung by Bobby Darin.

other than that, fun stuff!

here's a couple more for you;

What did Little Egypt wear? And what did she sing?

What kind of biscuit do you throw on the wall and it bounces back?

And.. how many minutes was that man?

I got 26 out of 30.

A button and a bow. Yeeeaah. Yeeeaaah! (The Coasters)

(You got me there)

60 Minute Man (The Cadets?...umm...nope...they did 'Stranded in the Jungle')

 

[Verdad]

Heh, I got 14 out of 30, and even that kind of surprised me!

 

[R. Richard]

I got 29 out of 30. It helps quite a bit that I collect 50s, 60s rock and roll.

 

[buxxxom]

that should read; Kurt Weil's "Mack the Knife" as sung by Bobby Darin.

other than that, fun stuff!

here's a couple more for you;

What did Little Egypt wear? And what did she sing?

What kind of biscuit do you throw on the wall and it bounces back?

And.. how many minutes was that man?

25 out of 30, but a couple were lucky guesses

Rubber Biscuit!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Little Egypt sang "Ying Yang, (gitchee, gitchee gitchee)"

Damned if I know why, either, but the Coasters were funny guys!

Sixty Minute Man was the Dominoes, and I had JUST gotten a link to a youtube vid minutes before I read this post, otherwise I wouldn't know either. My linker claims it was the very first rock and roll song evah.

 

[R. Richard]

The reason behind the Coasters was Lieber & Stoller.

 

[Emperor_Nero]

I got 28 out of 30

And I had always heard the first Rock n Roll song was Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats (which was really Ike Turner's band Kings of Rhythm).

At least that's what Sam Phillips claims (it was recorded at Sun).

If you haven't heard it, you should give it a listen -- Little Richard stole Ike's piano intro note for note to start Good Golly Miss Molly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

 

[TE999]

I got 28 out of 30

And I had always heard the first Rock n Roll song was Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats (which was really Ike Turner's band Kings of Rhythm).

At least that's what Sam Phillips claims (it was recorded at Sun).

If you haven't heard it, you should give it a listen -- Little Richard stole Ike's piano intro note for note to start Good Golly Miss Molly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

That's what I've always heard. I've also heard that 'Little Darlin' by the Diamonds was the first 'Rap' song...I dunno about that...I'd say Bo Diddleys 'Say Man' and 'Say Man Back Again' were a lot closer to Rap...or maybe none of the above...listen and judge for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_LVtatBsU (The Diamonds)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWgNKUMlzM (Bo)

 

[Tio_Narratore]

26 out of 30, and Kurt Weil wrote the music for Mac the Knife. The lyrics are an English adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Moritat vom Mackie Messer from Die Dreigroschenoper(The Three Penny Opera).

 

[R. Richard]

I got 28 out of 30

And I had always heard the first Rock n Roll song was Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats (which was really Ike Turner's band Kings of Rhythm).

At least that's what Sam Phillips claims (it was recorded at Sun).

If you haven't heard it, you should give it a listen -- Little Richard stole Ike's piano intro note for note to start Good Golly Miss Molly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

Jackie Brenston was a saxophone player in Ike Turner's band. For whatever reason, Rocket 88 was released under the name of a band that never existed. And, yes, people should give it a listen. It was the forerunner of a lot of later rock 'n' roll and still sounds way ahead of its time.

 

[Emperor_Nero]

That's what I've always heard. I've also heard that 'Little Darlin' by the Diamonds was the first 'Rap' song...I dunno about that...I'd say Bo Diddleys 'Say Man' and 'Say Man Back Again' were a lot closer to Rap...or maybe none of the above...listen and judge for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_LVtatBsU (The Diamonds)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWgNKUMlzM (Bo)

I suppose it probably comes down to what your definition of rap is. I mean spoken word rhyming lyrics set over music probably goes back well over a hundred years -- well before any music was even recorded.

 

[oggbashan]

I suppose it probably comes down to what your definition of rap is. I mean spoken word rhyming lyrics set over music probably goes back well over a hundred years -- well before any music was even recorded.

Gilbert and Sullivan wrote rap music and lyrics - in the 19th Century - but they called them "patter songs". They didn't claim originality even then.

During the run of a particular G&S production they would amend the patter songs to make them topical.

Og

 

[Handley_Page]

Gilbert and Sullivan wrote rap music and lyrics - in the 19th Century - but they called them "patter songs". They didn't claim originality even then.

During the run of a particular G&S production they would amend the patter songs to make them topical.

Og

maybe (I love 'em) but at least Sullivan wrote a tune for them!

 

[oggbashan]

maybe (I love 'em) but at least Sullivan wrote a tune for them!

And Gilbert insisted that his words should be clearly enuniciated.

Og

 

[Boxlicker101]

Doo Wop Oldies Quiz

Let us know how you did.
DG


Thirty great memories about music that caused our parents and teachers grief!

Take the quiz and see how you score as a true ''Oldies Fan.''
Write down your answers and check them against the answers at the end.
(Answers Below)

Don't cheat, now !

1. When did ''Little Suzie'' finally wake up?
(a) The movie's over, it's 2 o'clock
(b) The movie's over, it's 3 o'clock
(c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock

2. ''Rock Around The Clock'' was used in what movie?
(a) Rebel Without A Cause
(b) Blackboard Jungle
(c) The Wild Ones

3. What's missing from a Rock & Roll standpoint? Earth _____
(a) Angel
(b) Mother
(c) Worm

4. ''I found my thrill . . .'' where?
(a) Kansas City
(b) Heartbreak Hotel
(c) Blueberry Hill

5. ''Please turn on your magic beam,__________ bring me a dream,'':
(a) Mr... Sandman
(b) Earth Angel
(c) Dream Lover

6. For which label did Elvis Presley first record?
(a) Atlantic
(b) RCA
(c) Sun

7.. He asked, ''Why's everybody always pickin' on me?'' Who was he?
(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
(b) Charlie Brown
(c) Buster Brown

8. In Bobby Darin's ''Mack The Knife,'' the one with the knife, was named:
(a) MacHeath
(b) MacCloud
(c) MacNamara

9. Name the song with ''A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.''
(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly
(b) Be-Bop-A-Lula
(c) Tutti Fruitti

10. Who is generally given credit for originating the term ''Rock And Roll''?
(a) Dick Clark
(b) Wolfman Jack
(c) Alan Freed

11. In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:
(a) Little Richard
(b) Frankie Lymon
(c) Tony Orlando

12 Paul Anka's ''Puppy Love'' is written to what star?
(a) Brenda Lee
(b) Connie Francis
(c) Annette Funicello

13. The Everly Brothers are . . ...
(a) Pete and Dick
(b) Don and Phil
(c) Bob and Bill

14. The Big Bopper's real name was:
(a) Jiles P. Richardson
(b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
(c) Marion Michael Morrison

15. In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr., started a small record company called...
(a) Decca
(b) Cameo
(c) Motown

16. Edd Brynes had a hit with ''Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb''.. What TV show was he on?
(a) 77 Sunset Strip
(b) Hawaiian Eye
(c) Surfside Six

17 In 1960 Bobby Darin married:
(a) Carol Lynley
(b) Sandra Dee
(c) Natalie Wood

18 They were a one hit wonder with ''Book Of Love'':
(a) The Penguins
(b) The Monotones
(c) The Moonglows

19. The Everly Brothers sang a song called ''Till I ______ You.''
(a) Loved
(b) Kissed
(c) Met

20. Chuck Berry sang ''Oh,___________, why can't you be true?''
(a) Suzie Q
(b) Peggy Sue
(c) Maybelline

21. ''Wooly_______''
(a) Mammouth
(b) Bully
(c) Pully

22. ''I'm like a one-eyed cat . . . ."
(a) can't go into town no more
(b) sleepin' on a cold hard floor
(c) peepin' in a seafood store

23. ''Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do . . . . ...''
(a) cause there ain't no answer for a life without booze
(b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
(c) cause my car's gassed up and I'm ready to cruise

24. ''They often call me Speedo, but my real name is . .. . . . .''
(a) Mr. Earl
(b) Jackie Pearl
(c) Milton Berle

25. ''You're my Fanny and nobody else's ....''
(a) girl
(b) butt
(c) love

26. ''I want you to play with my . . . ''
(a) heart
(b) dreams
(c) ding a ling

27. ''Be Bop A Lula ....''
(a) she's got the rabies
(b) she's my baby.
(c) she loves me, maybe

28. ''Fine Love, Fine Kissing ....''
(a) right here
(b) fifty cents
(c) just for you

29 ''He wore black denim trousers and . . .''
(a) a pink carnation
(b) pink leotards
(c) motorcycle boots

30. ''I got a gal named . . .''
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney




Answers:
* * * * * * * * * * * *
1 (c) The movie's over, it's 4 o'clock
2. (b) Blackboard Jungle
3. (a) Angel
4. (c) Blueberry Hill
5. (a) Mr. Sandman
6. (c) Sun
7. (b) Charlie Brown
8. (a) Mac Heath
9. (c) Tutti Fruitti
10.. (c) Alan Freed
11. (a) Little Richard
12. (c) Annette Funicello
13. (b) Don and Phil
14. (a) Jiles P. Richardson
15. (c) Motown
16. (a) 77 Sunset Strip
17. (b) Sandra Dee
18. (b) The Monotones
19. (b) Kissed
20. (c) Maybelline
21. (b) Bully
22. (c) peepin' in a seafood store
23. (b) cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
24. (a) Mr.. Earl
25. (b) butt
26. (c) ding a ling
27. (b) she's my baby
28. (a) right here
29. (c) motorcycle boots
30. (c) Boney Maroney

Forward to everyone lucky enough to be teenagers in the Doo Wop era.
________
ROCK ON!

I had 25 out of 30, but some were educated guesses. The first one should have been "none of the above" because Little Susie was still asleep when the Everly Brothers were singing to her about the time and the movie being over.

 

[Boxlicker101]

According to Wiki, Rocket 88 is about two months older than 60 Minute Man, but pinning down the first recorded R & R song is like pinning down the birth of the Blues. It was probably done sometime in the forties and was a combination of Hillbilly and Jazz and the recording artists were probably Black.

 

[LaRocha]

I went to a doo-wop show last month, Ralph from Happy Days was the MC. It was expensive and kinda shitty. The lameness was off the charts fun though.

On a PBS doo-wop show they kept playing kingston trio, that ain't doo-wop.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Here's one for you:

The lyrics from what teevee show theme-song fit the music for 'Purple Haze' exactly?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I went to a doo-wop show last month, Ralph from Happy Days was the MC. It was expensive and kinda shitty. The lameness was off the charts fun though.

On a PBS doo-wop show they kept playing kingston trio, that ain't doo-wop.

Definitely not, although they were from ther Sixties and later. I don't know the exact definition of Doo-wop, unless it is being used as a synonym of Rock or Rock and Roll or The Bop or Rockabilly. When I heard the expression, I always thought of music with a strong beat and a lot of scat, such as Be bop a lula or Sh-boom or Tutti-Frutti or Hot-diggety-dog.

 

[R. Richard]

According to Wiki, Rocket 88 is about two months older than 60 Minute Man, but pinning down the first recorded R & R song is like pinning down the birth of the Blues. It was probably done sometime in the forties and was a combination of Hillbilly and Jazz and the recording artists were probably Black.

That last is a big part of the problem. RnR didn't just suddenly come about, it was a developmental process. Much of the early approaches to RnR were done by Negro groups. The problem was that the record producers were Caucasian and they had no idea if the new sound would sell. The first RnR breakthrough was Sh-boom. Then, most of the major record labels had to hire an RnR guy, because they had no clue as to what they were listening to.

The problem wasn't limited to record producers or Caucasians. Rocket 88 was recorded by Ike Turner's Rhythm Kings, but was attributed to Jackie Berenson and the Delta Cats. It would seem that Ike didn't want a posssible experimental failure attributed to his group.

 

[Weird Harold]

I don't know the exact definition of Doo-wop, unless it is being used as a synonym of Rock or Rock and Role or The Bop or Rockabilly. When I heard the expression, I always thought of music with a strong beat and a lot of scat, such as Be bop a lula or Sh-boom or Tutti-Frutti or Hot-diggety-dog.

According to Wikipedia, there isn't complete agreement on what is or isn't "doo-wop:"

Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music, which developed in African-American communities in the 1940s and which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. An African-American vocal style known as doo-wop emerged from the streets of northeastern and industrial Midwest cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. With its smooth, consonant vocal harmonies, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented R&B styles of the 1950s and 1960s.​

I've always thought of doo-wop as being three or four part harmony performed a capela or with minimal acoustic acompaniment; by that definition, the Kingston Trio fits even though they were primarily "folk singers."

A lot of the original post's quiz isn't about doo-wop or even really about 50/60s popular music; there is movie trivia, popculture trivia and other non-doo-wop trivia mixed in.

 

[TE999]

Little Egypt sang "Ying Yang, (gitchee, gitchee gitchee)"

Damned if I know why, either, but the Coasters were funny guys!

Sixty Minute Man was the Dominoes, and I had JUST gotten a link to a youtube vid minutes before I read this post, otherwise I wouldn't know either. My linker claims it was the very first rock and roll song evah.

Not according to these lyrics, unless there's another version. I listened to the song too and I think they're the right. It's one of their best songs.

http://www.lyrics.com//little-egypt-lyrics-the-coasters.html Here's the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKm2L79Xbyg Here's the song.

 

[R. Richard]

Not according to these lyrics, unless there's another version. I listened to the song too and I think they're the right. It's one of their best songs.

http://www.lyrics.com//little-egypt-lyrics-the-coasters.html Here's the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKm2L79Xbyg Here's the song.

The lyrics listed are wrong. There's another version of the lyrics where the line is stated as 'ying-ying,' also wrong. The YouTube audio is NOT the Coasters, but a rip off.

I collect 50s 60s RnR and I have the real Coasters version of Little Egypt. I went back and listened to the Coasters version again, just to make sure.