Another test for the old people (like me)

[DG Hear]

A TEST FOR OLD KIDS?

So have some fun my sharp-witted friends. This is a test for us 'old kids'! The answers are printed below, but don't cheat.

01.After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.

02.When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show..

03'Get your kicks, __________________.'

04.'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ___________________.'

05.'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.'

06.After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____________.'

07.Nestle's makes the very best . . . . _______________.'

08.Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.' Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09.What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________..

10.Red Skeleton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, 'Good Night, and '________ ________. '

11.Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.

12.The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________ & _______________.

13.In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.' This was a tribute to ___________________.

14.We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.

15.One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the __ ______________.







ANSWERS :
01.The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02.The Ed Sullivan Show
03.On Route 66
04.To protect the innocent.?
05.The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06.The limbo
07.Chocolate
08.Louis Armstrong
09.The Timex watch
10.Freddy, The Freeloader and 'Good Night and God Bless.'
11.Draft cards (Bras were also burned...? Not flags, as some have guessed)
12.Beetle or Bug
13.Buddy Holly
14.Sputnik
15.Hoola-hoop

 

[MicKay]

The good news - I got all but #10 right!
The bad news - I'm officially old.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I missed a couple but I know I'm old. That's another reason I'm retiring!

 

[Austin8]

The Bad News is I missed several.

The Good News is I'm not old! Yay!

stop posting the answers Dg! : >

 

[TE999]

A perfect score, but considering I lived through all of it I'm not surprised. The day I get none of them right..."Houston, we have a problem."

 

[MicKay]

Great, now I get to look forward to getting "too old"!

 

[TE999]

Great, now I get to look forward to getting "too old"!

The alternative's no day at the beach.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

All correct, though I don't really agree with "American Pie" being a tribute to Buddy Holly; it's far more complex than that, and an even stronger case can be made for JFK as the death, and the music that dies was the whole sense of rock&roll's simple pleasures. After all, when LBJ came in, "the marching band refused to yield" and "Lennon read a book on Marx."

 

[Weird Harold]

02.When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show..


02.The Ed Sullivan Show

I don't know about the rest of my generation, but I watched the Beatles first come to the US on the Walter Cronkite and on Huntley and Brinkley long before Ed got around to introducing them on his "Rilly Big Shew."

13.In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.' This was a tribute to ___________________.
...
13.Buddy Holly

I saidthe tribute was to all of the stars that died in the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly. Richy Valens and The Big Bopper also died that night and the last line sof American Pie suggest that the song was a tribute to alll three:


And the three men I admire most The Father Son and Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
And they were singing...

 

[Weird Harold]

The alternative's no day at the beach.

A day at the beach can cause skin cancer and keep you from getting old.

 

[Seurat]

"The day the music died" was a phrase coined to commemorate the plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valenz, and the Big Bopper.

Yes, I got the question right, and I am therefor old.

Bonus question: What performer dodged the bullet, and didn't get on the plane?

 

[Niriate]

I got several right, and I wasn't even born at that year yet

And no, I didn't cheat.

 

[george51]

I got 10, which i think is reasonable, considering I am not in America.

Missed the Lone Ranger one though. Can't believe that...

 

[DG Hear]

"The day the music died" was a phrase coined to commemorate the plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valenz, and the Big Bopper.

Yes, I got the question right, and I am therefor old.

Bonus question: What performer dodged the bullet, and didn't get on the plane?

Here is the story about the plain crash. Questions answered.:
DG



On a cold winter's night a small private plane took off from Clear Lake, Iowa bound for Fargo, N.D. It never made its destination.

When that plane crashed, it claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson and the pilot, Roger Peterson. Three of Rock and Roll's most promising performers were gone. As Don McLean wrote in his classic music parable, American Pie, (annotated) it was "the day the music died."

Performing in concert was very profitable, and Buddy Holly needed the money it provided. "The Winter Dance Party Tour" was planned to cover 24 cities in a short 3 week time frame (January 23 - February 15) and Holly would be the biggest headliner. Waylon Jennings, a friend from Lubbock, Texas and Tommy Allsup would go as backup musicians.

Ritchie Valens, probably the hottest of the artists at the time, The Big Bopper, and Dion and the Belmonts would round out the list of performers.

The tour bus developed heating problems. It was so cold onboard that reportedly one of the drummers developed frostbite riding in it. When they arrived at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, they were cold, tired and disgusted.

Buddy Holly had had enough of the unheated bus and decided to charter a plane for himself and his guys. At least he could get some laundry done before the next performance!

That night at the Surf Ballroom was magical as the fans went wild over the performers.

Jiles P. Richardson, known as The Big Bopper to his fans, was a Texas D.J. who found recording success and fame in 1958 with the song Chantilly Lace.

Richie Valenzuela was only 16 years old when Del-Fi record producer, Bob Keane, discovered the Pacoima, California singer. Keane rearranged his name to Ritchie Valens, and in 1958 they recorded Come On, Let's Go. Far more successful was the song Valens wrote for his girlfriend, Donna, and its flip side, La Bamba, a Rock and Roll version of an old Mexican standard. This earned the teenager an appearance on American Bandstand and the prospect of continued popularity.

Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (changed to Holly due to a misspelling on a contract) and his band, The Crickets, had a number one hit in 1957 with the tune That'll Be The Day. This success was follwed by Peggy Sue and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. By 1959, Holly had decided to move in a new direction. He and the Crickets parted company. Holly married Maria Elena Santiago and moved to New York with the hope of concentrating on song writing and producing.


Dwyer Flying Service got the charter. $36 per person for a single engine Beechcraft Bonanza.

No, the plane wasn't named American Pie. It only had serial numbers, N3794N.

Waylon Jennings gave his seat up to Richardson, who was running a fever and had trouble fitting his stocky frame comfortably into the bus seats.

When Holly learned that Jennings wasn't going to fly, he said, "Well, I hope your old bus freezes up." Jennings responded, "Well, I hope your plane crashes." This friendly banter of friends would haunt Jennings for years.

Allsup told Valens, I'll flip you for the remaining seat. On the toss of a coin, Valens won the seat and Allsup the rest of his life.

The plane took off a little after 1 A.M. from Clear Lake and never got far from the airport before it crashed, killing all onboard.

A cold N.E wind immediately gave way to a snow which drastically reduced visibility. The ground was already blanketed in white. The pilot may have been inexperienced with the instrumentation.

One wing hit the ground and the small plane corkscrewed over and over. The three young stars were thrown clear of the plane, leaving only pilot Roger Peterson inside.

Over the years there has been much speculation as to whether a shot was fired inside the plane which disabled or killed the pilot. Logic suggests that encased in a sea of white snow, with only white below, Peterson just flew the plane into the ground.

Read the Coroner's Report or the Civil Aeronautics Board Report for more info.


Deciding that the show must go on at the next stop, Moorhead, MN, they looked for local talent to fill in. Just across the state line from Moorhead, in Fargo ND, they found a 15 year old talent named Bobby Vee.

The crash that ended the lives of Holly, Valens and Richardson was the break that began the career of Vee.

Tommy Allsup would one day open a club named "The Head's Up Saloon," a tribute to the coin toss that saved his life.

Waylon Jennings would become a hugely popular Country singer.

Dion di Mucci would enjoy a long lived solo career.

Inscribed on Ritchie Valens' grave are the words, "Come On, Let's Go."

 

[Seurat]

Here is the story about the plain crash. Questions answered.:
DG

Those of you that know it all are very annoying to those of us that only think we do.

 

[Weird Harold]

Those of you that know it all are very annoying to those of us that only think we do.

Google is annoying? (DG's history lesson is C&P from the site I linked under the Lyrics, which I found with Google .)

 

[DG Hear]

Google is annoying? (DG's history lesson is C&P from the site I linked under the Lyrics, which I found with Google .)

Yes it was, I found it on another search engine, copied and pasted it. I figured it answered some of the questions asked. Believe me there is no way I knew all of that even though I lived through it. I did remember some of it.
With respect
DG

 

[sr71plt]

Twelve and a half right. But in my defense, I spent most of my life outside the States. This doesn't stop me from being old.

 

[TE999]

A day at the beach can cause skin cancer and keep you from getting old.

Heh! I was beaching it before I could walk and I have an excellent dermatologist.

 

[sr71plt]

Here is the story about the plain crash. Questions answered.:
DG

That's one of the questions I missed. I guessed Patsy Cline. Wrong plane crash. Good thing I hadn't guessed Glen Miller--that would have really dated me.

 

[TxRad]

got them all. So that makes me really knowledgeable or very old.

Third option of living through it all.

 

[alwayswantedto]

Can't believe I missed Buddy Holly and Route 66, one of my favorite shows. Do you all remember the names of two main characters (one with dark hair and one blonde) and the actors that played them?

 

[Weird Harold]

Can't believe I missed Buddy Holly and Route 66, one of my favorite shows. Do you all remember the names of two main characters (one with dark hair and one blonde) and the actors that played them?

no.

(I thought I could, but Google said I was wrong I the pairing I guessed right but was 11 off on the show's number. )

 

[DG Hear]

Can't believe I missed Buddy Holly and Route 66, one of my favorite shows. Do you all remember the names of two main characters (one with dark hair and one blonde) and the actors that played them?

Kookie Kookie~ Edd Burns & Connie Stevens
Check out their song on this web site.

http://carolynspreciousmemories.com/50s/kookie.html

This was route 77.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I got all of them.

I always catch the mistakes in historical movies.