Author Topic: Riddle me this (Read 5017 times)

ReCycled · « **on:** March 03, 2009, 02:24:21 PM »

Ok it's not so much a riddle but a music trivia question.

What top 10 song had four words in the title which all started with the same letter? I'll add more clues if no one gets it right away.

Clue #1 - The artist's name also starts with the same letter.

ReCycled · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:39:23 PM »

Clue #2 - This song was first a hit in 1929. It was recorded again in the 60s.

peewee_RotA · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:55:00 PM »

Bye Bye Black Bird?

ReCycled · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:07:00 PM »

Quote from: peewee_RotA on March 03, 2009, 05:55:00 PM

Bye Bye Black Bird?

Excellent guess but that's not it. Also the recording artist's name would also have to begin with "b". Don't know who that would be. But you're in the right genre of older music.

peewee_RotA · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:14:01 PM »

Quote from: ReCycled on March 03, 2009, 06:07:00 PM

Quote from: peewee_RotA on March 03, 2009, 05:55:00 PM
Bye Bye Black Bird?

Excellent guess but that's not it. Also the recording artist's name would also have to begin with "b". Don't know who that would be. But you're in the right genre of older music.

It was 1926 actually, had to wikipedia it. The original recording artist did not have a B for the first name. It also only peaked at 16th.

As long as it's an older song I'll probably already know the song without looking it up with a few more clues.

ReCycled · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:30:04 PM »

Ok as long as your answer is like:

Z_______ Z_______ Z_______ Z____ by Z____ Z____

where "Z" is the key letter they begin with. (and no, they don't begin with z).

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2009, 03:19:37 AM »

I'm almost ashamed to know this, but...

Tiptoe Through the Tulips - Tiny Tim (originally by Nick Lucas)

PAY ME NOW!

Had me scratching my head for a while, but back then Tiny Tim was considered pop, while these days it would only be considered childrens tunes.

peewee_RotA · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2009, 04:57:29 AM »

So the artist from the 60's is the one that rhymes, not the original artist?

I have the greatest hits for Nick Lucas. I ruled him out because I thought that all of his releases in 1929 were his other movie tunes.

(I personally think that Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, and Rose Colored Glasses are better songs. Although he has some solo guitar instrumentals that are really really cool)

ReCycled · « **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2009, 08:20:54 AM »

Damn Focalor....nice work. Now did you really know this, or did you Google the hell out of the info I gave you?

Oh and my bad - apparently it only charted to #17, but back then everybody knew the song and the bizarre personaility who sang it.

QwazyWabbit · « **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2009, 04:24:08 PM »

Baritone? LOL!

Sgt. Dick · « **Reply #10 on:** March 04, 2009, 05:19:20 PM »

He might have been a baritone who just tightened a clamp around his nuts before he sang

peewee_RotA · « **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2009, 05:58:17 PM »

Just to point out the whole point of the joke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_EAnFlv70

His entire act was based on Nick Lucas who played a huge part in popularizing the guitar (even having the model Nick Lucas Special named after him). That's the purpose of the ukulele. The high pitched voice is a direct poke at Nick Lucas' unusual high pitched singing.

Great comparative example:
Side By Side - Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNxRdYihOa0&feature=related
Side By Side - Nick Lucas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjNX_gayY1E

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2009, 03:46:05 AM »

Quote from: ReCycled on March 04, 2009, 08:20:54 AM

Damn Focalor....nice work. Now did you really know this, or did you Google the hell out of the info I gave you?

Oh and my bad - apparently it only charted to #17, but back then everybody knew the song and the bizarre personaility who sang it.

Nah, I didn't instantly know the answer, like I said, it had me scratching my head for a while. The second clue narrowed it down an awful lot. At that point I began thinking it had to be some kind of blues/folk song from the late 20's converted to rock, kinda like Led Zeppelin and the Allman Brothers did on a few occasions.

I didn't even really know who Tiny Tim was until I saw him make an appearance on Maury Povich not long before he died. Before that, I recalled seeing little clips of him singing that song somewhere else on TV, possibly on PeeWee's Playhouse or some freakishly weird horror movie.

I'm pretty good at music trivia, I can absorb and remember all kinds of little factoids about bands and songs that I don't even like. I wish I had the same ability to retain information about other subjects, especially math. Maybe then I wouldn't have obliterated my GPA and been put on academic probation before finally dropping out, hehe.

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #13 on:** March 05, 2009, 08:08:02 AM »

Sound like the radio from Fallout 3

great music to set the overall tone of the game.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #14 on:** March 05, 2009, 12:14:52 PM »

Quote from: [BTF]Sigma on March 05, 2009, 08:08:02 AM

Sound like the radio from Fallout 3 great music to set the overall tone of the game.

Hank Williams ftw!

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