Classic Music Trivia

The music trivia podcast that features questions and answers from music, television and movies from the 1960's through the 1980's with your host, Funtime Freddy!

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Episode #18 "Connect Four" answers:

  1. We Are The World 
  2. We're Stars 
  3. Tears Are Not Enough 
  4. Do Something Now 

The theme was "songs performed for charity".

"Switchboard" prize round answers:

Column A
1. Best of My Love – Emotions
Year – 1977
Album – Rejoice
Column B
3. Best of My Love - The Eagles
Year – 1975
Album – On The Border

Column A
2. Fire - Ohio Players
Year – 1974
Album – Fire
Column B
5. Fire - Pointer Sisters
Year – 1978
Album - Energy

Column A
3. I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee
Year – 1960
Album – single
Column B
4. I'm Sorry - John Denver
Year – 1975
Album - Windsong

Column A
4. My Love - Paul McCartney and Wings
Year – 1973
Album – Red Rose Speedway
Column B
1. My Love - Petula Clark
Year – 1965
Album – My Love

Column A
5. Venus - Frankie Avalon
Year – 1959
Album – single
Column B
2. Venus - The Shocking Blue
Year – 1969
Album – At Home

Out of the two entries that I had for this game, the one that got all of the pairings exactly right was Steve from Syracuse, NY.  The other entry got all but one pairing correct, so well done to you too.

Since the show’s popularity and listenership hasn’t really grown in the four months that I’ve been hosting it, despite all of my promotional efforts, and along with other reasons, I have decided to make this episode the final episode of Classic Music Trivia.  Thank you for listening and for your words of encouragement.  I will keep the weblog and e-mail account active for a couple of weeks so that you can download any past episodes before they go away.  You can leave me an e-mail at cmtquizmaster@gmail.com if you wish and I’ll respond as soon as I can.

So as the saying goes, “I’ll see you around the galaxy”.  Take care, and all my best.

Funtime Freddy


This week's ending background music is called "The Party's Over" by Willie Nelson from his album "The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs" released in 1967.

Direct download: Show_19.mp3
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It's a Valentine's Day special!

If you are looking for the photo of the custom-made tee shirt that my partner Tommy made as the prize for "Switchboard", I don't have one to show yet since Tommy hasn't completed the shirt yet.  We thought he'd have it done in time for publishing, but alas, not yet.  As soon as it's ready, I'll take a photo of it and post.

This week's background music is called "Love Is A Many Splendid Thing" by "The Fascinating Strings" from their album "Musical Memories" released in 2006.

Direct download: Show_18.mp3
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Introducing a new game called "Switchboard".

As I mentioned in Show 15, one of the things I want to try with CMT is a random prize round, emphasizing again that the prizes would be good ones – prizes you’d want to play for.  Well in today’s episode I’ve done just that.  But remember I said you’d have to answer some questions to win, because the lucky winner will get either a custom-made slip-over shirt crafted by your friends here at CMT, or a $20 gift voucher from Amazon.com to spend any way you like – we’re not certain yet which one, but I’ll let you know for sure on the next episode.

Also as promised last week, I have another new game for us to play, and it’s a prize round called “Switchboard”.

For this game, I presented 2 sets of clips and you have to connect a clip from one set (let’s call it “Column A”) to its matching clip in the second set (let’s call it “Column B”). Since this is a random prize round, I’ll collect all the entries and reveal the correct answers in Show 19.  This will allow you time to e-mail me your answers to as many pairings as you can.  The one who gets the most pairings right wins the prize.  And in the case of multiple winners, a random drawing will be held on Show 19 to determine the winner.

So in today’s “Switchboard”, I have 5 song titles that appear once in each column (that’s Column A and Column B). For example, if I were to play Olivia Newton-John's "Suddenly" in Column A song 1, and Billy Ocean's "Suddenly" in Column B song 4, you would e-mail in the answer “Column A song 1 and Column B song 4 are both named 'Suddenly" while also providing the respective artist names.  Get it?  And make sure you have all your answers in one e-mail as I’ll only accept one entry per person.  Alright then, best of luck!

Funtime Freddy.

Direct download: Show_17.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:23 PM
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