PM: BWOD

Yay, I got two last time (Dylan and Beyonc?). The "link" question was awful - "Venice because it's got a bridge in it", albeit a famous one, and S+G did "Bridge over trouble water" - really?

Anyhoo, on to this week, sans Google:

There are loads mind so just choose the ones you fancy.

This week's questions

1. Name up to 10 songs with a girl's name in it: I really can't be arsed.

2. Name the composer's:

* "the heroika symphony" - The Eroica Symphony is Beethoven's Third

* "Rhapsody In Blue" - George Gershwin

* Blue Danube" - Johann Strauss

* "Night on a bare mountain" - Mussorgski

* Tristram and iselda" - Wagner

4. Complete the following names of jazz and big band performers

* ... Armstrong -- Louis

* Charlie ... -- Parker

* ... Tilling -- don't know

* Dizzie ... -- Gillespie

* ... Marcellus -- don't know

5. What are the connections for each of the following:

Given the nature of last week's connections question I'm not even going to think about this

6. Which musicals did these songs appear in:

* "It ain't necessarily so" - Porgy and Bess

* "Mac the Nife" - Really?! Mack the Knife is in Threepenny Opera. No idea about "Mac the Nife" though.

* "I don't know how to love him" - Jesus Christ Superstar

* "hello young lovers" -- don't know

* "Any dream will do" - Joseph and his amazing technicolour yawm

7. Who am I: Bravo Win or Die

* I am 26 and a singer song-writer. I was born in Reading. My middle name is Alison and I could be regarded as a cross-over artist. As far as I know I'm not Irish. - don't know

* Do I need to say any more than "Old blue eyes"? - Frank Sinatra, natch

* I was born in 1911 in Missisippi and sadly joined the 27 club. I was a song writer, singer, and guitarists and have often been called "the king of the delta blues". - Robert Johnson

* I am German who died in 1685. I was a composer and a performer especially as a organist. I wrote over 300 cantatas of which 200 survive. Call me Mr. Baroque if you like! - Johann Sebastian Bach

* I should have performed at Woodstock in 1969 but got delayed at a airport, so I wrote a song about it. My most commercial track is possibly one of my worst! The title of one of my best albums was nicked by a dreadful boy-band! - Joni Mitchell

8. Name the bands / groups the following are members of:

* Babs, Joy and Teddie - Beverley sisters (Teddy, not Teddie)

* Natalie Mains; Maureen Mcguire; emily robinson. - - don't know

* Ray ladelaw; ray jackson; simon cowel; Alan hull; Rod Clemence. - guess, Lindisfarne, because I know their singer is called Ray Jackson.

* aston merrybold; Marvin Hughes; orisay Williams. - JLS -

* Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton - Cream

9. name the songs and the performer:

* "Here's fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck. for the suns to rot for the trees to drop, here is a strange and bitter crop." - Strange Fruit, Billie Holliday

* "You've got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you're sitting at the table, there'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done." - Kenny Rogers, can't remember the name of the song. Guess at "the gambler" but I'd need to google to be sure.

* "You were caught in a cross-fire of childhood and stardom, caught in a steel breeze. come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend you martyr." - Shine on you crazy diamond, Pink Floyd

* "Have you seen the old man outside the seaman's mission? Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wares. in our winter city the world cries a little pity. one more forgotten hero for a world that doesn't care" - Streets of London, whoever that was by can't remember

* "I called you so many times today so I guess its all true what your girlfriend say. you don't ever want to see me again and your brother's gonna kill me and he's 6 feet ten" - Police, can't stand losing you

10. who recorded the following live albums: - I don't know (was it one band for all five, or five bands?)

Posted By: Old Man, Mar 7, 10:20:19