Dear Readers, what a splendid turn out for this week’s quiz, I shall have to do musical ones more often. If you remember I was giving one mark for the correct plant, with another mark for the song, and yet another for an artist who had actually sung the song. So, Liz, Claire, Jacqueline Jacques, Mike, FEARN, Anne and Fran and Bobby Freelove all got the correct plants. Claire, Mike and Fran and Bobby all also got the song title and named people who’d actually sung the songs, so they all win this week with 30 out of 30. I docked half a point from FEARN (giving 29.5 out of because although Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein) did write Edelweiss, I couldn’t find a recording of him actually singing it, but FEARN, if you can I will reinstate your half point. Anne got 29 out of 30 because I couldn’t find a recording of The Temptations singing ‘Build Me Up Buttercup’, but if you can again I will reinstate your mark! Thanks to all of you for having a bash.
The answers are below, with a link to the song. I have checked out the artists that each of you mentioned and have given you an extra mark where I could find a cover version by the person.
Lyrics
- F. Daisy. ‘Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do (A Bicycle Made For Two)
The version below is by Dinah Shore, but it’s a traditional folk song, so I’m sure there are lots of other versions about.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=N_7aC7Csck8&list=RDAMVMN_7aC7Csck8
2. H. Rose. ‘I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
Version by Lynn Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7cqwqcolqk
3. I. Build Me Up Buttercup
Original version by The Foundations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvluBVhfGcw
4.J. Edelweiss
Originally from The Sound of Music, sung by Bill Lee and Charmian Carr, this was the last song written by Rodgers and Hammerstein together There are also versions out there by Julie Andrews, André Rieu and of course Vince Hill, who got to number three in the charts (remember them?) in 1967.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bL2BCiFkTk
5.D – Tulip – ‘Tip Toe Through the Tulips’. The inimitable Tiny Tim. Good lord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TtUjZVTJQ
6. B Lilac – ‘Lilac Wine’ I’m eschewing the traditional rather overheated Elkie Brooks version for this one by Nina Simone, which actually gives me goosebumps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT38CIgRse4
7.E. Poison Ivy – ‘Poison Ivy’. Here’s the original by The Coasters. If this doesn’t have your toe tapping I give up. The Rolling Stones also did a pretty fine version, but for me The Coasters are just tighter. See what you think.
Coasters Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfRITVdz4k
Rolling Stones Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rTWPsJh6o
8.C. Grape – ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’. This has got to be Marvin Gaye for me, though Gladys Knight and the Pips knocked up a pretty good version. There’s one by Credence Clearwater Revival as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zp4NbXE0_o
9. A. Blackberry – ‘Blackberry Way’ by The Move (and also by Cheap Trick). I loved The Move when I was growing up – who can forget ‘Flowers in the Rain’ or ‘Fire Brigade’? Well, lots of people clearly. When I think about it, I think they basically had one song, but at least it was a good ‘un.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRHD4UCo74
10. G. Raspberry – ‘Raspberry Beret’ by Prince and The Revolution. Oh lord, how much I loved Prince. What with him and David Bowie being gone it’s hardly worth listening to the radio anymore (I jest, obviously).
And because I love Prince so much, here’s the link to ‘You Got The Look’, possibly Sheena Easton’s proudest moment 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCuroTbqBI&list=PLvu8wCghVq0583O2tJ1YWQj1ZQligqnDa&index=16
Yes, I very much enjoyed this quiz – had me singing Build me up Buttercup (to myself of course) all day long! (I’ll probably start all over again now you’ve reminded me!) Congrats to everyone who entered and particularly Claire and Fran & Bobby. I think you may have been a little generous allowing me to quote my daughter as singing Daisy, Daisy, but we did have it on video somewhere… (She was so cute!)
Daisy, Daisy is apparently a traditional tune – goes back at least as far as the music halls and possibly further, so I was happy to accept anything for that one! FEARN mentioned the rather scary version sung by Hal the computer in 2001….
Yes a great quiz, we love this era of music. I had to listen to the Nina Simone version of Lilac Wine as i hadn’t heard that before and you’re not wrong, very atmospheric.
Yep I really liked the Nina Simone….
The version of Poison Ivy I was thinking of was by the Lambrettas, but I couldn’t think of their name in time – I only remembered that they were a group from the New Wave era who sang in a Cockney accent!
Fair doos. So you would have accepted IBM 704 for Q1 ?
🙂 – Daisy, Daisy is apparently a traditional folksong, so whatever you fancied would have been fine by me (and I’d forgotten IBM 704)