Intros Quiz – 1966 edition
Here we begin another new five-yearly cycle of intros quizzes, starting with 45 years ago: 1966. Next month we”ll skip to 1971, then 1976 and so on.
As always, twenty intros to hit songs from that year of 5-7 seconds in length. All were single releases and/or hits that year. I will not enter into a debate whether #5 is in fact U2’s 1988 hit Angel Of Harlem. I presume the artists of #5 travelled into the future to steal U2’s riff, then beamed thenselves back to 1966 and made hay off The Edge’s inventive genius. Shameful though it is, it does not make #5 a U2 song.
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OMG, I love these so much! You’d think I would know most of these, but so far, I’ve only got 10.
I meant to thank you for the idea that I blatantly stole for my retirement party last year. I had all my guests try to guess songs from 1979, when I started my job. They had as much fun guessing as I did trying to trick them! It was a great party game.
1. Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer In The City
2. The Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
3. Matt Monro – Born Free
4. Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High
5. Manfred Mann – Pretty Flamingo
6. Tom Jones – Green, Green Grass Of Home
7. Los Bravos – Black Is Black
8. The Monkees – Last Train To Clarksville
9. Ramsey Lewis Trio – Wade In The Water
10. The Seekers – Georgy Girl
11. Cat Stevens – Matthew And Son
12. Herman’s Hermits – No Milk Today
13. Dusty Springfield – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
14. Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
15. Nancy Sinatra & Dean Martin – Things
16. Sergio Mendes – Mais Que Nada
17. Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
18. Sandie Shaw – Puppet On A String
19. Simon & Garfunkel – A Hazy Shade of Winter
20. James Brown – It’s A Man’s Man’s World
sorry to nitpick and be a pedant but ‘Nancy Sinatra & Dean Martin – Things’ wasn’t released until 1968 on “Movin with Nancy”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27_With_Nancy
if i’m wrong i apologise.
Ah yes, you’re right. Thanks for flagging that, Paul.
#15 is actually Bobby Darin’s version of “Things” from Atco 6229, which charted in 1962.
No, it most definitely is the Nancy & Dean one.