Daily Music Trivia Question

Catman
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Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:43 am

I was thinking Carole King and Gerry Goffin also. But I have to go with:

Carole King & Neil Sedaka.

Sedaka wrote Oh! Carol, and King wrote Oh! Neil.


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Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:21 am

Catman wrote:
I was thinking Carole King and Gerry Goffin also. But I have to go with:

Carole King & Neil Sedaka.

Sedaka wrote Oh! Carol, and King wrote Oh! Neil.
Ding...ding...ding! We have a correct answer: Carole King and Neil Sedaka. Also attending Queens College in New York were Paul Simon and Gerry Goffin. Carole King married Gerry Goffin, and together they wrote the following hits:

Will you still love me tomorrow -- Shirelles
Take good care of my baby -- Bobby Vee
Some kind of wonderful -- The Drifters
Chains -- The Cookies (later covered by The Beatles)
The Loco-motion -- Little Eva
Go away little girl -- Steve Lawrence
Crying in the rain -- Everly Brothers
One fine day -- The Chiffons
Up on the roof -- The Drifters
I'm into something good -- Earl-Jean McCrea (covered by Herman's Hermits)
Don't forget about me -- Barbara Lewis
Don't bring me down -- The Animals
Pleasant Valley Sunday -- The Monkees
(You make me feel like) A natural woman -- Aretha Franklin
Wasn't born to follow -- The Byrds
Hi-dee-ho -- Blood, Sweat & Tears
You've got a friend -- James Taylor

...and without Gerry Goffin, she wrote:

I feel the earth move
It's too late
and all the other songs on the Tapestry album, which has sold over 10 million copies


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Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:57 pm

I have played with (among others):
[ul][li]Herbie Hancock[/li]
[li]Nnenna Freelon[/li]
[li]Bobby McFerrin[/li]
[li]Paquito D'Rivera[/li]
[li]Roy Hargrove[/li][/ul]
What is my name, what instrument do I play, and what is my native tongue?


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Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:57 pm

Chevy Chase, Air Instrument, and sometimes English.


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Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:29 am

Nice try, but no cigar...


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Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:52 am

I'm guessing here....

טוב אז. אם השברולט לא יכול להניף אותו אז אני פשוט אצטרך לנחש אבישי כהן. הוא נהג לנגן בפסנתר אבל עכשיו הוא מנגן באס. אני מניח שפת האם שלו היא עברית.


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Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:59 am

AndyT wrote:
I'm guessing here....

טוב אז. אם השברולט לא יכול להניף אותו אז אני פשוט אצטרך לנחש אבישי כהן. הוא נהג לנגן בפסנתר אבל עכשיו הוא מנגן באס. אני מניח שפת האם שלו היא עברית.
Andy, I understood that, but did you?


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Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:01 am

Yep. I wrote it. I had to use my translators, but I know what it says. I think my Biblical Greek is better than my Hebrew. I have a hard time getting used to reading backwards. And I knew you would be able to read it.


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Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:43 am

Well, in that case you get the virtual clapping hands.

Translating Andy's response:
OK. If Chevy can't swing it, I'll just have to guess Avishai Cohen. He used to play the piano but now he plays bass. I guess his native language is Hebrew.
Actually, the Hebrew text reads "If the Chevrolet can't brandish it". That's machine translators for you :)

More information courtesy of Wikipedia:

Avishai Cohen ((born April 20, 1970 in Kibbutz Kabri, Israel) is an Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger.

Avishai grew up in a musical family in a small town near Jerusalem, Israel. He began playing the piano at 9 years old, but changed to the bass guitar at the age of 14, inspired by legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius.[1] Later, after playing in an Army band for two years, he began studying upright bass with maestro Michael Klinghoffer. Two years later moved to New York City, and got in contact with other jazz players.

After a long period of performing in small clubs, Cohen got a phone call from the jazz pianist Chick Corea and was given a record contract. In 1996, he became a founding member of Corea's sextet Origin, and his first four albums as a leader were subsequently released under Corea's Stretch label.[2] Cohen performed in Corea's bands until as late as 2003, when he left the Chick Corea New Trio; he currently performs with his own group, the Avishai Cohen Trio (with New Jersey's Mark Guiliana on drums and Israel's Shai Maestro on the piano). His later albums have been released by this formation with extended lineup including wind instruments.

Aside from Corea, Cohen has accompanied, recorded or performed with several noted jazz figures such as Bobby McFerrin, Roy Hargrove, Herbie Hancock, Nnenna Freelon and Paquito D'Rivera. Other collaborators include Claudia Acuña (Wind from the South, 2000), Alicia Keys (studio recording) and the London and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras (concert performances).

More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avishai_Cohen


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Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:37 am

What tuning am I in for my 'Win a guitar competition'vid


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