Good morning, and yes we’re back and this week we actually have an all new Trvia Quiz for your enjoyment! So, after three weeks, here’s your all new Trivia Question for Tuesday July first’ Brought to us by all those Groovey folks at Omnivore Recordings, your place for all the music you didn’t know, yo didn’t know!
Here’s your all new quiz for July first:
In the mid 60’s though the 1970’s Great Briton offered up one particularly talented / songwriter / producer / arranger who enjoyed a string of hits in the U.K and the U.S! His name was Gordon Mills! His ability to recognize talent kept him in the British Top 10 constantly! With three of his artists Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdink and Gilbert O’ Sullivan crossing into World Wide fame and fortune.. And tat brings us to our question: First give us the titles to at least 3 hits from each f these talented artists ? Additionally explain the origins and where these three names initially appear in Pop Culture history ? Finally, what are their real names ?
In summary here’s what we need:
1) Give us the titles to at least 3 hits from each of these 60’s stars ?
2)Explain were these names initially appear in Pop Culture History?
3) Tell us their “real names ?Meanwhile as you look everywhere and anywhere for clues, why not take a moment, click the link and browse Omnivore’s awesome catalog of the coolest music in the known world and beyond!
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Thats too tough for me, but great to have this back, Rick!
What’s new Pussycat? Green Green Grass of Home. It’s Not Unusual. Sir Thomas Jones Woodward. The other T. J. is Thomas Collins Jones the lyricist for the “Fantastics”
Spanish Eyes, Quando Quando Quando. Release Me. Arnold George Dorsey. E.H. was a German composer in the 1800’s.
Alone Again. Claire. No Matter How I Tried. Raymond Edward O’Sullivan. The other G. O is a pianist/ drummer with Rick Davies before he started Supertramp…with our friend and bass player Dougie Thomson.
Great to have you back, Rick!!!
1. Tom Jones 3 hits: It’s Not Unusual, What’s New Pussycat, Delilah Englebert: Release Me, The Last Waltz, There Goes My Everything O’Sullivan: Alone Again, Naturally, Clair, Get Down
2. Tom Jones, from the 18th century novel by Fielding; Englebert, from the German Composer; O’Sullivan, refers to Victorian playwrights Gilbert and Sullivan
3. Tom Jones was Thomas John Woodward; Englebert was Arnold George Dorsey; O’Sullivan was Raymond O’Sullivan
Thanks for the task: I didn’t know the 3 shared Gordon Mills in common, that’s an interesting trivia question. I saw Tom Jones about 10 years ago at Neil Young’s Bridge School Concert, and Tom Jones was spectacular, stealing the show.