Sunday, July 27, 2008

Answers (#44): Thursday, July 31, 2008

1) “The Boy From New York City”
2) John Stewart, Anita Baker, Moby, Roxy Music, Talking Heads
3) Irene Cara, “Fame”
4) “If You Wanna Get To Heaven” and “Jackie Blue”
5) Letterman - Linda Ronstadt or Little Anthony & the Imperials, John Mellancamp, Nazareth, Fleetwood Mac, Thomas Dolby
6) Mike Post
7) “Like A Surgeon” , “Fat” , “Another One Rides The Bus” , “My Bologna” , “I Love Rocky Road”
8) Alan & Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch, Willis Alan Ramsey, Daryl Hall, Burt Bacharach – Carole Bayer Sager, Peter Allen & Christopher Cross, Prince
9) Valotte
10) Karen Carpenter

4 comments:

Editor said...

on number 10, perhaps i was not specific enough and perhaps my clue was misleading. Carpenter started out as a drummer for their group, which consisted of her brother Richard and several sessions players when they toured. when i first saw them in concert in 1971, she WAS the drummer, but they weren't THAT well known. but by the time i saw them in 1973, they were internationally famous and she was totally out front performing her vocals.

you may not have recognized the Carpenters as a group but more as a duo and if so, discount the question.

thank you,
Editor

pjazzypar said...

Editor, I won't discount the question because it's right, it's just not the only answer. I almost put Karen Carpenter is parenthesis because she had started out a the drummer. But at the time they were an instrumental group. I thought you meant someone who was a drummer in a group that already had a singer. Kind of like when Teddy Pendergrass was the drummer for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and ended up as the lead singer. The same happened with Jeffrey Osborne (LTD) and of course Larry Blackman (Cameo)

pjazzypar said...

Oh Yeah Editor,

There is a nice write up on Gino Vanelli at http://thebluesblogger.com/
If provides an update of his whereabouts over the years an shows a recent video clip (without the big mound of hair).

Editor said...

thanks pjazz....Gino Vanelli...makes you wonder how people can be so big and then just disappear....