CHAIN OF HITS TM
The Pop Music Trivia Puzzle
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Greetings. I hope all you colonists had a lovely Thanksgiving. And I hope all you rabid U.S. consumers had a successful, injury-free Black Friday. (Everyone else everywhere else, I hope you had a lovely late November weekend.) To reward you en masse for getting through another holiday kickoff weekend, here’s CHAIN OF HITS #59 (category: “Chart Catch-All”) featuring seven eclectic artists and corresponding titles. Plus a tricky Bonus Beatles Brain-Buster question that DOESN’T have erroneous information in it (reference last week’s question for some erroneousnessnessness). Write to you in December…
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Answer to last week’s Bonus Beatles Brain-Buster:
Name the only two Beatles albums that won Grammy awards in their time (i.e.: not “Hall of Fame” recognition years later), and how many total Grammys they won between them (in their time).
ANSWER: OKAY, I LIED … THERE WERE FOUR GRAMMY-WINNING BEATLES ALBUMS IN THEIR TIME (SGT. PEPPER, ABBEY ROAD, LET IT BE AND LOVE), WITH SEVEN GRAMMYS BETWEEN THEM:
- Album Of The Year: SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
- Best Contemporary Album: SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
- Best Engineered Recording (Non-Classical): SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
- Best Engineered Recording (Non-Classical): ABBEY ROAD
- Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or TV Special: LET IT BE
- Best Surround Sound Album: LOVE
- Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: LOVE
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This week’s Bonus Beatles Brain-Buster:
In the Beatles’ entire catalog of commercially-released studio recordings, which track begins with George Harrison speaking the words, “Hi, Ringo” …?
Answer on December 5th.
