This quiz originally appeared October 2, 1998.
The year for this edition of Phil's Yearly Quiz is 1974. This was the year Nixon resigned, and Mao started the Cultural Revolution. Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and Evel Knievel failed to jump the Snake River Gorge. On a more successful note, the Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup, and Robert Redford starred in "The Great Gatsby". When we weren't "streaking", we read "Watership Down" or watched "Chico and the Man". What were we thinking? Oh well, this is what we were listening to... (24 Hot 100 hits, 1 album track)
1. And would you cry if I told you that I lied?
2. Come out of the garden, baby, you'll catch your death in the fog.
3. I'm gonna give you more than you ever thought possible.
4. As my life goes on, I believe somehow, something's changed.
5. I've got them steadily depressing, lowdown, mind-messing.
6. She's movin', she's groovin', dancing until the music stops now.
7. I'm bad enough to make an elephant fly, I'm gonna hook ya on a natural high.
8. Hey, hey, hey, whatcha got to say?
9. It's your money or your life, it's alright, it's alright.
10. Was your father as bold as the Sergeant Major?
11. Oh woman, take me in your arms.
12. Stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song.
13. Como una guitarra en la noche.
14. Send your camel to bed.
15. You're a real fine lady, but your walk's a little shady.
16. Let us pray that tomorrow there'll be a better day.
17. The headlines read that a boy's disappeared and everyone thinks he died.
18. Gotta turn it up louder, so my DJ told me.
19. What I've got will knock your pride aside.
20. Now melodrama never makes me weep anymore.
21. Will sometimes make a rich man weak and knock him off his feet.
22. That ain't what it takes to love me like I wanna be loved by you.
23. Is this my beginning or is this the end?
24. Your love is like a chunk of gold, hard to get and hard to hold.
25. 'Cause I'll be standing on the side when you check it out.
Bonus questions:
B1. The singers of two of the above lyrics collaborated to co-write a song that would become a #1 hit in 1975. Which two artists and which song? (1 point)
B2. One of the solo artists on this quiz wrote two of the above songs, one performed by himself/herself, the other by another artist. Which artist and which two songs? (2 points)
B3. A popular song-writing team of the 1970's also wrote two of the above songs. Name the two songwriters, the city they're associated with and the two songs on this quiz that they wrote. (3 points)
B4. In the complete lyrics for the songs on this quiz, 3 of the artists on this quiz are mentioned by name. Which three artists and which songs include the references? (4 points)
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