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Can you remember if this was a No. 1 hit song in 1960, 1970 or 1980?
Try not to cry "Tears of a Clown."
If a song makes it to No. 1 on the charts, it's pretty much an instant classic. Okay, maybe not "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It."
But the others! Especially those from 1960, 1970 and 1980! Now those are timeless jams.
All of the following songs topped the Billboard pop charts. Some stayed at No. 1 for weeks. Can you sort them into the correct decades? Good luck!
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Queen "Crazy LittleThing Called Love"
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Percy Faith "Theme from A Summer Place"
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Christopher Cross "Sailing"
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B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
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Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "The Tears of a Clown"
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The Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown"
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Brenda Lee "I Want to Be Wanted"
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Captain & Tennille "Do That to Me One More Time"
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Billy Joel "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
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The Guess Who "American Woman"
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Johnny Preston "Running Bear"
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Kenny Rogers "Lady"
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Diana Ross "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
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The Carpenters "(They Long to Be) Close to You"
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Ray Charles "Georgia on My Mind"
Can you remember if this was a No. 1 hit song in 1960, 1970 or 1980?
Your Result...
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Willie Nelson - Horseshoe
$19.95
Elvis - The Stare
$19.95
Sun Record Co. - Logo
$19.95
Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
$19.95
Yes - Yessongs
$21.95
Elvis - Long Live the King
$19.95
Elvis - Mugshot
$19.95
Yes - Logo
$21.95
CBGB - Logo (Gray)
$19.95
Jimi Hendrix - Kiss the Sky
$19.95
Yes - Logo
$21.95
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
$19.95
Elvis - TCB
$19.95
Tom Petty - Heart and Banner
$19.95
Tom Petty - Circle
$19.95
Willie Nelson - Horseshoe
$19.95
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67 Comments
12/15. Not to bad I guess
14/15 🎸🎼🎹🎤
14/15. Blew it on one of my favorites, "Tears of a Clown."
Well, that was easy.
14/15 - I remember hearing "Theme from a Summer Place" in the 70s on "adult contemporary" radio, I didn't realize it was from 1960. Being born in 1963, I guess I didn't pay attention to it until I was 7.
Way too easy!!!
You got 15 out of 15
No matter when they came out, they're still rock and roll to us.
No matter when they came out, they're still rock and roll to us.
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Stubbed my toe on a couple of songs. 13/15.
All but one. Some were strictly guesses.
12/15
12/15. Really, Running Bear?!? Never heard of it until this quiz. The usual mix of rare obscurity curve balls thrown in this one.
Burton Cummings sang American Woman with the Guess Who. In the '90s he had an oldies show on a Winnipeg radio station where he sometimes played Running Bear.
Wow got my 80's mixed up with my 70's 10 out of 15 sad. Horrible with dates.
"Horrible with dates."
How are you with raisins?
How are you with raisins?
A Clean Sweep!! Christopher Cross's song "Sailing" was on the radio in August 1980. "Kenny Rogers' "Lady" was aired on the radio in December 1980. The latter song was aired on "The Lawrence Welk Show" during the 1980-1981 Television Season …. on an instrumental basis only. Styx and Little River Band had 2 earlier versions of the song: 1. March 1975 and 2. April 1979. Food For Thought!!
Styx, Little River Band. and Kenny Rogers each performed different songs that happened to have the title of Lady. Each performer's song had different lyrics and melody.
You got 15 out of 15You got 15 out of 15
No matter when they came out, they're still rock and roll to us.
No matter when they came out, they're still rock and roll to us.
No matter when they came out, they're still rock and roll to us.
No matter when they came out, they're still rock and roll to us.
#1: "They released their first live album, Live Killers, in 1979; it went platinum twice in the US.[82] Queen also released the very successful single "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", (Wikipedia) That makes it 1970s, not 1980s.
#5: "The Tears of a Clown" ... originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen." (Wikipedia) So again MeTV got it wrong.
#8: "The song was included on the duo's 1979 studio album, Make Your Move,..." (Wikipedia) Boy the MeTV dorks are going ful force on this one.
#5: "The Tears of a Clown" ... originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen." (Wikipedia) So again MeTV got it wrong.
#8: "The song was included on the duo's 1979 studio album, Make Your Move,..." (Wikipedia) Boy the MeTV dorks are going ful force on this one.
You're mean.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love was on The Game album which came out in 1980. The song I've got a beef with is Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head which was in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
The quiz asks when the song hit #1, not when it was released. They got them all right, YOU are the one who is wrong.
Apparently Emily is leaving nasty notes all over these pages.
She was recently diagnosed with a Balance Imbalance.
Let's keep her in our thoughts and posts.
Let's keep her in our thoughts and posts.
13 out of 15
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13/15; not too bad of a score for me. I missed a couple of 1960's tunes because I was born that decade and too young to remember a lot of those songs.
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I WANNA SEE IT!!!!