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Most of the artists on your quiz were before my time but any person with a curiosity about music should know about Scott Joplin, Cole Porter, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington. Some of the roots music questions are challenging even to the musically educated forum members. Few people outside of acoustic guitar players know what the Carter lick is. I know Carter lick is, but I can't explain it to a lay person unless I have a guitar as a prop. It's like trying to explain what hammer-on or a pull-off is without using a guitar to demonstrate the techinques. Holland Dozier & Holland were Motown's top songwriting team but Norman Whitefield, Barrett Strong, Deke Richards Smokey Robinson and Motown president Barry Gordy were also prolific composers for Motown. I know that Lamont, Dozier and Holland wrote most of the Supreme's big hits but I'd have to do a fact check if you asked me to name a Lamont, Dozier, and Holland song, excluding the Supreme's biggest hits. It's a tough question even for a person with a knowledge of soul music. I'd be surprised if over 20% of MB forum members percentage know who Blind Willie McTell, Charley Patton and Fred McDowell are. Of course I'd be among the ignorant had one of your questions had been about mariachi music or gangsta rap. The title "King of the Delta Blues Men" is a dubious one because Robert Johnson, Son House, Willie Brown and Charlie Patton have all been called the "King of the Delta Blues Singers" at one time or another. Patton was playing a full decade before Son House or Robert Johnson. However Patton's generational peer, Willie Brown was a better singer and guitar player than Patton. But Willie Brown lost his claim to "king" when he only recorded 8 songs and disappeared into obscurity forever, while Patton recorded nearly 100 songs. |
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Of course it isn't but Bieber is not only not particularly original, Eddie Holman could out-sing him on worst day. And the song is the type that made Bieber who he is--"Hey there lonely girl / don't you know this lonely boy loves you" That kind of stuff made Bieber's career and he's just a Holman retread.
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http://www.ville-ge.ch/bge/bmus/imag...9-01-haydn.jpg ...and in fact he sometimes used the Italian form of the name, Giuseppe http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nature.svg.png Haydn's name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I mean if you're going to pontificate and demonstrate to all the younger members here as to how vastly superior your musical educaion is, you might as well get your facts straight. BTW, I challenge you to try your hand at a quiz composed by some of these young members. They are about eight million times smarter than you're giving them credit for, not that it really amounts to a hill of beans what you think of them in the real world. Oh, one last thing, Urban wins. :D |
How old are you Paul?
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