A Test for Old Kids

[Eunuchorn (imported)]

I could not think of louis armstrong, so I got 14 outta 15.

I did not see everything, but I at least knew what they were.

Am I an old fart yet?

[transward (imported)]

Yes, I got that one wrong also, I incorrectly named ANOTHER of Red Skelton's characters (Clem Cadiddlehopper) but NOT the one the question was asking for.

I made the same mistake for my only miss.

On the Nesltles question I wasn't sure if it was hot or candy, but I put the right answer in. And they misspelled the last answer.

Transward

[Dave (imported)]

I made the same mistake for my only miss.

On the Nesltles question I wasn't sure if it was hot or candy, but I put the right answer in. And they misspelled the last answer.

Transward

I shouldn't admit this but I learned the NESTLES jingle as

N E S T L E S, stick it up your A double S - Sideways

I was a bad little kid!

[tugon (imported)]

I only missed Freddy the Freeloader and the silver bullet. That would be 1 and 1/2 answers. As far as Nestle's we would say L E S B I A N they like women better than men. Oh from my youth.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I only missed one, Route 66. I never watched that show but after reading the answer I do remember it.

River

[tugon (imported)]

I only missed one, Route 66. I never watched that show but after reading the answer I do remember it.

River

I loved that show and I was saddened to learn that I could not drive from Chicago to California on Route 66 today. There are parts of the original route but not a continuous road. When Plix and I were in So. Cal. and I saw the Route number and realized I was on Route 66 I was very excited. I guess all the Nat King Cole singing about Route 66 made me want to make the trip on RT 66.

[Eunuchorn (imported)]

One thing the author forgot is that more people than buddy holly died in that plane crash. The Big Bopper died there, too.

[speedvogel (imported)]

I missed three of them, #8, 10 and 13. But I think I deserve extra credit because I may have been INcorrect about the person who "The Day The Music Died" was written for, but my incorrect guess was another person who died on that plane.... He was famous for "La Bamba." Isn't that worth at least half a point? And there was that other guy, famous for "Bad, Bad LeRoy Brown." DAMN! That was one bad plane crash, killed a lot of good talent the day the music died.

Killed in the crash of a Cessna (180, IIRC) were Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J .P. Richardson (The Big Bopper [Chantilly Lace]). None of them had anything to do with Bad, Bad LeRoy Brown which was a Jim Croce song and a full generation later. Croce died in another small plane crash.

I am old enough so I got all the answers right without having to think. But then, I have a head cluttered with lots of useless information.

Speed

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

Killed in the crash of a Cessna (180, IIRC) were Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J .P. Richardson (The Big Bopper [Chantilly Lace]). None of them had anything to do with Bad, Bad LeRoy Brown which was a Jim Croce song and a full generation later. Croce died in another small plane crash.

I am old enough so I got all the answers right without having to think. But then, I have a head cluttered with lots of useless information.

Speed

Thankyou for the correction on Jim Croce's death.

I KNEW Jim Croce died in a plane crash, and I KNEW he was at the beginning of a promising musical career (much like Ritchie Valens who did a GREAT version of "La Bamba") and I confused the events in my mind.

So many times I had listened to "The Day The Music Died" and did not know the significance of the story in the song, later I found out the history of it and it was all that much better to me once I understood the inspiration behind the lyrics.

I can readily think of two other songs that are like that; "Starry Starry Night" also by Don MacClane, and "The Warmth Of The Sun" by the Beach Boys.

Anyone care to show off their "Old Kid" smarts and tell us what historic things inspired those two songs?

Anyone care to show off their musical smarts and offer other popular songs that commemorate certain things?

[kristoff]

Thankyou for the correction on Jim Croce's death.

I KNEW Jim Croce died in a plane crash, and I KNEW he was at the beginning of a promising musical career (much like Ritchie Valens who did a GREAT version of "La Bamba") and I confused the events in my mind.

So many times I had listened to "The Day The Music Died" and did not know the significance of the story in the song, later I found out the history of it and it was all that much better to me once I understood the inspiration behind the lyrics.

I can readily think of two other songs that are like that; "Starry Starry Night" also by Don MacClane, and "The Warmth Of The Sun" by the Beach Boys.

Anyone care to show off their "Old Kid" smarts and tell us what historic things inspired those two songs?

Anyone care to show off their musical smarts and offer other popular songs that commemorate certain things?

If I recall correctly, starry starry night was inspired by vincent Van Gogh. Never much care for the Beach Boys; couldnt answer.