1) Quentin Cook changed his name to Norman for street cred reasons, but which now largely forgotten early 'seventies pop star - also a record producer - changed his name FROM Norman ?

2) Which Bee Gee appeared on the album Sesame Street Fever ?

3) Which British record label of the 'seventies had hits with some very inspired singles licensed from elsewhere - Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs' Sea Side Shuffle; Roy "C"'s Shotgun Wedding; Dean Parrish's Northern soul classic I'm On My Way; Carl Malcolm's Fattie Bum-Bum - although its proprietor's own (numerous) hits were universally reviled ?

4) Which disc jockey presented Radio 1's Sunday afternoon-into-evening show Solid Gold Sixty (which incorporated the top twenty) in the 'seventies ?

5) How was Barry Green better known ?

6) What unusual thing did both Buzzcocks and Magazine do in 1980, singles-wise ?

7) Who had a rare flop in the 'seventies with Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt - which unusually for the artist DID receive some radio play ?

8) Which Italian actress released a single (Anyone/There Is A Star) in 1971, with vocal backing from chart group Middle Of The Road ?

9) What connects Pink Floyd's Lucifer Sam and The Monkees' Shorty Blackwell ?

10) Which white female pop vocalist (who fronted a 1970 chart band) blacked up for her 1974 Abba-cover hit duet, to avoid any controversy a mixed-race male/female act might have attracted ?

1. Hurricane Smith
3. UK
4. Tom Browne
5. Barry Blue
7. Judge Dread
8. Gina Lollobrigida
9. Are they both about cats?
10. Whaaaaaaat?!!!

just answer the questions

2. Robin Gibb

correct so far you crazy 70s pop fans

1. Hurricane Smith
2. Robin Gibb
3. UK
4. Tom browne
5. Barry Blue
6.
7. Judge Dread
8.
9. cats
10. ............it really happened!

6. Release four singles each in one year?

yes , they released a series of 3 singles ... at monthly intervals i think

10. Sally Carr?

nah - it was Polly Brown of Pickettywitch. She duetted with a black geezer called Tony Jackson (not the Searchers guy!!) ... Sweet Dreams...the duo...they covered Honey Honey. Anyway - she was made up to look black, belive it or not. I think it was Top of the Pops...although I'm a bit hazy on that. Its a well known pop fact...well, not well known...but known about....if you google it you'll get the story here n there. Its weird one, the past is indeed a different country.

thats the trouble w/ easy pop quizzes - they don't last long.

God, I'd never heard of that - they should've cut to a clip of that when Smashie and Nicey blacked up...

That Polly Brown story is weird... But people forget (or don't know) what it was like at the time. The Black & White Minstrels were very popular around then, as was Love Thy Neighbour. If you said the word 'sambo' on British television in 1973/4, you got a big laugh. 10cc and other bands put on stupid voices and sang songs about cannibalism. Mott The Hoople used the term "spade" in All The Way From Memphis. It probably didn't occur to any of these people (including Vince Powell) that they could have chosen their phraseology a little more wisely...

But blacking up on TOTP. That is a bit sick. :unsure:

yeh , it was different times. If u tell the young folks they won't believ u but this shit really happened alright. The Black & White Minstrel Show...god, I used to watch it in complete amazement...and i was only 12 or something. Even i knew something was wrong. Sometimes telly was so shit that there was ONLY the B&W minstrel show on... it was the best thing on... the other things being stuff like Fanny Craddock or the potters wheel or something. Crazy crazy nights as KISS pointed out.
Its true the telly was full of references to darkies and nig nogs...fuckn hell. Most of it was just ignornace tho - not actually malign as such i don't think. Is it a better society now? Superficially it may be... there's integration at a much deeper level...although we now have new people to take the piss out of ie eastern europeans.

There's a really embarrassing bit in Fawlty Towers where Sybil is in hospital for an in-growing toenail, and Basil meets the doctor who is going to operate on her. Basil does a massive double-take because the doctor is black.

But you know damn well that John Cleese wasn't trying to flag up Basil's innate bigotry, or anything like that. Cleese was just trying to get a big laugh out of using a black actor in a sitcom. And sure enough -- the studio audience laugh their heads off.

There seems to be only one answer left. So there it is:

8. Sophia Loren

aye - spot on. I actually have that single as well. Its quite a good one.
Well done everybody.

Keep it coming Bradx! Great fun! :D