JAZZQUIZ
for
May
The Answers
Who Is It? Who?
Who Is It ? Who? is a tune written by the drummer in Tommy Christian's Orchestra in 1928 (? Art Barnett)
- click on the picture above for a video.
In the quiz this month we challenged you to work out the person's name in the title of each of the fifteen songs from which the following lines were taken. How well did you do?
Give yourself one extra point if you were able to answer the question:
Which landmark Gershwin composition is 100 years old this year?
(Answer : Rhapsody In Blue)
Your Score - Give yourself a point for each answer you got right
15 + correct: Formidable
10 - 14 correct: Remarkable
7- 9 correct: Capable
4 - 6 correct: Terrible
1 - 3 correct: Load of bull
THE ANSWERS
1. She was the roughest, toughest rail
Answer: Minnie The Moocher
2. And all at once I owned the earth and sky
Answer: Miss Jones (Have You Met Miss Jones)
3. Two left feet, oh, so neat
Answer: Georgia Brown (Sweet Georgia Brown)
4. But she's only a dream
Answer: Laura
5. The murmur of a brook at evening tides
Answer: Stella (Stella By Starlight)
6. It's so nice to have you back where you belong
Answer: Dolly (Hello, Dolly)
7. Morning time and evening time and summer time and winter time
Answer: Bess (Bess, You Is My Woman Now)
8. Old Deacon Splivin, his flock was givin' the way of livin' right
Answer: Hagar (Aunt Hagar's Blues)
9. Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
Answer: Mack The Knife
10. Come on a-long, come on a-long, let me take you by the hand
Answer: Alexander (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
11. Went to sleep countin' sheep by a blue lagoon
Answer: Bernie (Bernie's Tune)
12. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Answer: Danny (Danny Boy)
13. The heavenly blisses of his kisses
Answer: Harry (I'm Just Wild About Harry)
14. Now when its rainin', I don't miss the sun
Answer: Lorraine (Sweet Lorraine)
15. Then she ran into Alfonso Brown, and hasn't been the same since Alfonso put her down
Answer: Sadie (Sister Sadie)