Answers: Phil's Yearly Quiz #3


Class of 1979

Note: the number after the answer denotes the highest position reached on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

1. Take it now or leave it, now is all we get
Ans : Abba - Voulez-Vous - 80

2. I love you, mama, you're too bad to change
Ans : The Allman Brothers Band - Crazy Love - 29

3. What I feel in my heart for you is so easy to explain
Ans : Arpeggio - Love And Desire (Part I) - 70

4. What are we gonna do if we lose that fire?
Ans : Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out - 1

5. I'm gonna find ya, I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha
Ans : Blondie - One Way Or Another - 24

6. "I like the nightlife, baby!" she says
Ans : The Cars - Let's Go - 14

7. Happy days are here again, the time is right for making friends
Ans : Chic - Good Times - 1

8. Ba de ya - Say do you remember?
Ans : Earth, Wind & Fire - September - 8

9. Every woman made a fool out of me; my mama told me when she set me free
Ans : Peter Frampton - I Can't Stand It No More - 14

10. If you'd like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape
Ans : Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - 1

11. I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies
Ans : Billy Joel - Honesty - 21

12. I know (I know) the sun (the sun) gotta shine sometime
Ans : Michael Johnson - This Night Won't Last Forever - 19

13. It's hard to do, it's such a shame, I can't get through
Ans : The Knack - Your Number Or Your Name - track from _Get The Knack_

14. You say your love is bona fide, but that don't coincide
Ans : Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind - 12

15. Meet me behind Mars, we will hold each other while we sail for the stars
Ans : Cheryl Lynn - Star Love - 62

16. I told you that he'd get you right between the eyes
Ans : Melissa Manchester - Pretty Girls - 39

17. Don't you let nothing, nothing stand in your way
Ans : McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - 13

18. Makes me love you more each day, in your arms I wanna stay
Ans : Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must Have Sent You - 11

19. I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman
Ans : Queen - Bicycle Race - 24

20. Just take those old records off the shelf
Ans : Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Old Time Rock & Roll - 28

21. I got all my sisters with me!
Ans : Sister Sledge - We Are Family - 2

22. It's like thunder, lightning, the way you love me is frightening
Ans : Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood - 1

23. Hey mister, do you want to spend some time?
Ans : Donna Summer - Bad Girls - 1

24. Now some they do and some they don't and some you just can't tell
Ans : Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger - 15

25. You can hang out with all the boys
Ans : Village People - Y.M.C.A. - 2

Bonus questions:

B1. Two of the artists on this quiz have won the Grammy for album of the year. Which two? (2 pts.)
Ans : Bee Gees (with other artists) for Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1978) and Billy Joel for 52nd Street (1979).

B2. Two of the groups on this quiz are composed solely of siblings. Which two?(3 pts.)
Ans : Bee Gees (Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb) and Sister Sledge (Debra, Joni, Kim and Kathy Sledge).

B3. Three of the artists on this quiz appeared in the same 1978 movie. Which artists and which movie? (5 pts.)
Ans : Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Earth, Wind & Fire all appeared in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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