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1960s Music Packet by Victor Pavao 1. During a lull in her career, this musician sang backing vocals on Elton John’s song “Ballad of a Well-Known Gun.” This musician’s highest-charting single was reworked from Pino Donaggio’s song “Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)” (“yo kay non vivo senza tay”) by her collaborator Vicki Wickham. This musician’s long-time partner Norma Tanega wrote “No Stranger Am I” for her, which appears on her album titled [her] ... Definitely . This musician recorded the first vocal version of Burt Bacharach’s song (*) “The Look of Love.” While recording for Atlantic in the US, this musician covered a Wexler-Marden-Dowd song that Aretha Franklin had originally turned down. Late in her career, she was featured on the Pet Shop Boys song “What Have I Done to Deserve This?.” This artist’s iconic blonde beehive hairstyle appears on the cover of an album titled [her] in Memphis . For 10 points, name this British singer of “Son of a Preacher Man.” ANSWER: Dusty Springfield [accept Mary (Isobel Catherine Bernadette) O’Brien ] 2. This song’s riff was inspired by the Chicano rock song “El Loco Cha Cha Cha,” and its Caribbean English-inflected lyrics were inspired by Nat King Cole’s “Havana Moon.” After being featured on a “worst records” radio program, this song sold 21,000 copies in Boston. While recording a cover of this song, Lynn Easton shouted “Fuck!” after accidentally hitting his drum sticks together. After undergoing a lineup change, the band that recorded the most successful version of this song followed it up with “The (*) Jolly Green Giant.” This song’s riff uses a V (“five”) minor chord, unlike “Wild Thing.” After a successful garage rock cover, this Richard Berry song was the subject of a two-year FBI investigation. This song’s narrator waits to board a ship so he can see a “Fine little girl [that] waits for me.” For 10 points, name this song popularized by the Kingsmen. ANSWER: “ Louie Louie ” 3. A 13-minute song from this album features a harmonica blown through a Kustom Electronics “bag” device, possibly its first appearance in recorded music. This album’s title track states “You’ve been sitting much too long / There’s a permanent crease in your right and wrong.” Cynthia Robinson and background vocalists Little Sister are prominently featured on a song from this album that closed the band’s Summer of Soul set; that song is centered on repeated shouts of “higher!”. A bizarre talk box solo is featured on a track addressed to (*) “Whitey” on this album. Slap bass was introduced to the public on the single “Thank You,” which was released just after this album. A number-one single from this album pleads “We got to live together!” after stating “Sometimes I’m right and I can be wrong.” “I Want to Take You Higher” and “Everyday People” appear on, for 10 points, which 1968 album by Sly and the Family Stone? ANSWER: Stand ! 4. A man sometimes called the first hippie, Eden Ahbez, recorded an album in which he reads beat poetry over this genre. In the 2000s, Capitol Records released an 18-volume compilation titled “Ultra-” this genre. Artists in this genre were the first to utilize stereophonic recording, which enhanced the sound effects made by Augie Colón. The song “Mini Skirt” was recorded by the Mexican “king” of this genre, Esquivel. A best-selling cover of the Haitian folk song “Choucoune” was recorded in this genre by Arthur Lyman under the name “Yellow Bird.” A 1957 album by (*) Martin Denny is credited with popularizing marimba in this genre, whose origin is traced to Ritual of the Savage by Les Baxter and “Virgin of the Sun God” by Yma (“imma”) Sumac. This broad genre was marketed to former servicemen who had served in the Pacific. For 10 points, name this easy listening genre that idealized foreign lands and the tropics. ANSWER: exotica [accept lounge ; accept bachelor pad music; accept space age pop; accept cocktail music; prompt on “beautiful music”; prompt on “easy listening”] (lounge and exotica are technically separate genres but there’s enough overlap for them to be in the same answerline.)

5. While writing songs for this album, its artist obsessively listened to Ray Charles’s album The Genius Sings the Blues from his residence in Hydra, Greece. A song from this album states “Several girls embraced me, then / I was embraced by men” after stating “I ate and ate and ate / No, I did not miss a plate.” Another song from this album describes a gambler who “didn’t leave you very much, not even laughter” that was “just some Joseph looking for a manger.” Another song from this album was inspired by the artist’s friend who had the surname Verdal. The period of productivity that produced this album also produced the novel Beautiful Losers . This album contains “The (*) Stranger Song,” “Sisters of Mercy,” and a song about a woman who brings “tea and oranges that come all the way from China.” For 10 points, name this 1967 debut album that contains “So Long, Marianne” and “Suzanne,” by a Canadian singer-songwriter. ANSWER: Songs of Leonard Cohen 6. Rolf Harris’s wobble board instrument is featured in a long solo section in a song narrated by this character’s son. This character laments the “Soft, white dreams with sugar coated outside” of his “young and innocent days.” This character buys a hat “like Anthony Eden’s” while his wife buys one “like Princess Marina” to distract from their family’s poverty. This character’s son Derek sings of a place with “no class distinction [...] no drug addiction” on the song (*) “Australia.” This working-class character praises the “Croquet lawns, village greens” of a bygone era when Victoria was “[his] queen.” For 10 points, name this title character of an album titled [him] Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire , released in 1969 by the Kinks. ANSWER: Arthur Morgan 7. One track on an album that begins with this title word has a 9-bar B section in 3/4 time that is played over the three pedal points of F, B-flat, and D-flat. In reviewing an album that begins with this title word, critics like Lawrence Kart and Keith Waters drew connections between songs like “Freedom Jazz Dance” and the avant-garde, despite the artist’s dismissal of Ornette Coleman. This is the first title word of the album that contains the Wayne Shorter composition “Paraphernalia,” and the metrically ambiguous “Black Comedy,” and was released the same year as the artist’s (*) Filles de Kilimanjaro . This is the first title word of a 1967 album that contains “Dolores” and a metrically modular cover of “Footprints.” Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter were part of the Second Great Quintet that recorded albums titled [this word] in the Sky and [this word] Smiles . For 10 points, give the first name of the trumpeter who recorded Kind of Blue . ANSWER: Miles [accept Miles Smiles and Miles in the Sky ] (the opening line refers to “Paraphernalia”) 8. This song’s success inspired an odd remake of Waltzin’ Matilda by Jimmy Soul, and a Dovells song that combined it with their hit “Bristol Stomp” and “Work with Me, Annie.” Dick Clark orchestrated this song’s biggest success by ordering Cameo-Parkway Records to re-record a complete soundalike version of the original. The original version of this song was the B-side to the ballad “Teardrops on Your Letter” by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, who had adapted it from a Sensational Nightingales song. The impressionist who recorded the most successful version of this song followed it up with (*) “Pony Time,” “Limbo Rock,” and a song titled “Lets [do this song’s title action] Again.” This song began a second chart run after the success of a Joey Dee and the Starliters song titled for “Peppermint.” “Take me by my little hand / And go like this” is an instruction from, for 10 points, which biggest hit by Chubby Checker? ANSWER: “The Twist ”