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Music 2025-07-07 (Season 41)

MOVIE MUSIC

The last 2 Best Song Oscar winners whose titles were the same name as the movie they were in had this man in the leading role

Music 2024-12-18 (Season 41)

ANTHEMS

The unofficial anthem of this U.K. territory mentions kelp, penguins & "the wind from the Horn"

Music 2023-06-30 (Season 39)

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem

Music 2022-06-23 (Season 38)

CLASSIC ALBUMS

This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral

Music 2022-05-10 (Season 38)

LIVE MUSIC

These 2 events held 2 1/2 months & 2,500 miles apart in 1999 were the last of one major music happening & the first of another

Music 2022-05-03 (Season 38)

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

"Terre de nos aïeux" follows the title in the French version of this anthem

Music 2021-12-31 (Season 38)

MUSIC LEGENDS

Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk"

Music 2021-05-05 (Season 37)

CLASSIC ALBUMS

The title of this huge hit 1977 album was the idea of the bass player, who specified it should be spelled the British way

Music 2021-02-22 (Season 37)

MUSIC

Just 24 notes, this piece is nicknamed "Butterfield's Lullaby" for the U.S. Army general who arranged it

Music 2020-09-15 (Season 37)

THE MUSIC BIZ

In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had "come full circle"

Music 2020-02-24 (Season 36)

MUSIC STARS

On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate subcommittee on national penitentiaries

Music 2020-01-30 (Season 36)

ADVERTISING & MUSIC

In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a southern state in a tourism campaign

Music 2019-12-16 (Season 36)

TV THEME MUSIC

A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959

Music 2019-10-22 (Season 36)

FEMALE MUSIC SUPERSTARS

With more than 30 Top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks No. 1 among the Billboard 200's Greatest Women Artists of All Time

Music 2019-10-09 (Season 36)

HIT 1980s ALBUMS

This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.'s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album

Music 2019-09-17 (Season 36)

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

With lyrics by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, it debuted on June 24, 1880, at a celebration of St. Jean Baptiste Day

Music 2019-07-25 (Season 35)

1970s ALBUM REVIEWS

Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu"

Music 2019-06-06 (Season 35)

AMERICAN MUSIC LEGENDS

Steinbeck called him "just a voice and a guitar" but said his songs embodied "the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression"

Music 2019-05-30 (Season 35)

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

Its anthem was adopted in 1947 to replace one by Joseph Haydn that had been tainted by association with Nazis

Music 2019-04-02 (Season 35)

MUSIC LEGENDS

These 2 “monarchs” of popular culture both passed away on August 16, one in 2018, the other 41 years earlier

Music 2017-11-21 (Season 34)

CLASSIC ALBUMS

Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release

Music 2017-05-03 (Season 33)

MOVIE MUSIC

Since 1999 many Warner Bros. movies open with the studio's logo & a snippet of this song made famous in a 1942 film

Music 2017-02-08 (Season 33)

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one

Music 2016-10-27 (Season 33)

BRITISH POP MUSIC

This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing

Music 2016-03-04 (Season 32)

POP MUSIC MILESTONES

In 1972 this anthemic song became the first Billboard chart-topper by an Australian-born artist

Music 2016-01-12 (Season 32)

HYMNS

Slave trader turned minister John Newton wrote this hymn that 1st appeared in 1779 as "Faith's Review And Expectation"

Music 2015-05-25 (Season 31)

HYMNS

A Christian hymn & a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this, also the name of a 2009 Tony-nominated musical

Music 2015-03-11 (Season 31)

2014 ALBUMS

With a new release & 8 viral videos to go with it, he had the first comedy album in 50 years to top the Billboard 200

Music 2014-10-06 (Season 31)

MUSIC

John Williams said his music for this event, not a film, tried to capture "the spirit of cooperation, of heroic achievement"

Music 2014-06-18 (Season 30)

MUSIC IN AMERICA

Established by Congress in 1798, it's the oldest continuously active U.S. professional music ensemble

Music 2014-04-30 (Season 30)

ALBUM COVERS

This band used a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the cover of its eponymous debut album

Music 2014-04-16 (Season 30)

TV MUSIC

"Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James & the Shondells was heard in this drama's "Gliding Over All" episode

Music 2014-04-08 (Season 30)

MUSIC MAKERS

Salisbury Cathedral's dean said this man, via his 2013 album, "is creating a huge awareness of" an historic document

Music 2014-03-19 (Season 30)

THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

She beat out newcomers like Bieber & Gaga to top Forbes' list of the highest-paid people in music for 2013

Music 2013-09-19 (Season 30)

CLASSIC ALBUMS

This 1960s album ends with the line "I'd love to turn you on"

Music 2012-12-24 (Season 29)

1960s ROCK MUSIC

This 1967 No. 1 hit contains snippets of "In The Mood", "Greensleeves" & "She Loves You"

Music 2012-11-27 (Season 29)

BILLBOARDNO. 1 ALBUMS

The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63

Music 2012-06-20 (Season 28)

2011 MUSICMAKERS

According to Billboard, the top 2 music artists of 2011 were these single-named singers, neither born in the U.S.

Music 2012-06-14 (Season 28)

U.S. TOP-SELLING ALBUMS

The bestselling album of all time by a female is a 20 million seller by this woman who started singing at age 8 in Ontario

Music 2011-03-15 (Season 27)

SPORTS & MUSIC

In July 2010 this Rock & Roll Hall of Famer performed at the Baseball H.O.F. induction ceremonies

Music 2010-12-30 (Season 27)

MUSIC & MOVIE SUPERSTARS

These 2 are the only Best Actress Oscar winners to have No. 1 hits on the Billboard Top 40

Music 2009-12-29 (Season 26)

AMERICAN MUSIC

The brilliance of Anne Brown, a soprano, changed the title of a 1935 opera that was to be called simply this one name

Music 2009-09-29 (Season 26)

MUSIC HALLS OF FAME

2 of the 4 Country Music Hall of Fame acts who are also in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as performers

Music 2009-07-09 (Season 25)

MUSIC WORDS

Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy"

Music 2009-02-06 (Season 25)

MUSIC LEGENDS

His 2003 People magazine obituary was headlined "Fade to Black"

Music 2008-11-05 (Season 25)

POP MUSIC FIRSTS

Covering the years 1971-1975, their first greatest hits album was the first ever certified platinum

Music 2005-05-31 (Season 21)

BEATLES MUSIC

Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song

Music 2002-12-19 (Season 19)

TV & MUSIC

Scooby-Doo's name was inspired by a line in this 1966 song standard

Music 2002-10-07 (Season 19)

MOVIE MUSIC

The end credits for this 1998 film with Woody Allen feature the song "High Hopes"

Music 2001-10-17 (Season 18)

MUSIC & THE MOVIES

The soundtrack of this 1992 film is the bestselling movie soundtrack of the 1990s