Singers Study Guide

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Madonna 13x $592 avg J:6 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $100 1997 This "Material Girl" was paid $100 to appear in "A Certain Sacrifice", her film debut

J $500 1989 Her middle names are Louise & Veronica & her maiden name was Ciccone

DJ $1,200 2022 As Breathless Mahoney in 1990's "Dick Tracy", she left Warren Beatty breathless on-screen & off

Whitney Houston 9x 11.1% stumper $522 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $100 1989 In the People magazine poll for '88, she was voted favorite female singer for the 2nd year in a row

DJ $800 2005 In November of 2000 Bobby Brown & this singer held their first joint concert at the Aladdin in Vegas

DJ $1,600 2022 The movie "Sparkle" marked the film debut of Jordin Sparks & the final film of this superstar who played her mom

Diana Ross 9x 12.5% stumper $312 avg J:7 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1997 "Lady Sings The Blues"

J $600 2012 At a January 14, 1970 concert, she announced that Jean Terrell would be replacing her in The Supremes

FJ 2011 She's tied with Mariah Carey for most No. 1 hits by a female with 18: 12 as a member of a group & 6 as a solo act

Frank Sinatra 9x $400 avg J:4 DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $200 2001 (Hi, I'm Michael Feinstein here at the Hollywood Bowl.) In 1943 this man became the first pop singer to perform with the L.A. Philharmonic at the Bowl & he did it "His Way"

DJ $800 2004 This blue-eyed singer was set to star in the film "Carousel", but he walked out & was replaced by Gordon MacRae

FJ 1999 6 of his albums landed on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog Chart for May 30, 1998, including 3 in the Top 10

Cher 8x $600 avg J:3 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1996 When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he & this partner played themselves

DJ $1,200 2017 Would you "believe" she was born with the last name Sarkisian?

FJ 2020 This California-born woman won a Best Leading Actress Academy Award in 1988, when she had 2 Top 20 hit songs

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Patsy Cline 7x $933 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1989 Loretta Lynn's album "I Remember Patsy" was a tribute to this singer, her dear friend

J $500 1991 k.d. lang calls herself the reincarnation of this late, great country singer

DJ $1,000 1989 Willie Nelson wrote her hit song "Crazy" & was heard singing it in the movie about her, "Sweet Dreams"

Selena 6x 16.7% stumper $1,233 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 2010 Late Tejano singer: Quintanilla

J $600 2013 J.Lo's career exploded when she played this slain Tejano singer

DJ $1,200 2004 By Jennifer Lopez in 1997

Neil Diamond 6x $517 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1998 "Song Sung Blue","Forever in Blue Jeans"

DJ $600 1998 "Love on the Rocks" was one of the songs introduced by this pop singer in 1980's "The Jazz Singer"

DJ $1,600 2024 He starred in the 1980 remake of "The Jazz Singer" & also appeared as himself in "Saving Silverman"

Dolly Parton 6x 20.0% stumper $260 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1989 This voluptuous blonde said, "I may be a country bumkin, but I'm a smart country bumkin"

J $500 1996 In a 1992 film this curvaceous country singer gave James Woods some "Straight Talk"

FJ 2017 What she calls her "Love of Many Colors Album", a 2016 release by this singer is her first No. 1 country album in 25 years

Prince 6x $750 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2010 Rock royalty from Minneapolis: Nelson

J $500 1991 He wrote both the tunes & the purple prose for the 1990 film "Graffiti Bridge"

DJ $1,000 1998 "Graffiti Bridge", which he directed & starred in, was sort of a sequel to "Purple Rain"

Willie Nelson 5x $575 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 1987 As a Future Farmer of America he raised blue-ribbon hogs, but his Farm Aid raised funds for farmers

J $500 1997 "The Electric Horseman"

DJ $1,000 1996 In 1994 Julio Iglesias recorded Patsy Cline's hit "Crazy", written by this man, once his duet partner

Paul McCartney 5x $240 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1990 Under most No. 1 hits by a writer, Billboard lists this Beatle 1st with John Lennon 2nd

DJ $600 1990 in their last No. 1 hit, "The Long and Winding Road", he's the only Beatle heard singing

J $100 1988 In the duet "Ebony & Ivory", Stevie Wonder was the ebony while he was the ivory

Lionel Richie 5x $480 avg J:5

J $100 1997 This former lead singer of the Commodores wrote Kenny Rogers' 1980 hit "Lady"

J $600 DD 1989 He had a No. 1 hit with thefollowing from the film "White Nights":"Say you, say me, say it for always..."

J $1,000 2012 In 2012 this singer released an album of country duets called "Tuskegee", for his birthplace in Alabama

Elvis Presley 5x $420 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 1995 Mac Davis wrote several of this singer's hits, including "Don't Cry Daddy" & "In The Ghetto"

J $800 2020 On March 24, 1958 he got sworn in as U.S. Army Private 53310761 in Memphis

J $300 1990 He made 33 films, among them "Girl Happy", "Girls! Girls! Girls!" & "The Trouble with Girls"

Carly Simon 5x $300 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1992 In the early '60s she & her sister Lucy performed folk songs as the Simon Sisters

J $500 1990 She wrote the music & sang the themes for 2 of Mike Nichols' films, "Heartburn" & "Working Girl"

J $200 1998 "Anticipation","You're So Vain"

Bruce Springsteen 5x 20.0% stumper $320 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1997 He called his second album "The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle"

DJ $800 1999 INGEST SCREEN, BURP

DJ $200 1997 In 1991 he married his backup vocalist Patti Scialfa

Bette Midler 5x $400 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1990 She sang in "The Rose" & "Jinxed!" but not in "Outrageous Fortune"

DJ $600 1996 Before "Married... with Children", Katey Sagal was a Harlette, one of this star's backup singers

J $200 1996 She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" & an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy"

Barbra Streisand 5x 50.0% stumper $275 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $100 1994 She ripped her see-through pants on her way to the podium when she won an Oscar for "Funny Girl"

FJ 2012 She's the only artist to have No. 1 albums in 5 consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s

J $200 1989 Most of the songs she sang on her "Broadway Album" were written by Stephen Sondheim

Tony Bennett 4x 66.7% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $500 1996 This ever-hip singer played Hymie Kelly in the 1966 film "The Oscar" years before he got "Unplugged"

DJ $1,000 1986 Discovered by Bob Hope in 1949, this ballad king soon went from "Rags To Riches"

FJ 2022 In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material

Tina Turner 4x $250 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 "I, Tina"

DJ $200 2001 "What's Love Got To Do With It"(1984)

J $300 1990 She was the Acid Queen in "Tommy" & Auntie Entity in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"

Rihanna 4x 25.0% stumper $550 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2020 In 2018 this one-named singer showed off her acting chops in "Ocean's 8" as a hacker/stoner named Nine Ball

J $600 2010 Barbados-born singer & covergirl: Fenty

J $400 2012 Not yet 25, she's the highest-selling digital artist of all time, with more than 47 million units sold

Peggy Lee 4x 50.0% stumper $575 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1996 She earned a 1955 Oscar nomination for acting in "Pete Kelly's Blues" 3 years before she gave us "Fever"

J $500 1990 She acted & sang in "Pete Kelly's Blues" & provided the voices of the Siamese cats in "Lady & the Tramp"

DJ $1,000 2001 "Is That All There Is"(1969)

Michael Jackson 4x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1988 A big No. 1 hit in 1983, "Say, Say, Say" featured the duet of Paul McCartney & him

J $200 1997 He eased on down the road with his mentor Diana Ross when he played the Scarecrow in "The Wiz"

J $200 1992 He had a No. 1 hit in 1972 singing about a rat named Ben

Mariah Carey 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

DJ $400 2010 This pop diva was downright dowdy in her role as a welfare caseworker in "Precious"

FJ 2019 In the 1990s this New York native had 8 of her first 10 Billboard Top 40 hits reach No. 1

FJ 2008 Charting her 18th No. 1 single in April 2008, she now has more Billboard No. 1 pop hits than any other solo artist

Kenny Rogers 4x 50.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1992 His fourth wife, Marianne, used to be a regular on "Hee Haw"

DJ $800 2006 Hits about women named Lucille & Ruby gave this Houston-born singer money to "gamble" with

DJ $1,000 1993 Several of Dottie West's duets with him became hits, including "Everytime Two Fools Collide"

Gloria Estefan 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1991 Just nine months after breaking her back in 1990, this sound machine was well & had completed a new album

J $500 1998 Her father, Jose Fajardo, was once a bodyguard to Cuban president Fulgencio Batista

DJ $400 2001 She got to act with Meryl Streep when she played Isabel Vasquez in "Music of the Heart"

David Bowie 4x $1,150 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1990 On stage, he was Ziggy Stardust, the king of space rock, & on film, an alien in "The Man Who Fell to Earth"

DJ $2,000 2022 This rocker played Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 cult classic fantasy "Labyrinth"

J $400 1987 He not only wrote songs for Jim Henson's film "Labyrinth", but played the Goblin King

Aretha Franklin 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2009 Coming in at No. 1 on the list is this "Queen of Soul"

DJ $600 1985 In '67, this "Lady of Soul" got due "Respect"

J $200 1998 In her teens this "Queen Of Soul" toured with the New Bethel Choir as a featured singer

George Michael 4x $575 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1990 "One More Try" was this singer's third No. 1 hit from his "Faith" album

DJ $600 1999 GORGE LIME ACHE

DJ $800 2008 The 2008 "American Idol" finale featured a medley of his hits, including "Father Figure"

Sonny Bono 4x $350 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 2000 "And the Beat Goes On"

J $600 2021 A Nobel Prize nominee: Hewson

J $200 1989 He was elected mayor of Palm Springs 1 day after his ex-wife won an Oscar

Worth Knowing (84)

Smokey Robinson 3 Shakira 3 Rod Stewart 3 Reba McEntire 3 Nancy Sinatra 3 Marvin Gaye 3 Loretta Lynn 3 Lady Gaga 3 Joni Mitchell 3 Jerry Lee Lewis 3 James Brown 3 Harry Connick, Jr. 3 Eminem 3 Ella Fitzgerald 3 David Lee Roth 3 Bobby Vinton 3 Bob Dylan 3 Billy Joel 3 Roger Miller 3 Ray Charles 3 Donny Osmond 3 Courtney Love 3 Celine Dion 3 Billie Holiday 3 (Barry) Manilow 3 Wynonna 2 Vanessa Williams 2 The Kingston Trio 2 The Judds 2 the Bee Gees 2 The Beach Boys 2 Tammy Wynette 2 Sting 2 Simon & Garfunkel 2 Sammy Davis Jr. 2 Ringo Starr 2 Pitbull 2 Paul Simon 2 Otis Redding 2 Neil Sedaka 2 Mick Jagger 2 Meat Loaf 2 Marie Osmond 2 Liza Minnelli 2 Kris Kristofferson 2 Julio Iglesias 2 Judy Garland 2 Judy Collins 2 Journey 2 Johnny Cash 2 Joan Jett 2 Jim Morrison 2 Jewel 2 Janis Joplin 2 Huey Lewis 2 George Harrison 2 Gene Simmons 2 Fergie 2 Fats Domino 2 Donovan 2 Donna Summer 2 Dionne Warwick 2 Dean Martin 2 Coldplay 2 Charo 2 Brenda Lee 2 Bonnie Raitt 2 Bobby Darin 2 Anne Murray 2 Amy Grant 2 Alicia Keys 2 Al Jarreau 2 Adele 2 a drink 2 Van Halen 2 a train 2 Harry Styles 2 an R&B singer 2 Peter, Paul and Mary 2 Pete Seeger 2 Olivia Newton-John 2 Natalie Cole 2 Jon Bon Jovi 2 Jennifer Lopez 2

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