Country Quizzin’: Chart Trivia
May 20, 2009
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Here’s a first for ya: a Country Quizzin’ guest post. Knowledgeable reader Michael submitted these quiz questions to me a while back, and I’ve sort of just been saving them for a rainy day. As I can’t seem to shift my head out of American Idol mode this evening, I think now fits the bill quite nicely! So thanks to Michael for an excellent quiz!
As always, answers and comments revealed at 10:30 EST. It may be the Idol results show, but I’ll get ‘em done!
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1. You may know that George Strait scored his 41st Billboard #1 in 2006 with “Give It Away”, breaking Conway Twitty’s record 40 number ones. Who is in 3rd place? Is it:
A. Garth Brooks B. Merle Haggard C. Willie Nelson D. Eddy Arnold
2. This daughter of a country legend has the dubious honor of having the biggest drop from #1 in the last 25 years. Her single (don’t confuse it with a Ricky Martin hit) fell from #1 to #16 in February of 1995.
Pam Tillis
3. At 35 years and one month, this artist holds the record for the longest span between their first number one hit (1971) and their most recent (2006). It should be noted that the 2006 single was billed as a duet.
Dolly Parton
4. When this artist’s debut single peaked at number 20 in 2000, he set the record for the youngest male country artist to achieve a Top 40 hit.
Billy Gilman
5. In 1991 this act became the first country music group in history to reach number one with their debut single.
Diamond Rio
6. Martina McBride topped the charts for two weeks in March and April of 2002 with “Blessed.” It would be more than two years before a female would score a number one hit again. What debut single broke this drought in May of 2004?
“Redneck Woman” (Gretchen Wilson)
7. She may not have won the Grammy or had her version of this song used in the film for which it was written, but she did set the record for the longest run (69 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts in 1997.
LeAnn Rimes
8. What 1976 album was the first country album to be certified platinum (shipped more than one million copies)?
A. Golden Ring – George Jones and Tammy Wynette B. Wanted! The Outlaws – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter C. Pieces of the Sky — Emmylou Harris D. Red Headed Stranger — Willie Nelson
9. Toughie alert! This 1991 Ricky Van Shelton single made the biggest jump to #1 in the last 30 years.
“Keep It Between the Lines”
10. Gimme alert! This is the only artist to score a number one hit with two separately recorded versions of the same song. The original hit number one in 1974 and then, after remaking it for a film, it hit number one again in 1982. Moreover, he/she charted with a third version of this song in 1995 as a duet which peaked at #15.
Dolly Parton again
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[...] This week’s edition of Country Quizzin’ is all about country chart trivia. [...]
1. Merle
2. Rosanne Cash
3. Dolly Parton
4. Billy Gilman
5. Diamond Rio
6. Redneck Woman
7.
8. Wanted! The Outlaws
9. Keep It Between The Lines
10. Dolly Parton
1. B
2. Pam Tillis – and that would be ‘Mi Vida Loca’ (her only #1 if I remember correctly)
3. Dolly Parton
4. Billy Gilman
5. Diamond Rio – ‘Meet In The Middle’ – Sugarland had the highest debut since them when ‘Baby Girl’ went to #2 in 2004.
6. Gretchen Wilson – ‘Redneck Woman’
7. LeAnn Rimes – ‘How Do I Live’
8. B
9. I am gonna say ‘Keep It Between The Lines’? (great song btw)
10. Dolly Parton – ‘I Will Always Love You’ … and if the new version with Stephanie Block charts, the song will have charted in 4 decades, all featuring Dolly.
Oh and great questions, Michael. A little tough, but I really like knowing the chart history.
1. Willie Nelson
2. Pam Tillis (“Mi Vida Loca”)
3. Dolly Parton (2006 song was “When I Get Where I’m Going”)
4. Billy Gilman
5. Diamond Rio
6. “Redneck Woman”
7. LeAnn Rimes, “How Can I Live”
8. Red-Headed Stranger
9. “Keep It Between the Lines”
10. “I Will Always Love You”
10 of course, being sung by Dolly Parton (third version helped by Vince Gill), which would actually ANSWER 10′s question, as it asked for the artist, not song. Whoops.
1 D
2 Pam Tillis Mi VIda Loca
3 ??
4 Billiy Gilman
5 Diamond Rio
1 D
2 Pam Tillis Mi VIda Loca
3 ??
4 Billiy Gilman
5 Diamond Rio
6 Carrie Underwood
7 LeAnn Rimes, How Do I Live
8 B
9 Keep it Between the Lines is the only Ricky song I can think of
10 Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You, sung by her, her and Vince Gill and Whitney Houston
Can someone delete the above post, computer glich caused it to post before I was done
1. (b) Merle Haggard.
2. Pam Tillis, “Mi Vida Loca”
3. Dolly Parton, “Joshua” and “When I Get Where I’m Going” with Brad Paisley
4. Billy Gillman, “One Voice”
5. Diamond Rio, “Meet In the Middle”
6. “Redneck Woman,” Gretchen Wilson
7. LeAnn Rimes, “How Do I Live”
8. (b) Wanted: the Outlaws
9. “Keep It Between the Lines”
10. Dolly Parton, “I Will Always Love You”
Re #9: Bob Kingsley made it sound as though the entire universe shifted the week this happened, the same way he spoke about George Strait’s “Love Without End, Amen” in 1990 being the first since Dolly’s “Here You Come Again” to sit at #1 for five weeks.
Ooh! So glad these questions came in handy. Hope it goes over well!
1) Eddy Arnold
2) Pam Tillis – Mi Vida Loca
3) Dolly Parton
4) Billy Gilman – One Voice
5) Diamond Rio – Meet In the Middle
6) Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman
7) LeAnn Rimes – how Do i Live
8)Wanted! The Outlaws – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter
9) Keep It Between The Lines
10) Dolly Parton – I Will Always Love You
1. D. Eddy Arnold
2. Pam Tillis
3.
4. Billy Gilman?
5. Diamond Rio?
6. Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson
7. How Do I Live – Le Ann Rimes
8. B. Wanted! The Outlaws – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter
9. Can’t remember, I was never really a Ricky Van Shelton fan
10. I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton
1. Eddy Arnold
2. Pam Tillis -Mi Vida Loca
3. When I Get Where I’m Going -Dolly Parton (w/ B. Paisley)
4.
5. Brand New Man -Brooks and Dunn
6. Redneck Woman -Gretchen Wilson
7. How Do I Live -LeAnn Rimes
8. Wanted! The Outlaws
9.
10. I Will Always Love You -Dolly Parton
1- B. Merle Haggard
2- Rosanne Cash
3- Dolly Parton
4- No Clue
5- Diamond Rio
6- “Red Neck Woman” by Gretchen Wilson
7- “How Do I Live” by LeAnn Rimes
8- A. Golden Ring – George Jones and Tammy Wynette
9- Don’t know
10- “I Will Always Love You” by Dolly Parton
1) B – Merle Haggard
2) Pam Tillis
3) Dolly Parton
4) Billy Gilman
5) Diamond Rio
6) Gretchen Wilson – “Redneck Woman”
7) LeAnn Rimes – “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You”
8) B – WANTED-THE OUTLAWS
9) Rockin’ Years (w/Dolly Parton)
10) Dolly Parton
1. D
2. Pam Tillis – Mi Vida Loca
3. Dolly Parton
4. Billy Gilman
5. Diamond Rio
6. Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson
7. LeAnne Rimes – How Do I Live
8. B
9. Rockin’ Years? (does Dolly really show up in so many of these answers, or did I just miss them?)
10. Dolly Parton – I Will Always Love You
1.Eddy Arnold
2.Pam Tillis
3.Dolly
4.Billy Gillman
5.Diamond Rio
6.Gretchen Wilson
7.LeAnn Rimes with the POORER version of How Do I Live….sorry couldnt resist :)
8.Wanted!The Outlaws!”
9.hmmmm “Keep It Between the Lines”
10.Dolly again… which makes me think i got #3 wrong…but for sure on this one.
1. Merle Haggard
2. Pam Tillis
3. Dolly Parton
4. Billy Gilman
5. Diamond Rio
6. Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman
7. LeAnn Rimes – How Do I Live
8. The Outlaws
9. Pass
10. Dolly Parton – I Will always love you
Trying to get it in under the wire…
1. B. Merle
2. Pam Tillis
3. Loretta Lynn
4. Billy Gilman
5. Brooks & Dunn
6. No idea.
7. Leeann Rimes
8. Wanted! The Outlaws
9. From a Jack to a King
10. I missed the gimme.
I was never able to post! I tried around 930 am yesterday and was told that comments were closed. I had all but #4 correct, for the record.
comments are still hidden …
It should be fixed now.
Devil…….Merle Haggard should have knowm. I love chart trivia! I could make up my own :)