Flashback: ABBA

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia.

1. Which group released "If You Leave Me Now"?

2. Name the ABBA song that was chosen as the "Best Studio Recording of 1975."

3. Which duo released "Do That to Me One More Time"?

4. Name the singer who released "Slave to the Rhythm."

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: "I thumbed my way from LA back to Knoxville, I found out those bright lights ain't where I belong."

Answers

1. Chicago, in 1976. The song topped the charts in both the U.S. and the U.K., as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia.

2. "Fernando." The song hit No. 1 in over a dozen countries, but not, astonishingly enough, on the Hot 100 chart in the U.S. It's been used in several films and TV shows.

3. Captain & Tennille (Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille), in 1979. The song was the second No. 1 hit for the husband and wife duo.

4. Grace Jones, in 1985. It was taken from her album of the same name.

5. "Smokey Mountain Rain," by Ronnie Milsap, in 1980. The song, telling of a man's trip home to find the woman he left behind, became Tennessee's eighth state song in 2010 by order of the state's General Assembly.

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