Flashback: Juice Newton

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia.

1. On which album does Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" originally appear?

2. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" was penned for which 1969 film?

3. Who released "Baby Don't Forget My Number"?

4. What is Juice Newton's real first name?

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: "Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins, Silently closing her bedroom door."

Answers

1. Their "Paranoid" album, released in 1970. It was their live version on the "Reunion" album in 2000 that netted them a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

2. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The song, which a few others had declined to record and which was generally disliked by those in the film, went on to become a massive hit.

3. Milli Vanilli, in 1988. It was discovered the following year that the duo was lip-syncing every song when the behind-the-scenes recording got stuck and started repeating a line during a live performance.

4. She was born Judith but in 1978 legally changed it to Juice.

5. "She's Leaving Home," by the Beatles, in 1967. The story, about a girl leaving home and not telling her parents, was taken loosely from a news story about a teen girl in London.

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