Flashback: Police Siren

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia.

1. Which song had to be changed before it could get radio airplay because it started with the sounds of a siren?

2. Name the artist who wrote and released "For the Love of Him."

3. Who had an international hit with "Up in a Puff of Smoke"?

4. Who used the stage name Lobo?

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: "I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king."

Answers

1. "Indiana Wants Me," by R. Dean Taylor in 1970. The police siren at the beginning of the song caused drivers to pull off the road, thinking the siren was real.

2. Bobbi Martin, in 1969. For a real treat, search YouTube for Martin's videos, especially "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

3. Polly Brown, in 1974. While it climbed charts worldwide, it ranked highest (No. 3) on the Billboard Dance/Disco chart.

4. Roland Kent LaVoie, singer-songwriter of the hit "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo."

5. "That's Life," made famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966. It's been widely used, including in the Tony Hawk's Underground 2 video game in 2004. The song was first recorded, however, by Marion Montgomery in 1963.

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