Flashback: Strange Situation

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia.

1. Name Bread's first No. 1 song.

2. Which group released "Have You Seen Her"?

3. Who topped the charts with "So Emotional"?

4. Which artist wrote and released "Fire Lake"?

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: "I find myself in a strange situation and I don't know how, What seemed to be an infatuation is so different now."

Answers

1. "Make It With You," in 1970. The song ranked as No. 13 of all songs that year. The group's name was created when they were stuck in traffic behind a bread truck.

2. The Chi-Lites, in 1971. Narration begins and ends the song as the speaker tells his tale of lost love, but radio stations deleted the spoken parts when the song was played.

3. Whitney Houston, in 1987. It was Houston's sixth No. 1 song in a row, which put her in a tie with the Bee Gees and the Beatles for most consecutive No. 1 songs. The next year she broke her own record and netted No. 7 with "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?"

4. Bob Seger, in 1980.

5. "I Don't Want to Live Without You," by Foreigner in 1988 on their "Inside Information" album. As a single, the song climbed to No. 5 on the Hot 100 chart.

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