Flashback: The Graduate

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia.

1. Name the group that released "Sugar Baby Love."

2. What is the song "Abraham, Martin and John" about?

3. Which singer-songwriter released "If You Could Read My Mind"?

4. Which Simon & Garfunkel song figured heavily in the film "The Graduate"?

5. Name the song that contains these lyrics: "Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men, Timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken."

Answers

1. The Rubettes, in 1974. Over the years, the members have been involved in various legal disputes over the ownership of the group's name. It wasn't resolved until 2022.

2. The song, recorded by Dion in 1968, is about the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

3. Gordon Lightfoot, in 1970. Lightfoot sued the songwriter of "The Greatest Love of All" for lifting 24 bars of the melody. He canceled the suit (because he's a nice guy), but ended up with a public apology.

4. "Mrs. Robinson," in 1967. It was originally titled "Mrs. Roosevelt."

5. "Sixteen Going on Seventeen," from "The Sound of Music." The musical (1959) and film (1965) of the same name tell the story of the von Trapp family fleeing the Nazis in Austria.

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