Flashback: Which group released “Cold as Ice?”

Pop, rock and soul trivia.

By Mick Harper

1. Name the group that released “We Want the Airwaves.”

2. Which group released “Cold as Ice?”

3. Who was slated to record “My Girl” before it was given to the Temptations?

4. Which Gibb brother added “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” to his debut album?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “And so you see I have come to doubt all that I once held as true, I stand alone without beliefs, The only truth I know is you.”

Answers

1. The Ramones, in 1981 on their “Pleasant Dreams” album.

2. Foreigner, in 1977. The song was used as a soundtrack in a 1978 “Saturday Night Live” skit. It charted around the world, but never quite reached the top.

3. The Miracles. But songwriter Smokey Robinson recruited David Ruffin, put him in front of the Temptations, and the rest is history.

4. Andy Gibb, in 1977. It was written by his brother Barry, who penned the chart topper in 20 minutes.

5. “Kathy’s Song,” by Simon and Garfunkel. Paul Simon wrote the song to a girl he met in 1963 in England, but Kathy couldn’t handle the stardom and ended the relationship. She lives in Wales now and is in her 70s.