Flashback: White Album

By Mick Harper

Pop, Rock, and Soul Trivia

1. What are the only words on the cover of the original Beatles white album?

2. What was the only No. 1 Crystals song?

3. Name the bestselling single of all time.

4. What was the Marrakesh Express?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: "Don't come knockin' around my door, Don't wanna see your shadow no more."

Answers

1. It said simply "The Beatles" in embossed letters. Later pressings had "The Beatles" printed. The first few million copies were individually numbered.

2. "He's a Rebel," in 1962. "Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)" came in at No. 3 the following year.

3. "White Christmas," by Bing Crosby in 1942, per a recent (2020) Guinness World Records. The song has sold 50 million copies, far ahead of Elton John's 33 million copies for the double A-side "Something About the Way You Look Tonight"/"Candle in the Wind 1997."

4. As written in the Crosby, Stills and Nash song, it was the train from Casablanca to Marrakesh in Morocco. The real train is spelled Marrakech.

5. "American Woman," by the Guess Who in 1970. The song was written by Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman, but for this song, credits included other band members Garry Peterson and Jim Kale.

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