Obscure Music Trivia Thread

No prob, just funnin' ya.

Neither of those guesses is correct. You'll have to think WAY outside the box for this one (but not too much for the bonus answer).

 

They don’t call this the obscure music trivia thread for nothing!

Rereading your question, da man, I would guess the early 1964 song is “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

 

The first song to bump the Kingsmen is probably something by Alvin and the Chipmunks or some such nonsense.

 

Very close timewise. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" first hit the U.S. charts the very next week after "Louie Louie"'s second No. 2 run began -- Jan. 18, 1964, debuting at No. 45. The next week it reached No. 3, right behind "Louie Louie", and the next week, on Feb. 1, 1964, it became the Beatles' first American No. 1, supplanting the song that stopped the Kingsmen. A week later the lads were on a plane for New York and history.

 

And no, not the Chipmunks.

 

I think the second song (1964) was "Hello, Dolly" by Louie Armstrong?

 

What was Elton John's highest-charting single of the 80s in the U.S.?

 

Solo or with "friends"?

 

Solo

 

“That’s What Friends Are For” was my first guess.

Solo, I’ll go with “Sad Songs Say So Much”

 

No....different album

 

OK, here's the answer to the"Louie Louie" question.

On Dec. 14, 1963, "Louie Louie" reached No. 2 and stayed there for two weeks bevcause it couldn't get past...

"Dominique" by The Singing Nun. Yes, really.

BONUS: The next week "Louie Louie" dropped to third as it was passed by Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again". When "Dominique" fell back in the Jan. 4 Hot 100, Vinton took the top spot and "Louie Louie" was stuck at second again for the next four weeks. And then Beatlemania hit.