Social Distancing and staying at home are important for our health and safety, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take a little trip with our imaginations. We’ve listed lines from popular songs that contain the name of a city, state, famous landmark or country in the lyrics. Identify the title of the song; the artist who performed it and the hometown of the artist/lead singer.
Answers to the quiz are located in Next Month In This Awful Awesome Life - May 2020, https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2020/4/6/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-may-2020
Song Title:
“Travelin’ Man” “Smoke on the Water”
“The Boxer” “Johnny B. Goode”
“Take me to Texas” “Hungry Heart”
“Twistin’ USA” “Get Back”
“House of the Rising Sun” “Jersey Girl”
“No Woman No Cry” “Love Shack”
“Riot on Broadstreet” “Free Man in Paris”
“Midnight Train to Georgia”
Artist/Group:
George Strait The Beatles
Bob Marley and the Wailers B52’s
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Tom Waits
Chubby Checker The Animals
Joni Mitchell Deep Purple
Bruce Springsteen Ricky Nelson
Simon & Garfunkel Chuck Berry
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Birthplace:
St. Louis, Missouri
Lead singer Ian Gillian is from Chiswick, London, England
Spring Gully, South Carolina
The lead singer of this group was born in Atlanta, Georgia
Long Branch, New Jersey
Lead singer Eric Burden was born in Walker, New Castle upon Tyne, England
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Lead singer Dicky Barrett was born in Providence, Rhode Island
Teaneck, New Jersey
Paul McCartney who sang lead vocals on this song was born in Liverpool, England
The members of this award winning duo were born in Newark, New Jersey and New York City, New York
Lead vocals were shared by Fred Schneider (Newark, New Jersey), Kate Pierson (Weehawken, New Jersey) and Cindy Wilson (Athens, Georgia)
Poteet, Texas
The lead singer of this group was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, British Jamaica.
Pomona, California
Line from song (fill the blanks with the song title/artist or group/ birthplace):
1. There is a house in New Orleans they call…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
2. Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack; I went out for a ride and I never went back…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
3. JoJo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
4. L.A. proved too much for the man…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
5. I’m headin’ down the Atlanta highway. Lookin’ for the love getaway…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
6. ‘Cause – ‘cause – ‘cause I remember when we used to sit in a government yard in Trenchtown…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
7. We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
8. Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans way back up in the woods among the evergreens…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
9. 'Cause tonight I'm gonna take that ride, Across the river to the jersey side…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
10. Then I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone going home where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
11. The closest thing I've ever seen to Heaven's the Gulf of Mexico I'm a child of the Alamo and the Yellow Rose…./ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
12. If I had my way, I’d just walk out those doors and wander down the Champs Elysees…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
13. My father once told this to me Boston’s gritty history another ruthless battle in a useless holy war…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
14. I remember the night when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you, oh so tight…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________
15. They’re wailing in Warwood, in Pittsburgh and St. Lou…/ ___________________/______________________/_________________________