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1. What St. Louis actor has a vocal credit in what is often called the best music video of all time? (It was certainly regarded as a landmark video.)

2. What famous athlete was B.B. King’s uncle?

3. Who wrote the lyrics to the American Bandstand theme?

4. What was the only song recorded by two different groups on the soundtrack of the movie “Saturday Night Fever”?

5. Hee Haw’s Grandpa Jones (“What for dinner, Grandpa?”) is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. What was his primary instrument?

6. What jazz musician, one of the originators of Bebop, had the nickname “Bird”?

7. What is the one-word title for the genre (or sub-genre) of music is that is also, but less frequently, called the “Seattle Sound”? This music is characterized by fuzz, distortion, heavy drumming, and strong riffs.

8. In 1949, BB King named his guitar(s) Lucille. Eight years later a rocker had a big hit with a song titled “Lucille.“ Who was that early rocker that hit #1 of the R&B charts with “Lucille”?

9. Who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos?

10. What instrument is used when an orchestra tunes to “Concert A” ? You will hear this instrument first, before all the others hit that note.
 
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Johann Sebastian Bach (competition is healty...Mozart56)
 
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7 is grunge.

8, I believe, is Little Richard.
 
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10. Violin

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#10" The "Oboe" "Hautbois" in French. Will tune all the other instruments when lauching an "A" note at the begining of a Concert.
 
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#3 : Barry Manilow (in 1975).
 
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#6 : Charlie "yardbird" Parker
 
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#5 The banjo?
 
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#4: "More Than a Woman" ?
 
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#2 Boxer Sonny Liston was King's uncle.
 
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#1) Vincent Price was perfectly cast for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video.
 
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Elvis has left the building. Good job, all.
 
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I guess technically if you counted actor as "One who acts" and did not infer gender, then Ola Ray, who played the girlfriend and spoke in the video, would count as well, as she is a St. Lousy herself.
 
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Yes, she would, and I made a mistake. I should have qualified the actor as a St. Louis legend.
 
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