If my car ever makes sounds like that, I'll have it towed
to the garage!

Well, maybe you should go listen to a Spike Jones CD and see just how melodic that music was!

Hey, I like Spike Jones. :)

The first one is the Doors, Hello I Love You. I think somewhere in there is the song that goes "Great God in heaven, you know I love you."

Is the second one Everly Brothers? And is Dave Clark Five in there? That second to last one is KILLING me. I know I know it.

Charles, I meant no disrespect to Spike or his fans. He was the Rube Goldberg of the musical world! (And I mean that in the best possible way.)

Michele, there's no Everly Brothers (I figure the second one will stump just about everybody).

The "Great God in heaven" song you're thinking of is "Vehicle" by Ides of March...and it's not in the quiz.

Ok, #6 is "One Tin Soldier." #9 is "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix. (Actually is sounds more like a Stevie Ray Vaughn track, but I don't think he was recording in the late 60s.)

Bo Bice, one of the American Idols, sang "Vehicle" tonight.

He rocks! He's so cool!

Just for the record I had fake html tags around "He's so cool!" Something like [12-year-old girl mode], to indicate that I meant that facetiously and...

...oh never mind. Nobody cares! :p

Denise, I really think you think Bo rocks and is cool. Denise + Bo.

Actually, your HTML came through fine in the email notice I got; it's just that the browser interprets the carets (that is what they're called, isn't it?) literally, and displays only the text enclosed by them. If you want the < and > symbols to appear, you have to use the HTML character entity for them: & lt; for < and & gt; for > (remove the blank space after the &).

Anyway...where were we? Oh yeah, I need the artist as well as the song title...and Jimi is not in the quiz!

Not much of one for names of songs.....but I can give some clues on the artists.

Doors
Boyce and Hart
Buckinghams
Hollies
War

Working on the others....

Wallace, four out of five ain't bad...especially considering you've nailed the one I figured would elude most folks.

But, I'm not giving much away, am I? ;-)

OK...War isn't among the samples.

Well, I wasn't in junior high until the late '80s, but I did recognize "Hello, I Love You" as the first one! Probably because The Doors were still on the radio in the '80s...
#3 sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
#10 - I'm guessing James Brown. Because of the brass, and that the shout in it sounds like Eddie Murphy's parodies of James Brown. I know it's not "I Feel Good" - and that's the only James Brown song I know by name.

The ones that sound familiar are from time in the car with my step-father, who loved the "oldies" radio station.

I'm looking forward to learning what #2, #5 and #9 are - I want to hear the rest of them!

I wish my QT plugin for Firefox worked :=(

Scott, perhaps the boy will let you borrow his new iBook. I'm sure it works there!

Want me to provide a link to the mp3 so you can download it?

Brian, #1 is indeed "Hello, I Love You" by the Doors...but James Brown isn't represented. Michele's 2nd comment above is on the right track, even though she doesn't specifically refer to #10.

Brian, #1 is indeed "Hello, I Love You" by the Doors...but James Brown isn't represented. Michele's 2nd comment above is on the right track, even though she doesn't specifically refer to #10.

#2 is indeed Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart: "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight".

#3 is the Buckinghams' cover of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy".

#5 is "On a Carousel" by the Hollies.

#7 is "Sealed With a Kiss," as remade by Gary Lewis and the Playboys.

#8 is "Talk Talk" by the Music Machine.

And the Dave Clark Five hold down the #10 spot with their version of "You've Got What It Takes."

How come my QuickTime plugin works in this version of Firefox and not the one I have at home? (Same Fox: 1.03.)

Charles knocks it out of the park!

So, we're left with needing a title/artist for #s 6 and 9, and an artist for #6.

As far as why the QT plugin isn't working, my definitive answer is "beats me." Are they installed on different OSes?

Oops...I meant to say "title/artist for #s 4 and 9."

Eric, is #9 "Roadhouse Blues" by The Doors?

Jeff, while it wouldn't be out of character for me to include TWO songs by the Lizard King, you'll have to go back to the well for this one. There's only one Doors song in the group and that's in the #1 slot.

#6 - Theme to Billy Jack, or One Tin Soldier - sung by Coven?

#9 - hmm. Is is a ZZ Top? Man, I have it on the tip of my tongue...

Pattie, #6 is right song, but wrong artist. And, no ZZ Top in this crowd.

Same OS: Win98SE.

Maybe it was the order in which they were installed?

Two acts scored hits with "One Tin Soldier" from Billy Jack: the Original Caste and Coven. The two are almost indistinguishable at some points.

Point well taken about the two versions of "One Tin Soldier." This one happens to be by The Original Caste.

I still don't have a clue about your QT plugin issue.

At the risk of further embarrament, I'm going to say #9 is something by Eric Clapton. Or Cream.

I solve my Mozilla Firefox plug-in issues by using IE.

Denise, I'm not sure which is more embarrassing...your guess or the fact that you're using IE! ;-)

Just kidding, of course...about the guess, anyway. The clip does have that bluesy sound that one associates with some of Cream's stuff, but I'm not sure they ever charted in the 60s with that sound. Anyway, it's not them (or Clapton, sans Baker and Bruce).

I think I'm gonna have to provide more extended clips for #4 and #9.

Or perhaps my spelling.