Pop Quiz No. 1

Since 1942, BBC Radio has carried a weekly series entitled Desert Island Discs wherein a person of note, referred to as a Castaway, is interviewed regarding his/her favorite 8 musical works that he/she would take along to a desert island.  The songs/pieces that the Castaways chose would, of course, be played on the show.  This program (or programme as the British would have it) is the source of inspiration for Greil Marcus's somewhat notorious book Stranded:  Rock and Roll for a Desert Island in which he had 20 music writers list the one album that they'd want if stranded alone on an island.

The BBC website has an archive of every single list going back to '42 and, with the more recent shows of the past several decades, has the actual radio shows available for download and/or play.

Castaways are from all walks of life -- politicians, musicians, actors, sociologists, royalty, historians, TV hosts/presenters, etc. -- and the mix is heavily British but there are folks from all over the world who are asked to contribute.

To me, it's fascinating to see what pieces of music different folks really admire.  Some, if not most of the lists can be quite surprising.  Some are downright curiositites.   So, having said that, I invite you to participate in the first Don't Get the Wrong Idea pop quiz of the NEW DGtWI era -- "Name that Castaway."

I have listed 10 people who have participated in the show and below them, I have given you their 8-piece list of music.  It's up to you to try to match the person with the list.  Give it a go.  You can post your guesses in the COMMENTS section that follows the article or you can email your response with the subject line "Desert Island" to edmarimba44@aol.com.  Prizes will be awarded to the 3 people with the most correct guesses answers.  (Winners will get their choice from the Marimba grab-bag of useless crap.) 

Good luck.

CASTAWAYS:

1. Norman Mailer, author
2. Burl Ives, musician/actor
3. Alice Cooper, musician
4. Joe Bugner, British heavyweight boxer
5. John Huston, director/actor
6. Whoopi Goldberg, comedienne/actress
7. Sir Edmund Hillary, explorer/philanthropist
8. Sirm Michael Caine, actor
9. Carole Channing, singer/actress
10. David Niven, actor

THE LISTS:

A)  Isaac Hayes/Theme from Shaft; The Walker Brothers/Where's the Girl?; Gilbert O'Sullivan/Get Down; Tom Jones/'Til; Dawn/Tie a Yellow Ribbon; The Walker Brothers/In My Room; Glen Campbell/By the Time I Get to Phoenix; The Beatles/The Long and Winding Road.

B)  Salli Terri/Shenandoah; Bessie Smith/St. Louis Blues; Ethel Waters/Summertime; John McCormack/Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair; The Beatles/Yellow Submarine; John Faulkner/My Lady Greensleeves; Maxine Sullivan/Loch Lomond; Walter Huston/September Song.

C)  Marian Anderson/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child;  Elvis Presley/Heartbreak Hotel; Peter Cook & Jonathan Miller/Civil War; Creedence Clearwater Revival/Born on the Bayou; M.P. Musorgsky/Night on the Bare Mountain; Libby Holman/Moanin' Low; Maurice Chevalier/Ma Pomme; Ethel Merman/Rose's Turn.

D)  Coldplay/Viva La Vida; Elbow/One Day Like This; Sir Edward Elgar/Enigma Variations - Nimrod; Chicane/No Ordinary Morning; Bent/Swollen; Phillis Nelson/Move Closer; Frank Sinatra/My Way; John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band/Happy Christmas (War is Over).

E)  Bill Withers/Lovely Day; Van Morrison/Jackie Wilson Said; Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn/Shamas-Ud-Doha; Judy Collins/Who Knows Where the Time Goes?;  Stevie Wonder/Superstition; Celia Cruz/Quimbara; Amy Winehouse/Me & Mr. Jones; Joan Sutherland/The Flower Duet.

F) The Yardbirds/Happenings Ten Years Time Ago; The Beach Boys/I Get Around; The Who/I'm a Boy; The Paul Butterfield Blues Band/Work Song; King Crimson/21st Century Schizoid Man; Jane's Addiction/Been Caught Stealing; Laura Nyro/Timer; Bob Dylan/Ballad of a Thin Man.

G)  Sir Edward Elgar/Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major "Land of Hope and Glory"; Gus Elen/Art a Pint o' Ale; Sonny Stitt/Nice Work if You Can Get It; Sonny Rollins/The Way You Look Tonight; Miles Davis Quintet/Round Midnight; Lale Andersen/Lili Marlene; Carmen McRae/Imagination; Ludwig van Beethoven/Symphony No. 3 in E Flat minor "Eroica".

H) Pete Seeger/Red River Valley; Carson Robison & His Pioneers/Theres a Bridle Hangin' on the Wall; Peter Paul & Mary/Blowin' in the Wind; Peter Paul & Mary/Leavin' on a Jet Plane; Vera Lynn/Now is the Hour; Simon & Garfunkel/Bridge Over Troubled Water; Joan Baez/Song of Bangladesh; Joan Baez/To Bobby.

i)  Wolfgang Mozart/Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat major; George F Handel/Silent Worship; Tom T Hall/Ravishing Ruby; César Franck/Paris Angelicus; Giuseppe Verdi/Caro Nome; Meade Lux Lewis/Closing Hour Blues; Noel Coward/A Bar on the Piccola Marina; Johann S Bach/Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

J)  Blue Mink/You Are the Sunshine of My Life; Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Pipes Drums and Military Band/Amazing Grace; Gloria Gaynor/Never Can Say Goodbye; Giuseppe Verdi/Celeste Aida; George McRae/Rock Your Baby; Leo Delibes & Maria Callas/Bell Song; Danny Kaye/There Is Nothing Like a Dame; Laurence Olivier/Once More Into the Breach (from Henry V).
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The answers will be posted in a few days/weeks in the comments section below.  If there's absolutely no response to the quiz, then there will be no answers posted. 

Ciao.