Q 01/05

Who wrote and originally recorded "I Will Always Love You" in 1973?

A) Dolly Parton

B) Loretta Lynn

C) Tammy Wynette

D) Emmylou Harris

Answer · why

A) Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton wrote it as a goodbye to her mentor Porter Wagoner, then turned down an Elvis Presley cover when his camp demanded a share of the publish...

Q 02/05

Which actor pushed for Whitney Houston to open 'I Will Always Love You' with no music behind her?

A) Denzel Washington

B) Kevin Costner

C) Richard Gere

D) Mel Gibson

Answer · why

B) Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner, her co-star in The Bodyguard, said that singing the first lines without music would show how much her character loved his.

Q 03/05

Which Beatles song did Frank Sinatra call "the greatest love song of the past 50 years"?

A) Here, There and Everywhere

B) And I Love Her

C) Something

D) If I Fell

Answer · why

C) Something

Something was written by George Harrison, yet Sinatra, who sang it for years, is said to have introduced it on stage as a Lennon and McCartney song.

Q 04/05

Eric Clapton wrote 'Layla' about which woman, then married to his friend George Harrison?

A) Olivia Arias

B) Barbara Bach

C) Maureen Cox

D) Pattie Boyd

Answer · why

D) Pattie Boyd

Pattie Boyd turned Clapton down at first, but she divorced Harrison in 1977 and married Clapton in 1979, and the two guitarists stayed good friends.

Q 05/05

'Unchained Melody' takes its name from Unchained, a 1955 film set in what kind of place?

A) A circus

B) A prison

C) A zoo

D) A shipyard

Answer · why

B) A prison

A prison. The song voices an inmate longing for the wife waiting outside, and Todd Duncan sings it on screen as one of the prisoners.