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

She wrote it as a farewell to her mentor Porter Wagoner when she left his show to go solo.

Q 02/05

How many weeks did Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' spend at number one on the Hot 100?

A) 10

B) 14

C) 16

D) 8

Answer · why

B) 14

It was a record at the time and made it the best-selling single ever by a female solo artist, with over 25 million copies sold.

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

It was written by George Harrison and became the first Harrison composition issued as a Beatles A-side.

Q 04/05

George Harrison said the inspiration for his 1969 ballad on Abbey Road was which person?

A) Olivia Arias

B) Yoko Ono

C) Maureen Cox

D) Pattie Boyd

Answer · why

D) Pattie Boyd

He imagined the composition in the style of Ray Charles, but the muse was his wife at the time.

Q 05/05

"Unchained Melody" was originally written as the theme for what kind of 1955 film?

A) A wartime romance

B) A prison drama

C) A Western

D) A Broadway musical adaptation

Answer · why

B) A prison drama

The film was simply called Unchained, and Todd Duncan sang the song on its soundtrack; it earned an Oscar nomination.