Q 01/05

What did Steely Dan give up in 1974 and not take up again until 1993?

A) Giving interviews

B) Releasing singles

C) Touring

D) Writing for other acts

Answer · why

C) Touring

Touring ended with a Santa Monica show in July 1974: Becker and Fagen let the band go and hired session players track by track, and Steely Dan stayed ...

Q 02/05

Before the term yacht rock existed, what was the same music known as?

A) The Jersey Shore sound

B) The West Coast sound

C) The Miami sound

D) The Philly sound

Answer · why

B) The West Coast sound

The West Coast sound was the original name, and it fit: the records came out of Los Angeles studios, where one small pool of elite session players kep...

Q 03/05

Which 1980 number one is often held up as yacht rock's anthem?

A) Cool Change

B) Sailing

C) Southern Cross

D) Come Sail Away

Answer · why

B) Sailing

Sailing grew out of Christopher Cross's teenage escapes on an older friend's boat, and he never expected so inward a song to be a hit, let alone a num...

Q 04/05

Christopher Cross was the first artist to do what at a single Grammy ceremony?

A) Win all four general-field awards

B) Host and win on the same night

C) Perform three times

D) Win in every category he was nominated

Answer · why

A) Win all four general-field awards

Win all four general-field awards: Record, Album and Song of the Year plus Best New Artist, with his debut beating Pink Floyd's The Wall to the album ...

Q 05/05

Which Kenny Loggins album track became a Doobie Brothers number one months later?

A) This Is It

B) Whenever I Call You Friend

C) What a Fool Believes

D) Heart to Heart

Answer · why

C) What a Fool Believes

What a Fool Believes appeared on Loggins's 1978 album Nightwatch five months before the Doobies' version; he wrote it with Michael McDonald after arri...