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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #75 on: February 12, 2006, 10:21:59 PM »
Gotta go to bed - so just in case i am right. 

Who is Rexy's famous quote "It ain't over until the fat lady sings" named after and how did it come about?

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #76 on: February 12, 2006, 11:12:35 PM »
Who is Rexy's famous quote "It ain't over until the fat lady sings" named after and how did it come about?

Presumably it comes from opera and a soprano blasting out an aria at the end. I once heard someone say it was "named" after Dame Joan Sutherland.
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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #77 on: February 12, 2006, 11:34:35 PM »
I'm awake Moi - I am working the graveyard shift - and congrats you win. :clapping

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #78 on: February 13, 2006, 06:26:54 AM »
Who is Rexy's famous quote "It ain't over until the fat lady sings" named after and how did it come about?

Presumably it comes from opera and a soprano blasting out an aria at the end. I once heard someone say it was "named" after Dame Joan Sutherland.
Nope, not Joan Sutherland

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #79 on: February 13, 2006, 08:18:03 AM »
Kate Smith??

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« Reply #80 on: February 13, 2006, 09:40:59 AM »
Yep, Kate Smith is correct.

But apart from the reason she was rather large, how did the expression come about?

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #81 on: February 13, 2006, 10:02:21 AM »
She always finished events by singing God Bless America hence "It ain't over till the fat lady sings".

Over to you, Tiga  :thumbsup

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #82 on: February 13, 2006, 02:46:43 PM »
Hopefully here is a tricky one...On what Phil Collins Album does he sing a tune originally sung by Judy Garland?

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #83 on: February 13, 2006, 03:19:13 PM »
Hopefully here is a tricky one...On what Phil Collins Album does he sing a tune originally sung by Judy Garland?

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Q. Who did the backing vocals in U2's "Pride"?
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« Reply #84 on: February 13, 2006, 08:43:24 PM »
Hopefully here is a tricky one...On what Phil Collins Album does he sing a tune originally sung by Judy Garland?

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Q. Who did the backing vocals in U2's "Pride"?
Correct MT  :thumbsup

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #85 on: February 14, 2006, 06:39:44 AM »
Hopefully here is a tricky one...On what Phil Collins Album does he sing a tune originally sung by Judy Garland?

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Might need a clue, sonny  :help

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #86 on: February 14, 2006, 08:27:33 AM »
Was it that lead singer chick from the pretenders with the jet black hair and the overgrown fringe?? Ummm Chrissie hind or something like that? She has
very distinctive vocals. Not a big fan of U2's latter stuff but I really like the albums 'Boy' and 'War'. Gritty edgy stuff before they became mainstream pop.

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« Reply #87 on: February 14, 2006, 04:38:24 PM »
Was it that lead singer chick from the pretenders with the jet black hair and the overgrown fringe?? Ummm Chrissie hind or something like that? She has
very distinctive vocals. Not a big fan of U2's latter stuff but I really like the albums 'Boy' and 'War'. Gritty edgy stuff before they became mainstream pop.

Well done tiga. Spot on  :thumbsup.

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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #88 on: February 15, 2006, 10:14:04 PM »
Who am I?

I was one of the members of 1980s new-romantic duo Seona Dancing?




Clue1: I later on in my life created one of the most successful British comedies of recent times.

Clue2: tiga would know the answer even if he doesn't realise it yet lol ;).
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Re: Music quiz
« Reply #89 on: February 16, 2006, 08:39:12 AM »
Ricky Gervais - Cracked up when I first saw the pics  :lol

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