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Jerry Vale, the beloved crooner known for his high-tenor voice and romantic songs in the 1950s and early 1960s, has died. He was 83. Vale, who had been in declining health, died Sunday at his Palm Desert home surrounded by family and friends, family attorney Harold J. Levy said in a statement. He is survived by Rita, his wife of 55 years; a son, Robert; and a daughter, Pamela. Born Genaro Louis Vitaliano, Vale started performing in New York supper clubs as a teenager and went on to record more than 50 albums. His rendition of "Volare," ''Innamorata" and "Al Di La" became classic Italian-American songs. His biggest hit was "You Don't Know Me." Vale's recording of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the 1960s was played at sporting events for years. While his albums failed to make the charts in the early 1970s, Vale remained a popular club act. He also appeared as himself in the Martin Scorsese movies Goodfellas, Casino and TV's The Sopranos. Vale was a friend of fellow Italian-American crooner Frank Sinatra, and he was an honorary pallbearer at Sinatra's funeral on May 20, 1998. "While performing at the Sands [Hotel, in Las Vegas], I befriended a number of fellow entertainers. There was Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nat King Cole and, of course, I worked alongside one of my early idols, Frank Sinatra, whose generous recommendation landed me the job in the first place," Vale told Palm Springs Life in 2000. "I had heard so many negative stories about Frank that I was somewhat apprehensive to approach him. To my absolute surprise, he would up being quite amiable and the most caring individual that I have ever known."

Albums with a Title Track Aladdin Sane - David Bowie Back In Black - AC/DC Corporate America - Boston Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Mr. Neil Young Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet Give The People What They Want - The Kinks Havana Moon - Santana Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty J K Let It Be - The Beatles Minstrel In The Gallery - Jethro Tull N Other Side of Life, The - Moody Blues Piano Man - Billy Joel Quadrophenia - The Who R Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--The Beatles Time, Love and Tenderness - Michael Bolton Under A Raging Moon - Roger Daltrey V Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd X&Y - Coldplay Yellow Submarine - The Beatles Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie (referring to the Motion Picture live album and not "Rise and Fall of..."

Celebrities who use a Stage Name instead of their Birth Given Name. Alice Cooper Bono C David Bowie Elton John Freddie Mercury G Humperdinck, Engelbert I John Paul Jones K Lewis, Jerry Marilyn Monroe N O P!nk Q Ringo Starr Slash Tiny Tim U V W X Y Zombie, Rob

One Word Band names at least 7 letters long Alabama Bananarama Capercaillie Daughtry Everclear Foreigner Grandaddy Harlequin Incubus Journey Kraftwerk Loverboy Metallica Nirvana Orleans P Queensrÿche Radiohead Santana Traffic Ultravox Volbeat Whitesnake X Yardbirds Zebrahead

Albums with a title track (by album or artist) Aladdin Sane - David Bowie Back In Black - AC/DC C Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young E Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet Give The People What They Want - The Kinks Havana Moon - Santana Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty J K Let It Be - The Beatles M N O Piano Man - Billy Joel Q R Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--The Beatles Time, Love and Tenderness - Michael Bolton U V Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd X Y Z

One Word Band names at least 7 letters long Alabama Bananarama Capercaillie D Everclear Foreigner Grandaddy Harlequin Incubus Journey Kraftwerk Loverboy Metallica N Orleans P Queensrÿche Radiohead Santana Traffic Ultravox Volbeat Whitesnake X Yardbirds Zebrahead

Albums with a title track (by album or artist) Aladdin Sane - David Bowie Back In Black - AC/DC C Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young E Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet G Havana Moon - Santana Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty J K Let It Be - The Beatles M N O Piano Man - Billy Joel Q R Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--The Beatles T U V Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd X Y Z

One Word Band names at least 7 letters long Alabama Bananarama Capercaillie D Everclear Foreigner Grandaddy Harlequin Incubus Journey Kraftwerk L Metallica N O P Queensrÿche Radiohead Santana Traffic Ultravox Volbeat Whitesnake X Yardbirds Zebrahead

Kiss. Only band not from SF?

Bands with 5 or less letters in their name (not counting "The") ABBA Byrds Cream Doors Eels Focus Gwar Helix INXS Jet Kiss L Muse Naked Oasis Poco Queen R.E.M. Styx Toto U2 Vixen W.A.S.P. XTC Yes ZZ Top

Bands with 5 or less letters in their name (not counting "The") ABBA Byrds Cream Doors E F G H I J Kiss L M N O P Queen R S T U2 V W X Yes ZZ Top

Groups That Have At Least One Platinum Selling Album (And The Name Of The Album That Qualifies) AC/DC - Back In Black Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet) Chicago Transit Authority, The (The Chicago Transit Authority) D Eagles (Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975) F G H INXS (Kick) Journey (Escape) Kiss (Destroyer) Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin I) Metallica (Master Of Puppets) Nirvana (Nevermind) Ozzy Osbourne (No More Tears) Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon) Queen (News Of The World) Ratt (Out Of The Cellar) Santana (Supernatural) Twisted Sister (Stay Hungry) U2 (Joshua Tree) Van Halen (1984) W X Yes (Fragile) ZZ Top (Eliminator)

SEATTLE (AP) -- A handwritten note police discovered in Kurt Cobain's wallet after his suicide disparages Courtney Love, the late Nirvana front man's wife. CBS News reported that the note was taken from Cobain's wallet when police arrived at his home on April 8, 1994, after Cobain fatally shot himself. The note was never made public. CBS obtained it from the Seattle Police via a public information request. The network reports that the undated note, apparently written by Cobain on stationery from San Francisco's Phoenix Hotel, is written like a mock wedding vow. It references Love as Cobain's "lawful shredded wife" who would be "siphoning" his money for drugs. Cobain's body was discovered in Seattle on April 8, 1994. An investigation determined that days earlier Cobain had gone into the greenhouse of his home and taken a massive dose of heroin. He then shot himself with a 20-gauge shotgun. Earlier this year, in advance of the 20th anniversary of Cobain's suicide, a Seattle detective reviewed the case files, including evidence photos and statements. He found no new information to change the police conclusion that Cobain took his own life. Cobain, who was 27 when he died, sold millions of albums with Nirvana and helped popularize the Pacific Northwest's heavy, muddy "grunge" rock.

In response to Brad_M Things that are wrong about Putin. ABBA fan Behaves badly Communist D Eats turnip stew with Ukrainian soylent green meatballs F G He put in but he don't put out? In Russia, the power doesn't follow the office, it follows Putin. J Klepto of New England Patriots Super Bowl Ring Lubeh is his favorite band. Mama's Boy incognito Nuclear Warhead stasher Often goes commando Put a Frickin' Shirt on Val. Quietly planning out Chernobyl #2 in the works. RUSSIA! S T Ukraine dilemma Vladamir Lenin Putin Wipes back-to-front X-rays reveal radioactive bone structure Yells obscenities at kids when they go trick or treating Zombie apocalypse starter

Artists or Groups with a song that has a 9-letter word in the title. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Queensryche - Anybody Listening? R S Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World U V W X Y Z

NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94. Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him. "He was chopping wood 10 days ago," Cahill-Jackson recalled. Seeger - with his a lanky frame, banjo and full white beard - was an iconic figure in folk music. He performed with the great minstrel Woody Guthrie in his younger days and marched with Occupy Wall Street protesters in his 90s, leaning on two canes. He wrote or co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer," ''Turn, Turn, Turn," ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." He lent his voice against Hitler and nuclear power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an affable air and his banjo strapped on. "Be wary of great leaders," he told The Associated Press two days after a 2011 Manhattan Occupy march. "Hope that there are many, many small leaders." With The Weavers, a quartet organized in 1948, Seeger helped set the stage for a national folk revival. The group - Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman - churned out hit recordings of "Goodnight Irene," ''Tzena, Tzena" and "On Top of Old Smokey." Seeger also was credited with popularizing "We Shall Overcome," which he printed in his publication "People's Song," in 1948. He later said his only contribution to the anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the second word from "will" to "shall," which he said "opens up the mouth better." "Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old song is indebted in some way to Pete Seeger," Arlo Guthrie once said. His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup of his beloved Hudson River. Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years. He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: "I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American." He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal. Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter and others had created or preserved. "The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones," he told The Associated Press in 2006. " ... And I showed the kids there's a lot of great music in this country they never played on the radio." His scheduled return to commercial network television on the highly rated Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the blacklist. But CBS cut out his Vietnam protest song, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," and Seeger accused the network of censorship. He finally got to sing it five months later in a stirring return appearance, although one station, in Detroit, cut the song's last stanza: "Now every time I read the papers/That old feelin' comes on/We're waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big fool says to push on." Seeger's output included dozens of albums and single records for adults and children. He also was the author or co-author of "American Favorite Ballads," ''The Bells of Rhymney," ''How to Play the Five-String Banjo," ''Henscratches and Flyspecks," ''The Incompleat Folksinger," ''The Foolish Frog" and "Abiyoyo," ''Carry It On," ''Everybody Says Freedom" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone." He appeared in the movies "To Hear My Banjo Play" in 1946 and "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" in 1970. A reunion concert of the original Weavers in 1980 was filmed as a documentary titled "Wasn't That a Time." By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honors. Official Washington sang along - the audience must sing, was the rule at a Seeger concert - when it lionized him at the Kennedy Center in 1994. President Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them." Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as an early influence. Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honored him with "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," a rollicking reinterpretation of songs sung by Seeger. While pleased with the album, Seeger said he wished it was "more serious." A 2009 concert at Madison Square Garden to mark Seeger's 90th birthday featured Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder and Emmylou Harris among the performers. Seeger was a 2014 Grammy Awards nominee in the Best Spoken Word category, which was won by Stephen Colbert. Seeger's sometimes ambivalent relationship with rock was most famously on display when Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Witnesses say Seeger became furious backstage as the amped-up band played, though just how furious is debated. Seeger dismissed the legendary tale that he looked for an ax to cut Dylan's sound cable, and said his objection was not to the type of music but only that the guitar mix was so loud you couldn't hear Dylan's words. Seeger maintained his reedy 6-foot-2 frame into old age, though he wore a hearing aid and conceded that his voice was pretty much shot. He relied on his audiences to make up for his diminished voice, feeding his listeners the lines and letting them sing out. "I can't sing much," he said. "I used to sing high and low. Now I have a growl somewhere in between." Nonetheless, in 1997 he won a Grammy for best traditional folk album, "Pete." Seeger was born in New York City on May 3, 1919, into an artistic family whose roots traced to religious dissenters of colonial America. His mother, Constance, played violin and taught; his father, Charles, a musicologist, was a consultant to the Resettlement Administration, which gave artists work during the Depression. His uncle Alan Seeger, the poet, wrote "I Have a Rendezvous With Death." Pete Seeger said he fell in love with folk music when he was 16, at a music festival in North Carolina in 1935. His half brother, Mike Seeger, and half sister, Peggy Seeger, also became noted performers. He learned the five-string banjo, an instrument he rescued from obscurity and played the rest of his life in a long-necked version of his own design. On the skin of Seeger's banjo was the phrase, "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender" - a nod to his old pal Guthrie, who emblazoned his guitar with "This machine kills fascists." Dropping out of Harvard in 1938 after two years as a disillusioned sociology major, he hit the road, picking up folk tunes as he hitchhiked or hopped freights. "The sociology professor said, 'Don't think that you can change the world. The only thing you can do is study it,'" Seeger said in October 2011. In 1940, with Guthrie and others, he was part of the Almanac Singers and performed benefits for disaster relief and other causes. He and Guthrie also toured migrant camps and union halls. He sang on overseas radio broadcasts for the Office of War Information early in World War II. In the Army, he spent 3½ years in Special Services, entertaining soldiers in the South Pacific, and made corporal. Pete and Toshi Seeger were married July 20, 1943. The couple built their cabin in Beacon after World War II and stayed on the high spot of land by the Hudson River for the rest of their lives together. The couple raised three children. Toshi Seeger died in July at age 91. The Hudson River was a particular concern of Seeger. He took the sloop Clearwater, built by volunteers in 1969, up and down the Hudson, singing to raise money to clean the water and fight polluters. He also offered his voice in opposition to racism and the death penalty. He got himself jailed for five days for blocking traffic in Albany in 1988 in support of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose claim of having been raped by white men was later discredited. He continued to take part in peace protests during the war in Iraq, and he continued to lend his name to causes. "Can't prove a damn thing, but I look upon myself as old grandpa," Seeger told the AP in 2008 when asked to reflect on his legacy. "There's not dozens of people now doing what I try to do, not hundreds, but literally thousands. ... The idea of using music to try to get the world together is now all over the place."

Thanks for all the wonderful quizzes. The Quiz was my first introduction to songfacts; it taught me a lot about music facts, and introduced me to the great SF community. I'll miss the quizzes, but still will continue to contribute to the site. Happy new year!

I'm very about Hall & Oates & Linda Ronstadt both getting in. I was afraid that with 2 pop artists, only 1 or the other would get the nod.

Nirvana, Kiss and Peter Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The Rock Hall announced Tuesday that Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens also will be inducted April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after their first release. Nirvana received a nomination in its first year of eligibility and next year the band will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its debut, Bleach. The induction comes 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27. This year also marked first-time nominations for Hall and Oates, Gabriel, and Ronstadt. Kiss and Stevens, who have been nominated in the past, made the cut after being absent from the list for several years. The Rolling Stones's managers, Andrew Loog Oldham and Brian Epstein, will receive Ahmet Ertegun awards, a non-performing honor. Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band will get the award for musical excellence. N.W.A., one of the 16 nominees announced in October, did not make the cut. The iconic rap group includes Dr. Dre, who has launched successful solo albums and is the producer behind Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar. More than 700 Rock Hall voters determined the 2014 class. The 29th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be open to the public. Tickets go on sale next month. The event will air on HBO in May.

Television Dramas (past or present) A B CSI D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R Sopranos T U V W X Y Z

Songs about a guy or a girl who's afraid of losing his/her loved one. A B C Don't Want to Lose You - Gloria Estefan E Fire & Rain - James Taylor G H I Jolene - Dolly Parton K L M N O P Q Running Scared - Roy Orbison Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin T U V W X Your Love - Outfield Z

1. Turn Back the Hands of Time – Tyrone Davis (1970) 2. If I Could Turn Back Time – Cher (1989) 3. Election Day – Arcadia (1985) 4. Human – The Human League (1986) 5. If This Is It – Huey Lewis & The News (1983) 6. I Just Wanna Stop – Gino Vannelli (1978) 7. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You – The Beatles (1964) 8. Little Darlin' – The Diamonds (1957) 9. Don't Mess with Bill - Marvelettes (1965) 10. Superfly – Curtis Mayfield (1972)

Green Bay without Aaron Rogers is like... 10. a thirsty man with no tongue. 9. State Farm Insurance without their Discount Double Check guy. 8. A Wrangler Jeans commercial without Brett Favre. 7. Having weed and no rolling papers. 6. A Chinese Fire Drill 5. "Cheeseheads" without cheese heads 4. 3. 2. 1.

Things associated with Thanksgiving Apple Pie B Cool Whip...for that pumpkin pie D E Football Green Bean Casserole H I J K L Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Naps O Pumpkin Pie Q R Stars And Stripes Turkey U V Wine X Yam casserole Zucchini casserole

Happy Election Day - Arcadia (1985) And in honor of turning the clocks back this week to end daylight savings (and also in honor of Cher's guest spot on DWTS): If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher (1989) Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis (1970)