IQ: Do people sometimes mishear your name and imagine you to be comparing yourself to a large arachnid?
Not Billy Preston.
No idea who this is- ask a DQ.
Begging your pardon - what about my two IQs in posts #130 and #132?
I apologize.
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No, I’m not Boz Scaggs.
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I don’t know the insulin discoverer, so ask a DQ.
Bix Beiderbecke, whose name is occasionally misheard as “Big Spider Beck”.
DQ: Is that marching band song you wrote affiliated with a particular university’s sports teams?
IQ: Were you the player-manager of an “Original 16” Major League Baseball team the last time it won the World Series?
Yes, one of my songs is the official fight song of a major college football team.
- Real person
- Male
- First name starts with “B”
- Dead
- Born in the 20th century
- Not involved with sports/athletics
- American
- Not involved in politics
- Best known for work in music, theater, movies or literature.
- Best known for work done between 1950-2000
- Best known as a writer in the field of music
- Never wrote a movie screenplay.
- Never wrote novels or short stories
- Not generally regarded as humorous or comical
- Not a playwright
- Rarely performed my own material.
- A successful songwriter in pop and at least one other genre.
- Not a conductor or bandleader
- Still alive as of 1975
- I wrote the official fight song of a major college football team
Not Lou Boudreau
The co-discoverers of insulin are Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best, for whom the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at University of Toronto is named.
Now, I’m really not sure what to do with a DQ now that we’ve asked our twenty questions, and I’m as stumped as a BC clear-cut. As per previous ones, this is the time when we start taking wild guesses on precise names, but I have no names to guess at yet…
I’ll try one DQ: As a songwriter, did you collaborate with a lyricist?
Yes, I almost always collaborated with a lyricist… one I was sleeping with.
- Real person
- Male
- First name starts with “B”
- Dead
- Born in the 20th century
- Not involved with sports/athletics
- American
- Not involved in politics
- Best known for work in music, theater, movies or literature.
- Best known for work done between 1950-2000
- Best known as a writer in the field of music
- Never wrote a movie screenplay.
- Never wrote novels or short stories
- Not generally regarded as humorous or comical
- Not a playwright
- Rarely performed my own material.
- A successful songwriter in pop and at least one other genre.
- Not a conductor or bandleader
- Still alive as of 1975
- I wrote the official fight song of a major college football team
- I almost always worked with a lyricist… one who was MUCH more than just a lyricist to me.
IQ: Do you still dream about someone who was wild as a mink and sweet as soda pop?
(obviously I have someone specific in mind!)
IQ: Is your best-known hit “Rock Around the Clock”?
Not Bill Haley
**YESSSS! AT LAST!!!
I am Boudleaux Bryant. Together with my wife Felice, I wrote:
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Almost all of the Everly Brothers’ biggest hits (including “Bye Bye Love,” “Bird Dog” and "Wake Up Little Susie)
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“Love Hurts,” the FM rock hit by Nazareth
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“Rocky Top,” one of the state songs of Tennessee and the fight song of the Tennessee Volunteers’ athletic teams.
Congrats, Sternvogel!!!
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Well done, Sternvogel!
I’ve even seen that name in the upper RH corner of several pieces of sheet music - I have no excuse.
Never heard of him, but have certainly heard his songs. Good job, Sternvogel!
Thanks! I had an idea it might be Bryant, and the “collaborating both in the music room and the bedroom” reference convinced me I was on the right track.
Okay, the next name has an “R” rating, but the game should be SFW.
IQ: Did you once do the radio play-by-play for a baseball game you weren’t even watching?
No, I’m not Ronald Reagan.