# Music trivia question (heard on a Crap from the Past episode) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803 "2020-06-30T15:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/21 "2020-07-01T20:44:02Z")
There are lots of songs where the octave jump is in the chorus. Maybe fewer songs where it’s in the verse? Maybe he’s limiting it to well known pop songs? Idk. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/22 "2020-07-01T20:55:51Z")
I don’t think it’s as common as people think. There are plenty of pop songs by duos or multi-singer groups with different octaves to suit each singer, but it’s pretty unusual for a solo singer to change octaves. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/23 "2020-07-01T22:04:40Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I don’t think it’s as common as people think. There are plenty of pop songs by duos or multi-singer groups with different octaves to suit each singer, but it’s pretty unusual for a solo singer to change octaves Which is why I noticed it - I have a narrow vocal range and always had trouble with these. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/24 "2020-07-02T00:52:26Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > There must be something more to the answer, only because I find it hard to believe it would take someone two years to come with 25 songs where the singer jumps up an octave. I think so too - because I feel like Mariah Carey does this _all the time_ (Even though they only list one of her songs). And I think Celine Dion does it. Also, playing “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” once is kind of campy fun. 4 times is a kind of torture. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/25 "2020-07-02T03:05:08Z")
I’ll gloat even if you all are being sore losers. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/26 "2020-07-02T18:23:28Z")
Damn, I thought it was going to be “people who have never been in my kitchen”. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/27 "2020-07-09T21:37:08Z")
I finally had a chance to listen to [last Friday’s Crap from the Past episode](https://archive.org/details/cftp-2020-07-03) in which Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber gives the answer to the trivia question. # **needscoffee** and I technically had it exactly right, but there was an extra detail in Ron’s answer: one of the later verses in each song is sung an octave higher than the first verse. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/28 "2020-07-09T21:39:43Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I finally had a chance to listen to [last Friday’s Crap from the Past episode](https://archive.org/details/cftp-2020-07-03) in which Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber gives the answer to the trivia question. # **needscoffee** and I technically had it exactly right, but there was an extra detail in Ron’s answer: one of the later verses in each song is sung an octave higher than the first verse I added that in post #19. > [@Music trivia question (heard on a Crap from the Past episode)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/19): > > More specifically, the octave jumps are the whole verse jumping up an octave, not just a random part of the song. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803/29 "2020-07-09T21:45:35Z")
You’re right! I didn’t notice that earlier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-trivia-question-heard-on-a-crap-from-the-past-episode/913803.md?page=1)