FLASHBACK

1. What was the name of the Alice Cooper band’s debut album, and when was that?

2. Name King Crimson’s first single to chart.

3. What was the original name of the band Supertramp?

4. Who sang “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)” and when?

5. What is the stage name of Stacey Lynn Swain? What’s her most well-known hit?

6. Which group had a modest hit in 1971 with “Love Is Life” off its eponymous debut album?

Answers

1. “Pretties for You” (1969).

2. “The Court of the Crimson King” in 1969. It was the group’s first chart song — and the last — in the U.S.

3. Daddy, before renaming themselves in early 1970. Supertramp’s first two albums didn’t chart, but the 1974 album “Crime of the Century” made it to No. 38 in the U.S.

4. Aretha Franklin, in 1967. The song went to No. 1 on the U.S. R&B chart, followed by chart-toppers “Respect” and “Baby I Love You.”

5. Stacey Q (with Q being the name of her first band). The song “Two of Hearts” off her “Better Than Heaven” album (1986) climbed to No. 3 on the charts.

6. Earth, Wind & Fire.

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