Friday, June 19, 2009

June 1971 Contest Rules + Clues

On Friday June 19 "The Lost And Found Oldies Show" will be playing 25 B-sides of hit singles that were on the Billboard Hot 100 this date in 1971. You have a chance to win a $50 gift card simply by identifying the A-side of the single as well as the artist of each record. A point will be scored for every correct answer and the first person to Email lostoldies@yahoo.com with all 50 correct answers (25 artists/25 A-sides) wins the gift card! Your entry should look like this:

1. Sugar Sugar--The Archies
2. Lola--The Kinks
3. I Can't See Nobody--Bee Gees
etc up to #25.

Make sure the number matches the song!

If no one gets all 50 points, the person with the highest number of points will win a $25 gift card. In case of a tie, the FIRST person to Email me gets the prize. DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, 8:00 PM EST! Everyone will receive a reply Email your entry was received and the winner will be announced on Friday June 26 between 3 and 5pm. Listen to 91.3 FM or http://www.wvkr.org/ to win! Decisions of the judge (me) are final and WVKR management is in no way involved with the process other than to provide the broadcast. I'll be sprinkling subtle clues throughout the show and as a special treat for visiting this blogspot page, below are some additional clues for ya.

1.UA
2.RCA
3.A&M
4.Atlantic
5.MGM
6.Roulette
7.AVCO
8.Columbia
9.Bell
10.Invictus
11.Atlantic
12.UA
13.Dove
14.RCA
15.Buddah
16.UNI
17.Lionel
18.Dunhill
19.Elektra
20.RCA
21.MGM
22.Decca
23.Hot Wax
24.RCA
25.Bell

Additionally, spelling doesn't count, but accuracy does, ie if the song were "Who Loves You", I would accept "Four Seaons" or "4 Seasons" but NOT "Frankie Valli". HAVE FUN!!

1 comment:

The Orphanage of Rock and Roll said...

Dammm, Sammm... This was hard!

And who the heck is Eatabone telling me I can't win? I endured this show for two hours and then "Randy Baby (very randy!)" gets to tell me I don't qualify?

Sheesh. I probably got one or two wrong anyway. :-)

Pete