This week on the Music I-Quiz we investigate the use of colour in the world of music.  See if you can name these colour songs and artists.  For your enjoyment check out this video of The Dark Side of The Rainbow - it's what happens when you mix the Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

A big thanks to George Garner for alerting me to this fact. I mentioned in episode 34 that I had trouble tracking down the first song to become number one by a female artist. Well George had no trouble at all - here is a copy of his e-mail -
"But I was surprised by the difficulty you had finding the first female song to top the charts. I'm not sure if you're aware of the great almanac by Joel Whitburn called The Billboard Book of Top 40 Singles. He puts one out every four years and it lists every song and artist that ever hit the top 40 from 1955 to the publish date. And it shows that, in fact, the first 3 #1 songs on the Top 40 charts were from women: 1. Joan Weber, "Let Me Go Lover" (01/01/1955) 2. The Fontane Sisters, "Hearts of Stone" (02/05/1955) 3. The McGuire Sisters, "Sincerely". (02/12/1955) Those songs spent 4, 3, and 10 weeks at number 1 respectively. So for the first four-ish months the Billboard Top 40 chart was published, women ruled!"

I hand the reins over to you this week and do questions and topics suggested and produced by you - the dear listener.  Topics include boy bands, movie bands, lyrics and special guest quizmasters Dave and Jeremy. 

We celebrate International Women's Day this week with an all-sheila show.  There are questions on girl groups as well as 15 ground-breaking and influential women musicians. 

In case you didn't want to die not knowing all the answers - here they are. Now I cut and paste this from the winning entry of Steve Boorman - this is your competition folks. A big thankyou to everyone that entered, you guys ROCK!! I want to give special mention to Erik, who also got 100% and to my mate Kezzie who got a very respectable 19.25 (and she used to live with me - poor thing) -=Pick the Riff=- 1 Tracey Chapman - Talkin 'Bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman) 2 Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough (Tuesday Night Music Club) 3 Melissa Etheridge - Like the Way I Do (Melissa Etheridge) 4 k.d. lang - Constant Craving (Ingenue) 5 Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls) -=Mash up=- 6 The Police - Every Breath You Take (Synchronicity) Ben E. King - Stand By Me 7 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Thriller) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind) 8 Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell) - It Wasn't Me (Hot Shot) The Beatles - Let It Be (Let It Be) 9 Coldplay - In My Place (A Rush of Blood to the Head) Destiny's Child - Say My Name (The Writing's on the Wall) 10 The White Stripes- Seven Nation Army (Elephant) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) -= Cameo: Emmylou Harris =- 11 Duet: Bob Dylan Song: One More Cup of Coffee Album: Desire Album 12 Duet: Sarah McLachlan Song: Angel Album: Lilith Fair Vol 2 -=The Devil Made Me Do It=- 13 Duet: Gram Parsons Song: Love Hurts Album: Grievous Angel 14 Duet: Ryan Adams Song: Oh My Sweet Carolina Album: Heartbreaker 15 Duet: Lucinda Williams Song: Greenville Album: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -=Original or Cover=- 16 Original. "Rudy, A Message To You", by Dandy Livingstone. 17 R.E.M. cover of The Clique's, "Superman". 18 Cover by Joe cocker of "The Letter" Song written by Wayne Carson but performed by The Box Tops 19 Original. "You Can Leave Your Hat On" by Randy Newman. 20 James Taylor cover of "You've Got A Friend" by Carole King.

This week we explore those songs where the lyricist was having a day off and decided to just add some random whistling, la, la, las or finally some tuneful humming instead of writing real lyrics.  A warning, after listening to this episode there is a good chance that you'll be whistling for the rest of the day.  In this episode I also announce the winner of the Little Miss I-Quiz Pagaent.