JUNO trivia time again.
The 43rd annual awards are on CTV at 8pm Sunday March 30th. Tune in and watch some of the biggest names
in Canadian music perform their hit songs and collect their hip awards.
This year, Bachman-Turner Overdrive is being inducted into
the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. It all
works out quite neatly since the JUNO ceremony is in Winnipeg this year and the
band members are all from the Manitoba capital.
For this week’s quiz, we have 5 questions about previous
Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees. The
first two inductees into the Hall of Fame in 1978 were jazz pianist Oscar
Peterson and big band leader Guy Lombardo.
In 1979, it was country legend Hank Snow (originally from Nova Scotia). That’s all the facts we’re giving you, you’re
on your own from here on in. Oh! Canada, eh!
QUESTIONS
1. k. d. lang, Shania Twain
and Anne Murray are all in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. k.d went in last year, Shania in 2011 and
Anne was honoured in 1993. But who was
the first female inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame? She was born in Alberta, raised in
Saskatchewan and made her reputation as an incredible singer/songwriter in the
Los Angeles music scene of the late ‘60’s, early 70’s. She’s written and recorded many influential
albums such as “Blue”, “Ladies of the Canyon” and “Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm”. She wrote the hit “Woodstock” (hit versions
include Crosby, Stills & Nash and Ian Matthews aka Matthews Southern Comfort)
about the legendary 1969 three day concert in upstate New York, although she
didn’t actually attend the event. She’s
been a role model for female singer/ songwriters around the world for decades. Who is she?
2. This home grown inductee
is a world renowned producer who’s worked with artists such as U2, Peter
Gabriel, Willie Nelson, Robbie Robertson, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris and Bob
Dylan, among many others. He’s also
recorded several albums as a solo artist.
His JUNO collection includes 5 awards for “Producer of the Year’, one
for 1990’s ‘Most promising Male Vocalist of the Year’, another for 2006’s
‘Instrumental Album of the Year’ plus his Hall of Fame. Can you name this highly respected producer?
3. She was inducted into
the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1995.
She’s had her songs, such as “Until It’s Time For You To Go” and
“Universal Soldier” recorded by such performers as Elvis Presley, Barbra
Streisand, Neil Diamond, Donovan and Cher.
She regularly appeared on “Sesame Street” from 1976 until 1981. With her then husband Jack Nitzsche, she co-wrote
“Up Where We Belong” from the movie “An Officer And A Gentleman”, a 1982 # 1
hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, which won her a Golden Globe as well as
an Academy Award. She was born on the
Piapot Cree First Nations Reserve in Saskatchewan. She also has a PhD in Fine Arts and has
taught Digital Music at several colleges.
Do you know the name of this amazingly talented Canadian performer?
4. In 1980, this
singer/songwriter/performer was the 4th inductee in the Canadian
Music Hall of Fame. His first # 1 hit came
in 1957 with a song he wrote about his babysitter. As a solo artist, he charted 53 songs on
Billboards’ Hot 100 chart, which includes 12 Top Ten hits and 3 # 1’s. As well as his own chart successes, he’s also
written hits recorded by Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and Elvis Presley. There’s a street named after him in his
hometown of Ottawa. He wrote the theme
song for Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” and the title song for the 1962 World
War II film, “The Longest Day”. In 1974,
he got into a bit of trouble with women’s groups in the U.S. for his # 1 hit, “(You’re)
Having My Baby”. Who is this Hall of
Famer?
5. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, but his
family moved to British Columbia when he was quite young. In the mid 1970’s, he replaced Nick Gilder as
lead singer in the group Sweeny Todd, but it was as a solo performer that he
had his biggest successes. He’s had four
# 1 hits on Billboards’ Hot 100 chart – his first was in 1985, his last in
1995. He’s sold tens of millions of
albums and has nominated for JUNO awards over 50 times (he’s won 20). He’s been nominated for an Academy Award 15
times and won once. He has the Order of
Canada plus the Order of British Columbia.
Three out of his four #1 single hits were songs that were written for Hollywood
motion pictures. He shares a last name
with two early Presidents of the United States.
Who is this guy?
ANSWERS
1. When Joni
Mitchell went into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1981, she was
inducted by none other than the current Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre
Trudeau. In addition to her Hall of Fame
honour, Joni won a JUNO for ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ in 1976, ‘Best Vocal
Jazz Album’ in 2001 for “Both Sides Now” and the ‘Jack Richardson Producer of
the year’ JUNO in 2008. Joni’s first
album, “Song To A Seagull”, was released in 1968 on the Reprise label
(co-founded by Frank Sinatra). Joni’s
most successful album, 1971’s “Blue” went Platinum in the U.S. and Canada and
two times Platinum in Great Britain.
Although Joni’s sold tens of millions of albums, her only Top Ten
singles hit was 1974’s “Help Me”, which climbed to # 7 on Billboards’ Hot 100
chart. Previously, Judy Collins had had
a # 8 hit with Joni’s song “Both Sides Now” in 1968.
2. Daniel Lanois won his first ‘Producer of the Year’ JUNO award in
1987 for his work on both Peter Gabriel’s album, “So” as well as U2’s “The
Joshua Tree”. In 1989, he won again for producing
Robbie Robertson’s self-titled solo album. Then he took home the re-named ‘Jack
Richardson Producer of the Year’ JUNO statue three more times – in 2002, 2009
and 2011. His solo albums include 1989’s
“Acadie”, “For The Beauty of Wynona” (1993) and 2005’s “Belladonna”. Rolling Stone Magazine called Lanois, the
“most important record producer to emerge in the Eighties”. Long before Miley Cyrus ‘borrowed’ the title
“Wrecking Ball”, it was the album title of Daniel’s 1995 collaboration with
Emmylou Harris. The album won a Grammy
Award in 1996. Daniel Lanois also has a
star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto.
He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
3. That would be Saskatchewan’s own Buffy Sainte-Marie. She’s a pioneer, an activist and
philanthropist. In the early 1980’s,
Buffy began composing her music and her visual art on Apple computers. She’s an extremely accomplished and
successful visual artist today with art exhibitions in Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver
and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 2010, Buffy received the
Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.
She’s an Officer in the Order of Canada, has a star on Canada’s Walk of
Fame and has received Honourary Doctorates from a dozen Canadian
universities. Buffy was inducted into
the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1995
4. Paul Anka
is the name we were looking for. You
know you’re famous when your hometown names a street after you. In 1972, the city of Ottawa named Paul Anka
Drive in honour of the man who wrote and recorded “Diana” in 1957. Since then, Paul’s had a dozen Top Ten hits which
includes three # 1’s – “Diana” being his first; “Lonely Boy” (1959) was Paul’s
second chart topper with 1974’s “(You’re) Having My Baby” as his third and last
(so far anyway). Songs Paul wrote that
became hits for other performers include “My Way”, recorded by Frank Sinatra as
well as Elvis Presley; 1971’s “She’s A Lady” for Tom Jones and the 1959 Buddy
Holly hit, “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” (After Holly’s death in February of ‘59,
Anka donated his composer royalties to Buddy’s widow). Paul was the 4th inductee in the
Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1980.
5. Bryan Adams has been hugely successful on the record charts. “Heaven” was his first # 1 on Billboards’ Hot 100 in 1985. He next hit the top singles spot again in ’91
with “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”, a song written for the Kevin Costner
film, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”.
That song was # 1 for 7 weeks.
Three years later, “All For Love” which also featured Rod Stewart and
Sting went to # 1. It had been written
for “The Three Musketeers” movie starring Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie
Sheen. Johnny Depp’s 1995 film, “Don
Juan DeMarco”, scored Adams his fourth # 1 with “Have You Ever Really Loved A
Woman”. Bryan received his star on
Canada’s Walk of Fame in 1998 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011. Although Adams still continues to write,
record and perform music, he’s also a highly respected photographer, often
taking the cover photo for Canada’s Zoomer Magazine. Bryan Adams was inducted into the Canadian
Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
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