The Mick & Dave Show – Northern Soul & Motown Quiz

🎶🕺 NORTHERN SOUL & MOTOWN MUSIC QUIZ – OUT NOW! 💃🎶

Do you know your Frank Wilson from The Four Tops? Can you tell your Marvin Gaye from The Temptations?

Then it's time to put your music knowledge to the test with the latest Mick & Dave Music Quiz!

🎵 25 questions
🎤 Classic Northern Soul & Motown anthems
🎧 Music clips to get you singing along
😂 Plenty of Mick & Dave banter... and, of course, the usual Load of Bollocks!

Whether you're listening in the van, on site, down the pub, or reliving the glory days of Wigan Casino and the Twisted Wheel, this quiz is guaranteed to get you shouting the answers before Dave gives them away!

🏆 Can you beat Quizmaster Mick?
🤔 More importantly... can you beat your mates?

🎧 Listen now:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2532392/episodes/19584263-the-mick-dave-show-northern-soul-motown-quiz.mp3?download=true

When you've finished, let us know your score in the comments!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:29

Hey Mick, how's it going? I'm good, Dave. How are you? Yeah, looking forward to this quiz. So before we say any more, I'm gonna get hand over to you and away you go.

SPEAKER_08 0:46

How's it going? Not three, but I'll be better when this bloody boot comes off.

SPEAKER_07 0:51

But anyhow. No man, no man. Where it is, Oxpacial hazard. What are we gonna do is quiz? What quiz? Well, I thought this time we'd do a Northern Soul and More Town quiz, because I kind of love that kind of music, and let's go.

SPEAKER_08 1:06

Yeah, so you're not shy today, then, is it?

SPEAKER_07 1:11

You could say that being a rock band, but I kind of say his decent music tastes. All right, okay, so are we gonna go for it? Yeah, let's give it a go. Right, so I'll hand you over to our quizmaster, Mick, and away we go.

SPEAKER_08 2:06

Even though Dave wants me to start at the bottom of the page and start with question twenty. But no, we're starting with question one. So who sang out on the floor? Wow, what a record. Question two.

SPEAKER_07 2:41

Absolutely classic.

SPEAKER_08 2:44

Question three. Who sang? Do I love you? Indeed I do.

SPEAKER_07 2:57

I'm glad you said that.

SPEAKER_08 3:00

Well, you know. Question four is a music clip. We want to know the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_13 3:11

Everybody won a week and another boy to play with. That's not easy to do.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 3:39

Question five. Who sang Jimmy Mac?

SPEAKER_07 3:50

Jimmy, Jimmy Mac. Yep, got me, got it, got it, go on. Who sang I got it?

SPEAKER_08 3:58

Question six. Right, go on. Who sang I Can't Help Myself? Sugar Pie Honey Bunch.

SPEAKER_07 4:13

Yep, yep, yep. Got it, got it.

SPEAKER_08 4:17

Question seven. Who sang dancing in the street? Now just remember, it's Northern Soul and Motown.

SPEAKER_07 4:27

So it's not Jamie Bowie or Mick Jagger, you're trying to tell us. I wouldn't be giving clues away like that, would I? I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 4:35

I hope. Question eight. Who sang? Reach out, I'll be there.

SPEAKER_07 4:55

Yeah, chop one. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_08 4:58

Question nine is another music clip for you. We want to know the name of the record and the artist. Who sang Needle in the haystack? Yep, got it. Question eleven. Who sang my girl? My girl? Question twelve? Who sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough?

SPEAKER_07 6:12

I think a few people sung that.

SPEAKER_08 6:17

Right, question thirteen. Who sang baby love? Got it. Question fourteen. Name the record and the artist from this music list.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

They say you like to cheat. They say you are just a little flay and if I fall for you to cheat.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

I'm surely gonna get a high.

SPEAKER_07 7:00

Good I will listen to that.

SPEAKER_08 7:03

Question fifteen. Who sang Band of Gold?

SPEAKER_07 7:13

Some good questions here, Mick. Some good questions. We're still going. We're still going.

SPEAKER_08 7:19

Question 16. Another music clip. We want to know the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_14 7:34

Sometimes I feel like to run away, I've got to get away from the penny drive into the heartbeat.

SPEAKER_08 8:00

Question seventeen Who sang What's Going On? Question eighteen Who sang You Keep Me Hangin' On? Question nineteen Another Music Clip We want to know the name of the record and the artist. Question twenty should have been a song for us, Dave, when we first started out. Question twenty, who sang Ain't Too Proud to Beg?

SPEAKER_07 9:04

Yeah, yeah, we do a bit of that. Please listen. Oh dear me.

SPEAKER_08 9:17

Question twenty-one. Who sang This Old Heart of Mine is weak for you?

SPEAKER_07 9:30

This old heart of mine.

SPEAKER_08 9:32

Yep, brilliant. Got it. Question twenty-two is another music clip. So we would need to know the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_06 9:45

Just remember, we need to see how far away far from me. Just you know, we need to see the way you turn away from me.

unknown 10:07

You know you can't forget that there was no one but beat for you.

SPEAKER_08 10:23

Who sang Nowhere to Run? Question twenty-four. Who sang I heard it through the grapevine? Heard it through the grapevine. And question twenty-five. Who sang You're ready now?

SPEAKER_07 10:55

Do we have a bonus?

SPEAKER_08 10:57

Do we have a bonus? We do indeed. We have a five-point bonus question. Go on. We want to know who founded Motown Records in 1959.

SPEAKER_07 11:16

Oh, brilliant. Some good questions, some good questions. Yeah. And the mad thing is, go on. I know most of them. Well, I shut up. You do. Proper music. It's not that I know that shite you normally listen to. Proper stuff, have you heard yourself? Proper music.

unknown 11:36

No.

SPEAKER_08 11:36

You won't let me do, you won't let me do what I want to do, proper music, because somebody buddy listened.

SPEAKER_07 11:41

That's why it'll only be you listening. And you don't have to do it. You'll be surprised. You will be surprised. When was the last time you listened? Oh right, go on. Let's go for answers.

SPEAKER_08 11:59

Okay. So question one, we asked who sang out on the floor.

SPEAKER_07 12:05

Oh yeah, basically. Get your mo get your token powder down on that floor and have a have a dance along with Dolby Grey out on the floor. Definitely. Question two, we asked who sang the snake. The snake, yeah. Al Green got released in 1968. Put your glasses back on. Sorry. Al Green. Sorry to go. Al Wilson and got released in 1968. God, you even got your specs on, you still can't read.

SPEAKER_08 12:39

Question three. We asked. Who sang? Do I love you? Indeed, I do.

SPEAKER_07 12:47

Yeah, that was Frank Wilson. Hang on, hang on. So Mick, snake, Al Green, Al Wilson, weren't it? Well, that's what you put. Yeah. Right?

SPEAKER_08 13:02

You said Al Green.

SPEAKER_07 13:03

I did, yeah, yeah. No, it's fine. I thought it'd be right. Oh, I need to pull that shite out. I think you should leave it in.

SPEAKER_08 13:12

I might leave some. So question three was who sang Do I Love You? Indeed, I do.

SPEAKER_07 13:21

That was sung by Frank Wilson and got released in 1965.

SPEAKER_08 13:28

Or everybody who's absolutely pissed up on the Friday night. Question four. Was the music clip? We wanted to know the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_13 13:47

That's not easy to do.

SPEAKER_12 13:54

We it's someone.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 14:09

Right, the record was I'm gonna run away from you, and the artist was a lady called Tammy Lynn. It got released in nine, it got to number four in 1971. Question five. Who sang Jimmy Mack? Jimmy Mack was sang sung by Martha and the Vandelas, Martha Reason Vandelas. It got released in 1964. Didn't really make the charge till about 1967.

SPEAKER_08 14:38

Question six, who sang I Can't Help Myself? Sugar Pie Honeybunch.

SPEAKER_07 14:45

That was sung by the four chops, got released in 1965, spent two weeks in number one in the US. Question seven, we asked who sang Dancing in the Street? Yeah, this one again, Marflays and Vandelas. Also for Live Aid, Bowie and Jagger covered it in Live Aid, but what we were looking for were Martha's and Vandelas that got released in 1964. Question eight. Who sang Reach Out? I'll be there. Again, Reach Out I'll Be There was uh sung by the Four Tops. It got released in 1966 and made number one in both the UK and the USA.

SPEAKER_08 15:28

Question nine, we there's a music clip. We asked you for the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_07 16:05

The artist is Las Bravos. It got released in 1966 and released got to number two in the U in the UK charts and number four in the USA. Question 10. Who sang Needle in a Haystack? Needle in a Haystack that was sung by the Velvellettes, got released in 1964. I was so waiting for you to cock that one up. I would say more through reasonable than the others again.

SPEAKER_08 16:36

That's what I was expecting.

SPEAKER_07 16:39

Question 11. Thank God who sang My Girl? My girl. One of my favourite records was sung by the Fantastic Temptations.

SPEAKER_08 16:52

Question 12. Who sang Ain't No Mountain High Enough?

SPEAKER_07 16:57

The version the version we're looking for was Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell. Got released in 1967. And question 13, who sang Baby Love? Baby Love, sung by the Supremes, got released in 1964, made US made number one in US charts.

SPEAKER_08 17:16

Question 14 was a music clip. We want to know the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

They say you like to cheat. They say you were just a little flay.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

And if I pop for you, I'm surely gonna get her.

SPEAKER_07 17:53

Became one of Northern Soul favorites. So question 15. We asked who sang Band of Gold.

SPEAKER_08 18:09

Question 16 was the music clip. We want to know the name of the record of the artist.

SPEAKER_07 18:48

So the record is Tainted Love and the artist was Gloria Jones. It's again a northern soul anthem. Question 17, who sang What's Going On? What's Going On was sung by Marvin Gaye, got released in 1971. Question 18, who sang You Keep Me Hanging On? You Keep Me Hanging On was sung by the Supremes. It got released in 1966. It reached number one in the US. USA.

SPEAKER_08 19:19

Question 19. Another music clip. We want to know the name of the record and the artist.

SPEAKER_07 19:47

The record was Love on the Mountain Top. The artist was Robert Knight. It got released in nineteen sixty-eight at the UK charts. And again, come another soul classic.

SPEAKER_08 19:59

Question twenty. Who sang Ain't Too Pound? Ain't Too Proud to Beg? Say that again.

SPEAKER_07 20:13

That was sung by the Temptations, it got released in 1966. 21. Who sang this old heart of mine is weak for you? This old heart of mine was sung by the Isler brothers. Got released in 1966.

SPEAKER_08 20:31

Question 22. Another music clip. We want to know the name of the record and the artists.

SPEAKER_06 20:39

Just remember, we need to see the far away far from me. Just remember the way it comes.

SPEAKER_07 21:13

Oh yeah, top absolute top this one. The artist was The Shakers, released in 1967. Question 23. Who sang Nowhere to Run? Again, we've done a few times this quiz, it's more three of the Vandelas. Got released in 65. And I think it features in the film Good Morning Vietnam. Question 24. Who sang I Heard It Through the Grapevine? I Heard It Through the Grapevine. Question 25, who sang You're Ready Now? You're Ready Now was basically sung by Frankie Valley. Got released in 1966. He didn't really make the charts about 1970.

SPEAKER_08 22:09

And then the bonus question was who founded Motown Records in 1959?

SPEAKER_07 22:17

Motown Records was founded by a gentleman called Baby Gordy Jr. Uh obviously went on to be what can I say, most successful music ever. If you notice a lot of records was released in the 60s when Tam and Motown and Northern Soul was kind of in its head, you know, the 60s and the 70s. So yeah, great quiz that was back when I was just entering the world. Born too late. There's a record about you. Yeah, there probably is to be fair. There is, there is, yeah, yeah, yeah. I I think that'll be a good quiz. So yeah, we'll get you into Northern Soul Mick and a bit uh we'll get you like in it. So we want to go back on before we finish. I don't think so. Right. Well, I've hope you enjoy it. Play along with your friends. Tell everybody we do get thousands of downloads for these. Thanks to all the friends from America who seem to embrace all the quizzes and everything else they do. Yeah, and lads from UK as well. So, lads and lasses. So, yeah, thanks for everybody for joining along and playing along with us. So, all I'm gonna say is a good bye from me, Dave, and and when he gets his words out, it's a good bye from me, Mick. See you later. Bye. See you later.

SPEAKER_10 23:51

Always look on the bright side of life.

SPEAKER_11 23:58

Always look on the light side of life, you know.