Flashback Pop Rock and Soul Trivia – 2/24/22

1. Archie Bell released one solo album after the breakup of The Drells. Name the album.
2. Levi Stubbs, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton were the founders of what group?
3. “Higher Love” became a chart topper for which artist?
4. What group released “Walk of Life”?
5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “When I was a young man and never been kissed, I got to thinkin’ over how much I had missed.”

Answers
1. “I Never Had It So Good,” in 1980. Bell continued to perform with The Drells now and then for the next two decades.
2. The Four Aims. They later called themselves The Four Tops because they didn’t want to be confused with the Ames Brothers.
3. Steve Winwood, in 1986. The song also netted two Grammys in 1987, beating Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” for Record of the Year.
4. Dire Straits, in 1985.
5. “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,” by The Weavers in 1951. Legend says Pete Seeger of The Weavers borrowed a 1937 Lead Belly blues version, which was rewritten from an Irish song about a farmer and his cow named Dicky. Others, including Jimmie Rodgers and Jackson Browne, have released versions.

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