#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: Jackson Browne's "The Load-Out" is a thank you to these folks who move & set up equipment--"Let" them "Take the Stage" roadies |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Before he was infamous, Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many '60s hits the Wall of Sound |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1200: The many Grammys of this legendary musician & producer include Best R&B Song for "Cuff It" in 2023 Nile Rodgers |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: A 2008 documentary tells the story of the legendary group of L.A. studio musicians known by this destructive nickname The Wrecking Crew |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The Beatles were just one of many artists with whom this legendary English producer crafted hit after hit George Martin |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: Songwriter Hoyt Axton changed the opening line of "Joy To The World" from "Jeremiah was a prophet" to this a bullfrog |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Rick James' only Grammy came after he sued & got credit for the hook in this 1990 MC Hammer song "U Can't Touch This" |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1200: In 1981 Dolly Parton & Sheena Easton both had No. 1 singles with this numerical phrase in their titles "9 to 5" |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: In 1957 Little Richard quit secular music for 5 years after seeing a sign in the sky that turned out to be this new satellite Sputnik |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: In 1975, after hearing a mastered version of this now-classic album, Bruce Springsteen threw it in a pool Born to Run |
#8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $200: In 2011 this singer said, "'Born This Way' is my answer to many questions over the years: Who are you? What are you about?" Lady Gaga |
#8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: At the beginning of "Bad Guy", you can hear this young star removing her Invisalign braces so she doesn't lisp as she sings Billie Eilish |
#8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $600: Unarmed civil rights protesters were killed on Jan. 30, 1972, the "Sunday Bloody Sunday" that inspired that song by this group U2 |
#8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: In concert, after playing this song that begins, "Don't go changing, to try & please me", Billy Joel said, "& then we got divorced" "Just The Way You Are" |
#8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1000: After she said, "They tried to make me go to rehab & I told them no no no", her producer told her, "We should turn that into a song" Amy Winehouse |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: Freddie Mercury approved the use of this song in "Wayne's World" just weeks before his death "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Gloria Gaynor recorded the vocals to this No. 1 hit while in a wheelchair due to a spinal injury "I Will Survive" |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1200: Irving Berlin gave Kate Smith this song for her radio show to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of WWI "God Bless America" |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: George Gershwin composed this 1924 piece as a 2-piano score, leaving Ferde Grofé to arrange 1 piano part for full band "Rhapsody In Blue" |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The ancient libation, revived in hip-hop culture, is honored in "Pour Out A Little Liquor" by Thug Life featuring this late rapper Tupac |
#8079, aired 2019-10-24 | BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE $1600: "Professor" Harold Hill is the title character of this 1957 show The Music Man |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $600: (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) Giving a big boost to his career in 1968 this singer went behind bars to record an epic live album at Folsom Prison (Johnny) Cash |
#7463, aired 2017-02-08 | TV MOVIES $800: This Oscar-winning actor brought the man & the music to life as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" Michael Douglas |
#6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set The Nutcracker |
#5385, aired 2008-01-25 | POP MUSIC $200: The title of a 2005 album by The White Stripes is "Get Behind Me" you Satan |
#5178, aired 2007-02-28 | NICKNAMES $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in Radio City Music Hall, New York.) The theatrical mind behind Radio City was Samuel Rothafel, better known by this nickname also found on a movie palace he opened Roxie |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | TV TIDBITS $1600: (The voice of VH1's "Behind the Music", Jim Forbes, delivers the clue.) 3 of the 6 words that flash on the screen near the start of each "Behind the Music" episode (3 of) glory, fame, passion, success, heartbreak & fortune |
#4153, aired 2002-09-25 | ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN $400: Last name of brothers Carl & Dennis who still give off "Good Vibrations" with the music they left behind Wilson |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: One "Behind the Music" covered this year in which the U.S. re-elected Nixon & tried to deport John Lennon 1972 |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: This '50s high school love story that's thrilled people since the '70s got its own episode Grease |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: "Behind the Music" noted the tragic irony when this activist "Cat's In The Cradle" singer died en route to a benefit concert Harry Chapin |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: One of the most poignant BTM episodes reunited this teen idol with his paralyzed friend Roland Winkler Leif Garrett |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This show that empowered women in the summer of '97 always closed with Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" Lilith Fair |
#3929, aired 2001-10-04 | HEAVY METAL $500: (Hi, I'm C.C. DeVille.) My band Samantha 7 debuted on the "Behind the Music" episode of this old band of mine Poison |
#3927, aired 2001-10-02 | MUSIC OF THE '70s $500: In 1973 he won a Grammy for Best Country Song for "Behind Closed Doors" Charlie Rich |
#3913, aired 2001-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: VH1 show about the rise, fall & comeback of Prof. Harold Hill, who sang about 76 trombones Behind the Music Man |
#3723, aired 2000-11-08 | WHAT'S ON CABLE? $100: "Behind the Music" VH1 |
#3295, aired 1998-12-25 | 10-DIFFERENT-LETTER WORDS $300: In a movie it's the kind of music heard behind a scene background (music) |
#2852, aired 1997-01-14 | FORMER CHILD STARS $1,000 (Daily Double): Former child star heard here in a 1962 movie musical; he now works behind the camera: Ron Howard (in The Music Man) |
#2344, aired 1994-11-10 | LANDMARKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Construction of this famous Italian tower began in 1174 & took almost 200 years to complete the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $500: Charlie Rich came out from behind closed door with this, his only #1 pop hit "The Most Beautiful Girl" |
#57, aired 1984-11-27 | LEGENDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Mythical creature Noah left behind in this Irish Rovers' song
"...green alligators and long-necked geese /
Some humpty-back camels and some chimpanzees /
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born..." a unicorn |
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