Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Music Trivia: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Think you know music? Hit Parade, the pop-chart history podcast from Slate, is back with a new episode of The Bridge. In this monthly mini-episode of Hit Parade, host Chris Molanphy answers some listener mail and invites one contestant onto the show to play some music trivia. Players also have the opportunity to turn the tables on him: They get a chance to try to stump Molanphy, a music journalist for the past 25 years, with their own trivia question.
This month, The Bridge tackles the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and some some music trivia from the ‘00s.
Play along at home and quiz yourself by listening to the The Bridge here. If you’d like to be a contestant on an upcoming show, sign up for a Slate Plus membership, and then enter as a contestant here. You can also enter if you’re already a Slate Plus member.
Want your question featured in an upcoming show? Email hitparade@slate.com.
Podcast production by T. J. Raphael
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | Hey, everybody. This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Char History. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to The Bridge. |
| 0:11.7 | In popular music, The Bridge is a transition in the middle of a song. |
| 0:15.7 | It's the section that contrasts with the verse and the chorus and gets you from point A to point B. |
| 0:21.2 | We call these many episodes of Hit Parade The Bridge because they serve the same function. |
| 0:26.4 | It's also our little homage to James Brown, who, on his 1970 smash Get Up, I Feel Like Being |
| 0:32.0 | Being a Sex Machine, utters what is probably the most famous reference to the bridge of a song |
| 0:37.0 | ever. He literally takes you to the bridge of a song ever. |
| 0:37.9 | He literally takes you to the bridge. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm being joined at the mic today by T.J. Rafael, the senior producer of the Slate Podcast Network. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello, T.J. |
| 1:01.5 | Hey, Chris. |
| 1:02.1 | How are you? |
| 1:02.9 | I'm good. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:05.1 | Thank you very much for joining us. |
| 1:06.8 | So this is now our second episode of these mid-month mini episodes. |
| 1:12.0 | And this is our opportunity to respond to some listener mail we've received to talk about the prior episode, to give a little sneak preview of the next episode, and to do some trivia. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, we've gotten a lot of listener feedback about Bon Jovi. |
| 1:23.9 | Some not so happy that you hate him, but a lot really happy that you're not a fan. |
| 1:29.3 | I know. It feels like a lot of the feedback we got. It was almost like people were finally being given leave to say, I don't like Bon Jovi. I don't get it. |
| 1:38.3 | How would you characterize some of the questions we've been getting? One of the questions that we get really frequently that I see across episodes, |
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