Music Trivia: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Edition

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

Slate Podcasts

Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K 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 [email protected]. Podcast production by T. J. Raphael Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Chris Malanfi host of hit parade slates podcast of pop chart history
0:05.8	welcome to the bridge in popular music the bridge is a transition in the middle of a song
0:11.6	it's the section that contrasts with the verse and
0:14.5	the chorus and gets you from point A to point B. We call these mini episodes of
0:19.4	hit parade, the bridge, because they serve the same function. It's also our little homage to James Brown who, on his 1970 Smash Get Up, I feel like being a sex machine,
0:30.0	utters what is probably the most famous reference to the bridge of a song ever.
0:34.0	He literally takes you to the bridge.
0:37.0	Get up, get on up.
0:38.0	Get up, get on up.
0:40.0	Bobby.
0:41.0	Should I take him to the bridge. Go ahead. Take him on to the bridge. Bobby. Should I take them to the bridge.
0:43.0	Go ahead.
0:44.0	Take them on to the bridge.
0:45.0	Take them to the bridge.
0:46.0	Take them to the bridge.
0:48.0	Take them to the bridge.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	I'm being joined at the mic today by T.J. Raphael, the senior producer of the Slate Podcast Network.
0:57.0	Hello, TJ.
0:58.0	Hey Chris, how are you?
0:59.0	I'm good.
1:00.0	I'm so excited to be here.
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