A Tricky Question

[Astro Dave]

We lost Carl Sagan 10 years ago this past week. Here’s a bit of a trivia and a puzzle. See who gets it right.

A 'Golden Record' was attached to the Voyager spacecraft which launched in 1977. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan.

115 images encoded in analog form and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, and thunder, and animal sounds, including the songs of birds and whales were on the record. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earthlings in fifty-five languages.

We tried this question on my radio program some time back and had people trying for the answer for two weeks, see how you go.

Q. What was the name of the classic, and extremely well known, 1950’s Rock and Roll song included on the record?

The prize is a weekend with Ray looking through his holiday slide collection!!??

[Robert TG]

That must Be a Good song to Chuck it on that record.

I often wonder if earthlings could understand what the diagrams meant. Aliens would have to be more advanced to figure them out. LOL.

[Radar]

The difficult thing about doing quiz's on the internet is not being tempted to use google.

I'm not sure what song it was, but with all that technology on
Voyager, you think they would have stuck a record player on the craft somewhere (with headphones).

Come on people, who wants to see my holiday snaps? I'll throw in a few family dinner snaps to? :blink:

[CanisMajorTom]

Come on people, who wants to see my holiday snaps? I'll throw in a few family dinner snaps to? :blink:

Pick me, pick me! :nana:

I have no idea what the song was and I won't google it because that would be cheating.

[Astro Dave]

Good on you Tom and Radar.

Robert is obviously good at things like this and might even have a friend named Johnny who would agree with him.

Anyway... think about that and remember, it is one of the best known songs of all time, even performed by Michael J. Fox when he came back from the past. (hint)

Time to chuck a steak on the barbie... Merry Xmas to all.

[Radar]

I'm going to crack this one no matter what.

It all comes down to how Goode I can be.:hmm:

[Astro Dave]

Gee... I just got a really bad thought.

Imagine if Radar gets the answer right and has to spend a whole weekend watching his own home movies of things like helicopters landing at Perth Airport and his dog fetching sticks.!!!

Can we allow this!!!!

[joe_smith]

Time to chuck a steak on the barbie

must be a chuck berry song

but you gave it away with the back to the future clue, the only 3 movies i watch once a month........... is it Johnny be good?

BTW chucks 81 in 2007

[Radar]

Have you been watching my home movies Dave? I kept the dog fetching sticks movie secret and it was going to be the surprise bonus prize.

Is Chuck still going Joe?

:pipethinker:

[Astro Dave]

Well done Joe. Yes, Johnny B. Goode is the answer. Radar digs it too.

By the way, on earlier cuts of the record Chuck sang "coloured boy" for "country boy" "(remember the line "...there lives a country boy named Johnny B Goode.").

The record label decided that that would not sell with that in so it was changed. Berry was also born on Goode Avenue in St. Louis.

Berry turned 80 in October. He was despised by most promoters over the years because of his radical demands on them - not to mention his hot temper! No-one liked to book him BUT they had to because of his popularity.

Ray, get the old super-8 movies out mate!

[Radar]

Ray, get the old super-8 movies out mate!

lol, here they come, a whole 47 hours worth! :nana: