QUIZ: Who is the ALL FEMALE group with the most charted hit songs EVER!!!

[old mark]

They have held this record since 1988 according to Guiness....It's -
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BANANARAMA!!!!!

Link to Wiki article on record holding hit makers Bananarama;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananarama

Who knew....not me.

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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Weren't some of them once in a band with the members of fun boy 3?

[Symarip]

2. I don't see how that's possible

Slightly off topic - nothing depresses me more than thinking about The Funboy 3. Just what the fuck were they thinking?

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Then what am I thinking of...what band did THEY come from?

And yes, WWTT?

[RainDog]

5. bananarama and funboy 3 were creations of McLauren, iirc

so they were connected in that way.

too bad I didn't keep all my old copies of The Face magazine.

[Symarip]

12. I don't think McLauren had much to do with The Fun Boy 3.

In their case, they might have benefited from his help. God, how could you go from The Specials to, to, to... THAT?!

[RoyGBiv]

20. They had some co-releases ...

Don't ask me how or why I know this, but they have several top-40 hits together in the Netherlands.

[old mark]

4. Some of them were in some other groups, but I don't know much about

Funboy3...
They were called The Nipple Erectors or something else famous like that...
Their biggest song that I recall was a lame remake of
"Venus" with'80's dance drums...


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[Symarip]

11. The Nipple Erectors were (loosely) the precursor to The Pogues

The Specials were the precursor to The Fun Boy 3.

[old mark]

14. I have heard The Specials play, but I have no idea what tthe others are like at all...nt

[Symarip]

18. The Pogues are pretty amazing

A seriously traditional Irish band, from England, in a time when 2 guys on synthesizers was considered a band. If you like real instruments, and Irish music, you'll love The Pogues.

The Nips (Nipple Erectors) are meh.

I love The Specials.

Fun Boy 3 are forgettable.

[Dr. Strange]

19. How the hell did I make it this far in life without knowing about a group called...

"The Nipple Erectors"?

[Symarip]

23. Welcome to a new world, my friend

[old mark]

24. You and me both, brother....nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Ah, fun boy 3 came from the Specials...and did some work with bananarama.

wikipedia.org:

They were also credited with helping launch the career in 1982 of Bananarama, whom Hall first saw in The Face magazine. The three women provided credited chorus vocals on the hit "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)"; the Fun Boy Three later sang on the Bananarama song "Really Saying Something".

[Dr Morbius]

6. I would have guessed the Supremes.

Go figure.

[Forkboy]

7. That was my guess, too.

[fishwax]

21. me too n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

26. me 4

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. 5

[Tikki]

9. Did they play their own guitars, pianos, drums..etc!!!

write their own music!?

The were a front group, at best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RTipAZuMRI
Runaways

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8UJUo5XjY
Go Gos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQ76vqwYMk
Bangles


Tikki

[old mark]

16. I don't recall much other than synths, bass and electric drum sounds and

I don't know that they really play any thing.

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[gmoney]

32. Yeah, based on that I would have guessed the Go-Gos (also a Fun Boy 3 connection)

Terry Hall co-wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Jane Weidlen

[Captain Hilts]

10. For a while the Supremes were 3rd behind Elvis and the Beatles. nt

[LisaM]

13. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I love "Cruel Summer"

and could listen to it over and over.

[old mark]

15. I just heard it today - I swear I never heard it before, ever...

that is what brought on this whole post...


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[Phentex]

22. I just heard it yesterday...

is Sirius repeating? :)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. Maybe "the most charted hit songs" GLOBALLY, but...

...in the U.S., other than "Cruel Summer" and their half-assed, going-through-the-motions cover of "Venus," did they really have that much success?

[maxsolomon]

25. no, Guiness is probs talking about England

FB3 produced Bananarama, probably did the music, too.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. Those are the only two songs by them I can even name.

[hippywife]

29. See, now I would have guessed

the Supremes. Bananarama? I just can't see it. :hi:

[TK421]

30. I was going to guess Heart

[carlyhippy]

31. It wasn't the Runaways?!?!

I can only think of a couple of Bananarama songs

[Capn Sunshine]

33. Know what I always liked about Bananaramamamama?

Really, Really intelligent. Negotiated and Did their own contracts, no kidding.

[femmocrat]

34. I would have guess The Supremes!

:shrug: