Contuinuous Quiz - Music

[davidmfay]

If you'll pardon the pun John you're BANG on! It is the extended disco version of that classic number by the late Donna Summer. It's all yours John...

[johnwilson]

Ta

Whose debut album was originally called "Offering", before being renamed "Ticket To Ride" after the most famous song on it?

[RobJones]

Carpenters?

[johnwilson]

Correct. Over to Rob

[RobJones]

Thanks John.

Which long-running US band has, in recent years, released a series of educational albums aimed at kids, taking in the alphabet, numbers and science?

[RobJones]

Some clues:

This band's biggest UK hit single was in 1990. They had a lesser hit circa 2001, with the theme tune from a TV show.

For a long time, they were a duo, but are now a five-piece.

[ozzo2k]

think we might need more of a clue

[dxdtdemon]

2001 sounds about right for the beginning of Malcolm in the Middle, and the alphabet song sounds like it could be the ABCs of the World, so I'm thinking the group you're looking for is They Might be Giants.

[RobJones]

And you are certainly right, it is They Might Be Giants.

[dxdtdemon]

In what 2006 music video does Donnie Osmond dance in front of an incorrect equation that needed an h-bar where the h was?