Hello and welcome back for another episode of Norm Nathan’s Vault of Silliness. Today brings us aa show I’ve titled: “Time for a Name Change.”

Why? Because this was before Ed Mullen filed formal papers with legal to change the name to The Swell Music Quiz. For this one it was called:

The Dumb Music Trivia Quiz Game.

Ric Duarte was producing.

There were only TWO categories on this early incarnation of the SMQ:

Rock n Roll and Big Bands

But later, Darrell Gould joins in with Doo Wop!

So the The Panel consisted of:

Norm, Ed, Darrell, Jack Harte and much later, I grace the broadcast booth with my presence because I was working some bizarro shift WBZ created when they shifted hours around. There was a 3 hour shift M-F that ran 2-5am. Yeah, try to get up for that one if you fell asleep at home.

Did that sound like I was speaking from experience? Maybe.

Of course we begin with Ed explaining the rules and then it’s on the callers:

Fred from Medford

Sean in Cambridge

May in Boston!

Bill from Chelsea

Brian from Newton

Arlene in Braintree

Kevin from Providence, RI

Oakley from Falmouth

Joe in Malden

Derek in his car…nope, it’s Rick

Jim from Somerville

John from Hornell, NY

Ken in Randolph

Joe in Waltham

The prophetic Harry from Milford

Steve in Brockton

Jodie from NY

Beth in Michigan

Randy from Norton

Jerry in Quincy

Jonathan from Salem

Sean in Chelsea

Joe from Chelsea

Phil in Newton

Joe from Brookline

Geri in Clinton

Kathy from Quincy

John in Natick

Mike in Swampscott

David from Chelmsford

Andrew in Boston

Kevin in Malden

Geri from Clinton…wait. Again?

Warren on the Mass Pike

Bob in Fitchburg

And Rob from Needham

Ep 172, Time for a Name Change, hums its way to your ears, now.

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