Oldies Brain Busters!

[ Oldies Brain Busters! ]

This week's brain buster was called Oldies Telephony!

Each number in the coded message stood for one of the three or four letters on the push-button that corresponds to that number.

2 can represent either A, B or C
3 can represent either D, E or F
4 can represent either G, H or I
5 can represent either J, K, or L
6 can represent either M, N or O
7 can represent either P, Q, R or S
8 can represent either T. U, or V
9 can represent either W, X, Y or Z

Example:

653437 27246 2878377

Answer:

Oldies Brain Busters

As you can see a number can stand for different letters in the same puzzle.
For instance the number 6 stands for both the "O" in "Oldies" and the "N" in "Brain."

Three Top 40 charting songs were listed in telephone code. All three songs were hit singles by the same recording act.

For three points players needed only name the mystery act that charted with all three songs and not all three song titles.

Here are the answers:

song title #1:  67  8262687463   626 
 
answer: Mr. Tambourine Man



song title #2: 69  2225  72437 
 
answer: My Back Pages



song title #3: 8876  8876   8876

answer: Turn Turn Turn

These are all Top 40 hits by The Byrds!

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