Musical Chairs (2)

Musical Chairs was a daytime game show produced by Don Kirschner and Jerome Schnur in 1975 for CBS.

Host
Adam Wade

Announcer
Pat Hernon

Gameplay
Four contestants competed in three rounds. In each round, either host Wade or a guest vocalist performed a song. When the song stopped, Wade asked the contestants which of three choices was the next line of the song.

In the first round, the first three players that rang in with correct answers (their lecterns would light up in front with the letters A, B or C, corresponding to their answers) received $50. In the second round, the first two players that answered correctly received $75, and in the third round, the first player that answered correctly won $100. The third round was also when the low-scoring player was eliminated after each question by having his "chair" (and desk) removed from the game via a breakaway wall (which would be used later on MTV’s Remote Control). The high scorer at the end of the third round was the day’s champion.

Musical Chairs had several different bonus rounds during its short run (June 16 to October 31), according to the imperfect memories of the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows:

The first had players matching the first line of a song with the second line on a board, with a 60-second time limit. For a while after that, the winning contestant in the main game just had his total winnings doubled, with no true end game. About a month before the end of the run, a new end game was added: Champions chose one of three categories, heard the melody of a song, and then had to arrange 10 lyrics to the song in order on a board within 30 seconds. The payoff was $100 per correct answer and $2,000 for all 10.