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45 Cards in this Set
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Inventor and year of phonograph
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Edison, 1877
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Type of recording done by phonograph
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acoustic recording
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Jesse Lippincott
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Uses inheritance to buy Edison patents and form North American Phonograph Company, dies early 1890s
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Two franchises of North American Phonograph Company
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Columbia Phonograph Company (managed by Easton) and Pacific Phonograph Company (managed by Glass)
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Louis Glass
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Father of the Jukebox (1889)
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Leading producer of cylinder recordings
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Columbia Phonograph Company
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John Yorke Atlee
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Famous whistler on cylinders ("The Mockingbird", "Home Sweet Home")
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George Washington Jackson
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Most successful black recording artist of his time. ("The Laughing Song", "The Whistling Coon") (Recording Company: Edison)
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Emile Berliner
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Invented wax-coated zinc discs and gramophone (developed 1987, patented 1896)
Prophesized ability to make copies from a single mastger, mass use of discs for home entertainment, system of royalty payments to artists |
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Fred Gaisburg
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Partenered with Emile Berliner - first artist & repertoire (A&R) man in the industry.
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Victor Talking Machine Company
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Started by Berliner and Johnson (manufacturer) in 1901. Lil Nipper is mascot.
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Ada Jones
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"First Lady of Phonograph Records"
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George M. Cohan
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TPA writer, "Give My Regards to Broadway" (1904), "Over There" (1917)
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Irving Berlin
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TPA writer, Jewish-American, most successful songwriter in history before Paul McCartney. Called "Father of Ragtime". ("Alexander's Ragtime Band" 1911, "God Bless America" 1939)
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Ragtime
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Syncopated African American piano music with structural ties to European marches. Developed from Cakewalk (blacks imitating whites imitating blacks)
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Scott Joplin
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African American pianist and composer, most famous ragtime musician. "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899)
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W.C. Handy
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Called "Father of the Blues". ("St. Louis Blues", "Beale Street Blues", etc.)
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George Gershwin
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TPA songwriter with closest ties to actual jazz. "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924), "Summertime" (1935)
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Copyright laws changed to include royalties for recorded music in this year.
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1909. The fees were called "mechanicals".
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Printer's Union Strike was in this year
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1919
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Bill Haley
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First to combine R&B with C&W. Had a variety of influences, but he was signed to a major label (Decca), and "Rock around the Clock" (1954) was writted by TPA writers
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Sam Philips
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Founded Sun Records (Memphis, 1952)
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Rockabilly
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Elvis Presley and other Sun artists who followed - combination of rocking African American and Hillbilly styles
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Sides Elvis recorded for Sun Records
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"That's All Right" / "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (1954)
"Good Rockin' Tonight" / "I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine" (1954) "Milkcow Blues Boogie" / "You're a Heartbreaker" (1955) "Baby Let's Play House" / "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (1955) "Mystery Train" / "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" (1955) |
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Elvis song recorded 1956
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Hound Dog (analyzed in text) by Lieber and Stoller
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Elvis' army stint
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1958-1960
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Wrote Elvis hits: "Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock" and "Don't"
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Lieber and Stoller
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Wrote Elvis hits: "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" (1957)
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Otis Blackwell
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"My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin"
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The two songs recorded by Elvis at Memphis recording studio in 1953.
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Sun's most notable artists
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Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis
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These two labels had the best luck with covers in the '50s
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Decca and Mercury
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Dot Records
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Launched in 1951 in Tenessee by Randy Wood.
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Harry Belafonte
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Signed to RCA in 1955, Calypso recorded in 1956. "Banana Boat" (Day-O).
Becomes leading civil rights activist. |
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Schlock Rock Teen Idols
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Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Freddy Cannon, Bobby Darin, Annette Funicello, Neil Sadaka
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Chubby Checker
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"The Twist" (1960)
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Little Eva
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"The Locomotion"
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Dee Dee Sharp
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"Mashed Potato Time"
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American Bandstand
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Began in 1952 in Philadelphia, hosted by Dick Clark (renamed in 1957; was originally Bandstand)
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Year the NAB boycotts ASCAP
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1941. They created BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) as a competing performing rights organization.
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First record company to send their recordings free to disc jockeys
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Capitol
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Year AFM goes on strike
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1942.
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Ella Fitzgerald
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First song "A Tisket a Tasket" (1938)
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Columbus Day Riot
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For Frank Sinatra, 1942
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"I Only Have Eyes for You"
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The Flamingos
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Al Hopkins
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Termed "Hillbilly" music
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