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50 Cards in this Set
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Which two Broadway musical songwriters are credited with integrating songs, dialogue, and dance together to create a non-stop storyline, the integrated musical?
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Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstien
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Which format (1948) became the major record label's primary format to sell musical soundtracks?
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33-1/3 RPM (LP)
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What composer is best known for film and TV scores like Peter Gun and the Pink Panther, he won 4 Oscars and 20 Grammys.
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Henry Mancini
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What influential jazz musician's vocal style was the most prominent inspiration for the singing style of Bing Crosby?
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Louis Armstrong
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What singer first popularized the use of the microphone at close proximity, creating a new vocal sound?
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Bing Crosby
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What pop singer starred in hit movies, had a #1 radio show in 1947, helped the recording industry shift to magnetic tape and sold over 400 million records before 1959?
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Bing Crosby
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Which pop singer left a swing band in 1942, performed for a month at Paramount Theater in Manhattan, and racked up 33 top ten hits between 1943 and 1952?
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Frank Sinatra
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True or False: Both Crosby and Sinatra began their careers as singers featured in famous swing bands
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True
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What is the biggest selling song recording in U.S. chart history?
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White Christmas
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Who was known as the King of Mambo in the 50's and has one of the top selling instrumentals of all time, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White?
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Perez Prado
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What Cuban born bandleader popularized the Conga and along with Lucille Ball founded Desilu Studios?
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Desi Arnez
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List Cuban dance crazes in the correct chronological order
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Rumba, Conga, Mambo
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What was the name of the US major label system that paid artists a salary and had total control over what the acts performed and how they were promoted?
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artist stable
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Why did Decca UK split from Decca US?
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Decca UK began developing radar for the Allies
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What company was the result of Phillips buying the Dutch record company Phonogram?
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PolyGram
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What was the name of the U.S. touring route that matched up black artists (as well as movies) with nightclubs and movie houses?
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Chitlin Circuit
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With the help of Billboard magazine in 1948, what was the new descriptive term for black popular music, replacing the label race records?
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Rhythm and blues
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Who introduced boogie woogie to the public at large though a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall, called From Spirituals to Swing?
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John Hammond
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Who was the Kansas City R&B shouter dating back to the 30's who helped break boogie-woogie and later sang the early rock and roll anthem, Shake Rattle and Roll?
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Big Joe Turner
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What black piano style,coming out of the south, became a driving force in rhythm and blues, and later rock and roll?
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barrel house
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Who is most often credited as the Father of R&B, who first took the jump band to fame through Decca Records?
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Louis Jordan
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From whose swing band did Louis Jordan emerge to form his jump blues combo?
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Chick Webb
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Who determines when a song is a crossover?
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The buying public
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What does LP stand for?
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Long play
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What did Les Paul call his process of adding one live layer to a recorded layer (from acetate and later tape) eventually building an entire arrangement over time?
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sound on sound
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About when did magnetic tape replace wax as the primary high quality recording medium?
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1950
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What is an acetate?
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A playing disc consisting of a base metal, could be played back immediately, used as a test record
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How much time could fit on a side of the 45rpm 7-inch single?
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4 minutes
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How much time could fit on a side of the 33 1/3 rpm 12-inch LP?
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20 minutes
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What new policies came about regarding the selection of music for radio in 1947-1948 that marked the beginning of rock and roll, and the short reign of the radio DeeJay?
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The radio replaces the live stage as the source where most people heard their music.
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How did the demographic of the record buyer change when white audiences began buying large amounts of R&B and rock and roll?
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It changed from adults to teens
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Who first manufactured and later controlled much of the jukebox machine business from the 1930's and onward?
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the mafia
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What was payola?
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paying a dj to play songs on the radio
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True or False: Until recent decades, musicians that were on small labels made most of their money "working" at shows, not from record proceeds.
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True
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In 1947, two sons of a Turkish ambassador, Ahmet and Neshui Ertegun (along with Herb Abramson) started a classic R&B, jazz, blues and rock record label called?
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Atlantic
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Which Atlantic Records employee convinced the label's executives to adopt recording to tape, recording in stereo, and using 8 track tape machines as soon as the technology was made available in the 50's.
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Tom Dowd
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Who applied the term Rock and Roll to describe the music in 1951, to avoid the term Rhythm and Blues?
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Alan Freed
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What was the name of Alan Freed's famous teen radio show broadcast out of Cleveland Ohio?
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Moondog show
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How many tracks were considered the high standard in the large studios during the 50's.
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2 or 3
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British EMI bought what successful American 1940's jazz pop label in 1955?
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Capitol Records
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During which 5 year period did doowop music reach its peak airwave saturation in the US?
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1955-1959
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True or False: DooWop was the bread and butter of most independent record labels during the 50's. These labels sold most of this talent locally.
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True
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Who are credited as being R&B then rock songwriters who became the music business's first independent producers, later spawning the Sweet Soul style?
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Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
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in the 50's, how did a cover song and a remake differ?
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Covers compete with the original song
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Who originally sang Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog?
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Big Mamma Thorton
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Who did the most to make the electric guitar the most important ingredient of rock and roll?
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Chuck Berry
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What did Bo diddley do on the Guitar that imposed a new vitality to the instrument?
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He played it how a drummer plays the drums
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Which Chicago record label was responsible for making both Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry hit artists?
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Chess
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After Elvis Presley, who was the second best-selling U.S. recording artist of the late 50's?
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Pat Boone
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On what record label did Ray Charles first find his voice, a sound that was later called soul?
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Atlantic
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