Music Unit Exam-3//chp 8

Front 1

Which disc jockey was probably first to use the term “rock 'n' roll” for commercial and generational purposes?

Back 1

Alan Freed.

Front 2

Which artist recorded the original version of “Shake Rattle and Roll?”

Back 2

Big Joe Turner

Front 3

Which vocal ensemble recorded a cover version of “Sh-Boom” that featured two false endings and a humorous kettledrum stroke?

Back 3

The Crew Cuts.

Front 4

Which of the following is true about Bill Haley's “Rock around the Clock?”

Back 4

It was the first rock 'n' roll record to become a number one pop hit.

Front 5

Which song by Chuck Berry is distantly modeled on the country song “Ida Red” and describes a lovers' quarrel in the form of a car chase?

Back 5

“Maybellene”

Front 6

Which songwriting team composed the musicalOklahoma!, which opened in 1943?

Back 6

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Front 7

Which rock 'n' roll performer originally named Richard Wayne Penniman hit the pop charts in 1956 with his wild performance of the nonsensical song “Tutti-Frutti?”

Back 7

Little Richard

Front 8

Which pianist, organist, and bandleader recorded “Mambo No. 5” and did the most to popularize the mambo throughout Latin America and in the United States?

Back 8

Damaso Perez Prado

Front 9

Which rock 'n' roll pianist was the second best-selling artist of the 1950s and known for a style rooted in musical traditions from New Orleans?

Back 9

Fats Domino.

Front 10

Which artist had his biggest hit with the song “Don't Be Cruel?”

Back 10

Elvis Presley

Front 11

Which clean-cut, lanky, bespectacled man began his career in country music and later formed a rock ’n’ roll band called the Crickets?

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Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holly)

Front 12

Which remarkable female rock ’n’ roll pioneer recorded fierce songs like “Fujiyama Mama” and embraced the implicit interracial character of rock ’n’ roll to the explicit extent of touring with an integrated band?

Back 12

Wanda Jackson

Front 13

1. Which performer known as “Little Miss Dynamite” recorded engaging rock ’n’ roll songs like “Sweet Nothin’s”’?
2.

Back 13

Brenda Lee

Front 14

Which Mexican American musician recorded the songs “La Bamba” and “Donna?”

Back 14

Ritchie Valens

Front 15

Which song written by Lieber and Stoller and recorded by the Coasters portrays a class clown and features King Curtis’s “yackety sax” sound?

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Charlie Brown

Front 16

Verses

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Musical structures typically using varying lyrics, with unvarying (or very similar) melodic and harmonic material occurring multiple times during a song.

Front 17

Slap-back

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The distinctive, “wet” sound environment used in Elvis Presley’s early recordings with Sun Records.

Front 18

Reverb

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An electronic echo effect used in music.

Front 19

Release

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A change in the pattern of a piece of a music providing the listener with some variation

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Producer

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Person responsible for the finances of a recording project who often intervenes in the recording process.

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Payola

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Illegal payments made to DJs (usually by independent record companies) to put certain records in heavy rotation

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Chorus:

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A contrasting musical section consisting of a fixed melody and lyric, repeated exactly each time around.

Front 23

Blue notes:

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“Bent” or “flattened” tones lying outside traditional European-based scale structures that reflect particular African American melodic characteristics.

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A&R

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“Artists and repertoire” man. The person responsible for finding and signing new talent to a record company

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Record Producers

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Responsible for booking time in recording studios, hiring backup singers, assist with engineering process

Front 26

Alan Freed

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DJ. First to use term "rock n roll." Played black music. Sponsored a tv show that got canceled; black teen danced with white girl. Arrested after a fight broke out at his rock n roll concert in boston. Black ballad, died a broken man. Prosecuted for accepting Payola.

Front 27

Rock n' Roll

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A term usually used to describe the popular teen-oriented music of the 1950s to the early 1960s. As opposed to the more consciously artistic "rock" that developed from the mid-1960s on

Front 28

Rockabilly

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A vigorous form of country and western music informed by the rhythms of black R&B and electric blues. Carl Perkins and young Elvis Presley

Front 29

Double-tracking (multi-tracking)

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A method used in sound recording that allows for several different parts to be recorded separately and then layered over one another in playback. This technique is also know as overdubbing

Front 30

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

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First movie to feature rock and roll; Bill Haley's "Rock around the Clock" (1954); song caused dancing in the aisles, rioting in theatres

Front 31

What event made elvis presley popular

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Appearance in a variety of tv shows 1956

Front 32

Piano artist what is the style most influence

Back 32

Boogie Woogie

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o

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o