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72 Cards in this Set
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When was Doggie in the Window released? Who performed? |
Jan 1953 Patty Page (Merril) |
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More about Doggie in the Window? |
pop #1 sold 2 mil copies got attention of the older generation |
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Era of cover versions |
1954-1956 |
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Two people that played Tutti Fruitti and when? |
little Richard 1955 Pat Boone 1956 |
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When was Little Richard born? Where was he born? |
1932 Macon, Georgia |
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What record company was Little Richard signed to? |
Specialiy Recoreds |
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Who revised the lyrics for tutti Frutti |
Dorothy LaBostrie |
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What was dif in the charts b/w little richard and pat boone's record |
Little richards was a cross over hit, RnB and pop Pat boones was just pop |
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Song Sh-Boom... who were the two artists to do it and when? |
The Chords in June 1954 The Crew Cuts in July 1954 |
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What record company were the chords signed to? |
Cat records |
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What record company were the crew cuts signed to? |
mercury recrods |
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The charts for both the chords and the crew cuts |
The chords had a crossover hit, 3 in RnB and 5 in pop Crew cuts were #1 in pop The Crew cuts version was so successful it basically wiped The chords from history |
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When did cover version stop making money? |
1956 |
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What was Bill Haley born? |
1925 |
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What was Bill haley's band called? (2) |
Billy Haley and the Saddlemen Billy haley and the comets |
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What were Billy Haley and the comets big hits? |
Crazy man, Crazy Shake, Rattle, Roll Rock Around the Clock |
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When did Rock around the Clock come out? What was it's musical style? |
1954 12 bar blues |
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What movie was rock around the clock featured in and when was it released? |
"Blackboard jungle" 1954 |
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Elvis birth and death year? |
1935-1977 |
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Where was Elvis born? |
Tupelo Mississippi |
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Who was Elvis Presley signed to at first? |
Sam Phillips - Sun Records |
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Who worked at Sun Records? (instrument wise in the spring of 1954) |
Scotty Moore (guitar) and Bill Black (bass) |
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Why didn't they have a drummer for Elvis at Sun Records? |
He was white... he was going to perform country/western music |
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ELVIS NEVER........ |
wrote a song. |
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2 big sons from July 1954 from Elvis? |
Thats alright Momma Blue Moon of Kentucky |
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Who exposed Elvis' high school on radio? |
Dewey Phillips |
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What was Elvis' nickname? |
The Hillbilly cat |
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In 1955 Sam Phillips decided he had to sell Elvis. To who and for how much? |
Colonel Tom Parker purchased him for $35,000 |
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What did Sam Phillips do with the money he got from Elvis? |
started other musicians careers... like Johnny Cash |
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What did Colonel Tom Parker do specifically that made Elvis get crazy famous? |
Got him on TV 11 times in 1 year! 3 stations |
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Big song April-May 1956 Charts |
Heartbreak Hotel #1pop/country, #5 RnB |
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August to December 1956 songs? |
Hound dog Don't be cruel Love me Tender all #1 in pop |
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Where did Elvis perform and get some contriversy? |
Texaco Star Theatre Milton Berle the talk show host told Elvis to leave the guitar behind...he wigled his legs and stuf and got tons of controversy |
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Where did he perform next? what did they do to him in this performance? |
He stood very still, the filmed him from the waist up incase he danced around again |
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Elvis __________ charter RnB in 1957 because of who? |
stopped charting Cuz of Col. Tom Parker - he restrained elvis |
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When did Elvis enter the army? |
1958-60 he had to go to Germany to stop Germans incase of WWIII |
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What is special about hte date March 1961? |
Elvis' last public performance for 7 years |
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1968.... |
The comeback special he came out for 10 mins and played his songs from 1954-56 |
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What was elvis doing from 1970-77... eventually this lead to..... |
He was performing in vegas.. became very withdraw and started loving drugs... eventually this lead to his death on Aug 16 1977 |
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Where was Chuck Berry born? |
St. Louis |
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Talk about him for a quick second... upbring and such |
he performed in music competitions.. he didn't reallly wanna be a musician for the music aspect but was out there to make money? |
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Who signed Chuck Berry? |
Chess records |
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Chuck Berry song from July 1955? |
Maybelline |
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What was special about Maybelline? |
first song that launches him into Rock and Roll Introduced the Chuck Berry themes... cars girls and partying |
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What snog did he release in 1958? |
Johnny B. Good |
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What style was Johnny b good? Other interesting things |
12 bar blues with heavy narritive #2 in RnB and #8 in pop |
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When was the Golden age of rock and roll |
1954-59 |
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What is Payola Hearings? |
This was the bribery in music at the time, Alal Freed lost his job because he was taking bribes ... all his property was taken and he would die some 3 years later |
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pop top 10 in 1955 vs 1959? |
top 10 in 55: 15% rock and roll top 10 in 59:45% rock and roll |
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What happened in May 1954 |
This was the case of Brown sv The Board of Education |
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Discuss Rosa parks and when it happened? |
December 1955 She never actually sat at the front of the bus She sat behind the sign on teh bus and a guy yelled at her to move because there was a seat open next to her and he didn't want to sit beside her... she said no After this the black people in Alabama didn't ride the bus for a year Bus company got embarressed by the end of 1956 and the signs came down |
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What were the Lunch Counter Sit ins/freedom riders |
Freedom Riders These were whites and blacks that sat beside each other while going across state lines to prove a point They were dragged out and beaten |
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What was the lunch counter sit ins? |
There were signs that said whites only... there would be long lines of black people outside these establishments. They would wait there all day to show a message.. peole behind the counter treated them with disrespect. Eventually the signs came down |
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What was the dislike of rock and roll linked to? |
middle class whites fears of the growing strength of Civil rights movements |
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What was the great extinction? |
all of the artists being taken out of the golden age |
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October 1957 |
Little Richard was torn... he feared he was doing the devils work, was bisexual, stpped making music ot become a minister |
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May 1958? |
Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin... career plummeted |
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March 1958 |
Elvis joined the army |
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December 1959 |
Chuck Berry arersted under the Mann act? |
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What made chuck berry the most money? |
"My dingaling" |
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February 1959 |
Buddy Holly was on tour... died in a plane crash, related to the song American pie |
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The inbetween years... there was a dance craze what was this? |
lyrics desribed dance moves... "The locomotion |
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Song by Bobby Vinton in 1963 |
Blue Velvet |
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What else about Blue Velvet |
composed in 1950... hit for Tony bennet in 1951 Song was written for new teen demographic - romantic, non sexualized, love and dancing |
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Rise of the producer? |
the producer would know how to get any sound out of any instrument |
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who changed the producuer? |
Bing Crosby |
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Who did Bing Crosby give reel to reel tape to? |
Les Paul |
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Les paul birth and death eyar? |
1915-2009 |
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What was les Paul known for? 1941 1952 |
1941 the log guitar 1952 the Gibson Les Paul Guitar featured in Rhianna shut up and drive |
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The inbetween years were improtant for what specifically in terms of production |
responsible for a differnt process of recording. Instead of going in and recording all at once they started multi track recrding |
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who built the "wall of sound" |
Phil spector by layering instruments |
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Song by Barry, Greenwich, and Spector |
The Ronettes "Be my Baby" |
