Rock And Roll Music History

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________ Was the father of bluegrass

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Bill Monroe

Front 2

Robert Johnson was the “King of the __________ Delta Blues.”

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Mississippi

Front 3

Pete Johnson was the __________ pianist who recorded “Roll ‘em Pete” with Big Joe Turner.

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Boogie Woogie

Front 4

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys played ___________, a style of music popular in the American southwest.

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Country Swing

Front 5

Lionel Hampton was a popular artist in what style of dance music popular in the 1930s and 40s?

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Big Band Swing

Front 6

Bessie Smith sang __________, a popular style of blues that followed a 12 bar form and was accompanied by professional musicians?

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Classic Blues

Front 7

__________ was the “Father of Gospel Music”.

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Thomas Dorsey

Front 8

Rock and Roll draws from what styles of music?

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Bluegrass, Classic Blues, Country Swing, Delta Blues, Boogie Woogie, Big Band Swing, and Gospel

Front 9

Rock and Roll can be identified by what style characteristics?

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A driving backbeat, boogie bassline, lyrics about youth culture

Front 10

Bill Haley and His Comets gained national attention with __________, a #1 Rock and Roll recording featured in the movie, Blackboard Jungle.

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Rock Around the Clock

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Louie Jordan was a performer of ___________, a style of hard driving dance music.

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Jump Blues

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__________ popularized the electric guitar in R&B music.

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T-Bone Walker

Front 13

__________ was the Kansas City blues shouter who sang on the recording “Roll ‘em Pete”.

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Big Joe Turner

Front 14

AM radio disc jockeys chose to ignore mainstream white record labels and play small independent __________ labels instead.

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Rhythm and Blues (R&B)

Front 15

The four white disc jockeys of Nashville’s WLAC were known as __________.

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The 50,000 Watt Quartet

Front 16

Sun Records is located in the city of __________.

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Memphis

Front 17

__________ was the owner of Sun Records. He worked hard to record music by artists both black and white.

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Sam Phillips

Front 18

__________ is a frenzied mix of Country, Blues, Gospel and Pop.

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Rockabilly

Front 19

True or false? Elvis wrote most of his music.

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False

Front 20

__________ was known as the king of Rockabilly. Throughout his career, he stayed true to his style.

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Carl Perkins

Front 21

__________ was the artist known as “the killer” and Elvis’ rival?

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Jerry Lee Lewis

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J&M Records was located in the city of __________.

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New Orleans

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__________ was the owner of J&M Records.

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Cosimo Matassa

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Legendary New Orleans musician/producer __________ played a crucial role in the development of rock and roll at J&M Records with his collaborations with Fats Domino.

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Dave Bartholomew

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New Orleans is a major contributor to crossover R&B music through its emphasis on musical elements __________.

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Piano, sax, and bass

Front 26

Popular New Orleans artist __________ “offered white kids an easy first step into the world of black music.”

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Fats Domino

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New Orleans artist __________ was the direct opposite to the music of Fats Domino. He was a total extravert known as the “Bronze Liberace”.

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Little Richard

Front 28

Chess Records is located in the city of __________.

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Chicago

Front 29

__________ were the owners of Chicago blues record label Chess Records.

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Phil and Leonard Chess

Front 30

True or false? When the blues moved from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, it became amplified.

Back 30

True

Front 31

Popular artist __________ from Chess Records established rock and roll as a form in itself and established the guitar as THE rock instrument.

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Chuck Berry

Front 32

Bo Diddley is known for his use of the distinctive rhythm pattern called the ____________. This rhythm can be traced back to the “hambone” beats and the “ring shouts” of slavery.

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"Bo Diddley Beat"

Front 33

Popular rock and roll artist __________ from Chess records is known as the poet laureate of rock and broke through color barriers and played to integrated audiences.

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Chuck Berry

Front 34

The late 50’s were the transitional period between initial R&R and the teen idol period, the newcomers had a __________ image that helped broaden the appeal of rock and roll.

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Clean cut

Front 35

L.A. rockabilly artist __________ grew up in front of the nation as “Little Ricky” in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and put R&R music in America’s living room.

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Ricky Nelson

Front 36

__________ was the last of the 50’s rock and roll giants. He pointed the music toward the first rock band, popularized the Fender Stratocaster and was the first major white rock and roll artist to write/produce his own music.

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Buddy Holly

Front 37

Buddy Holly embraced rockabilly and imitated ______ as best he could.

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Elvis Presley

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Buddy Holly and _________ were the prototype for a self-contained rock band. Their two guitar, bass and drums combination set the standard for British Bands.

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The Crickets

Front 39

Eddie Cochran gained more fame in _________ than America. Cochran was a major influence on guitar players from ________ through his early development of the power chord sound.

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England

Front 40

Which two jazz/pop vocal groups from the 1930s and 40s inspired younger groups to a polished sound in a more R&B direction?

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The Mills Brothers and the Ink Spots

Front 41

Which two vocal groups were important early R&B Doo-wop transition groups?

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The Orioles and the Ravens

Front 42

The doo-wop style, which developed out of east coast settings, emphasized __________ above rhythm.

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Melody

Front 43

True or false? Few doo-wop groups managed to make it onto the charts or sustain careers, many groups became one hit wonders and the individuality of each artist was erased by the group.

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True

Front 44

Star groups of the time were The Platters, The Coasters and The Drifters. Of the three, _________ were one of the most successful crossover acts in the 1950’s.

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The Platters

Front 45

The Teenagers featured 13-year old singing artist __________. Their sound was closer to the street corner singing style. Their biggest hit was “Why Do Fools Fall in Love.”

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Frankie Lymon

Front 46

The influence of ________ music was a key element of soul.

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Gospel

Front 47

___________ was not really R&R music; instead he drew from the entire spectrum of music and ignited R&B with the impassioned testifying of a southern Holy Roller revival meeting.

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Ray Charles

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___________ was very different from Ray Charles in that he was known as the graceful voice in soul music. His voice had a more floating quality compared to Charles.

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Sam Cooke

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___________’s sweeping register leaps, rich vibrato, and falsetto breaks were his trademarks. ________, a former gymnast and boxer, was an energetic and agile showman.

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Jackie Wilson

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Known as the “Godfather of Soul”, __________ had incredible stage show productions.

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James Brown

Front 51

James Brown’s unique sound featuring highly syncopated rhythms using the choked chord guitar sound and broken bass lines was the early influence for ________ music.

Back 51

Funk

Front 52

What tragic event that happened on February 3, 1959 is considered a turning point for R&R?

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Buddy Holly died

Front 53

The most successful teen idol was _________.

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Bobby Vinton

Front 54

As the country turned to Top 40 formats in the early 1960s, __________ in New York City was the center of all of the hit songwriting.

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The Brill Building

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The Brill building housed __________ Publishing, the symbol for popular music in New York.

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Aldon,

Front 56

Of the songwriters, who were usually grouped in pairs, __________ and __________ were the most prolific hitmakers at Aldon Music due to their variety and ability to change with the times.

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Gerry Goffin and Carole King

Front 57

The engine of the teen idol machine was the Philadelphia television show (later to become national) ______________, hosted by Dick Clark.

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The American Bandstand

Front 58

The term __________ is used to describe the bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records?

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Payola

Front 59

The Coasters and The Drifters were Neo-Doo-Wop groups from the early 1960s. Both groups were affiliated with _____________.

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Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Front 60

Leiber & Stoller paved the way for the Brill Building writers and Phil Spector productions and were the first _______ writers to compose authentic R&B.

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White/European-American

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__________ were known for their use of Playlets, short mini-dramas acted out in a 2-3 minute song

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The Coasters

Front 62

With Neo-Doo-Wop group ___________, Leiber & Stoller developed a high-tech production style referred to as “Uptown R&B”.

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The Drifters

Front 63

The music of the girl groups often had an underlying current of __________ behind the innocence. Males were idealized images of adolescent romanticism.

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Sexuality

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Girl groups were about __________ rather than an individual voice or image and were linked to a producer who often projected HIS vision rather than the group’s vision.

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A sound and style

Front 65

__________ were an important model for the girl groups that followed.

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The Chantels

Front 66

White Girl Groups like ___________ and The Shangri-Las, lacked the gospel-derived emotion of the black groups and relied heavily on melodramatic spoken interludes; the brazen tough girls were a challenge to the sugary girl group image.

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The Angels

Front 67

Phil Spector invented the role of the modern producer. Spector’s __________ featured the use of many instruments. Spector called his grand pop records “Little symphonies for kids”.

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"Wall of Sound"

Front 68

Phil Spector’s large list of Los Angeles studio musicians, which he used to back his artists, became known as ___________.

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The "Wrecking Crew"

Front 69

Girl group ___________ inspired Phil Spector’s best work and became the “Bad girls of pop”.

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The Ronettes

Front 70

The male duo, ____________ , were Phil Spector’s last great success and came around the time of the arrival of the Beatles and the decline of the Girl Groups.

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The Righteous Brothers

Front 71

Early instrumental rock artist _________ developed a style known as “twangy” guitar and formed the model for surf band guitarists that followed.

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Duane Eddy

Front 72

Surf music was primarily an instrumental style of the 1960s. Surf music reestablished the _______’s role as a central instrument in rock and roll since it had virtually disappeared as lead instrument in early 60’s pop.

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The Guitar

Front 73

Instrumental surf group ___________ solidified the two guitar / bass / drum line-up for rock and roll bands and became a favorite with the surf crowd.

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The Ventures

Front 74

__________ was the king of the surf guitar.

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Dick Dale

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__________ was a simple, raw form of rock & roll inspired by British Invasion bands and was the first wave of do-it-yourself punk rockers.

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Garage Rock

Front 76

U.S. Congress had a full-scale investigation to find out what smut was in the song ___________ and the FBI declared it “incomprehensible at any speed”.

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Louie Louie

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California band ___________ painted a landscape of beach, paradise, hot rods and California girls and were America’s answer to the Beatles.

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The Beach Boys

Front 78

The style of the Beach Boys is a combination of the jazz vocal harmonies of ___________ and instrumental surf music.

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The Four Freshmen

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__________ was the quiet genius of the Beach Boys who was influenced by Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound”.

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Brian Wilson

Front 80

Critically considered a masterpiece and one of rock and roll’s important albums, __________ became Brian Wilson’s master project in 1966. It was fueled by the Beatles album Rubber Soul and in turn became a major influence on the Beatles’ with their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Pet Sounds

Front 81

The Beach Boys hit song ___________ was labeled as a psychedelic tune and was Wilson's finest hour as a producer.

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Good Vibrations