Tcu Jazz Final

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Roy Acuff

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Folk Gospel Style
Grand Ole Opry Star in the 30s
Big Hit "Grey Speckled Bird"

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Gene Autry

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Cowboy Singer and movie star

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Sons of Pioneers

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Country singing group started by Roy Rogers

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Bob Wills

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Started the western swing movement
Lead to the Texas playboys

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Milton Brown

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Band leader and vocalist who was one of the founders of the Western swing

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Patti Page

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Sold More Records than any other female in the early 1950s
"Tennessee Waltz" major hit (#1 sport for 13 week...sold 6 million copies)
used multi-track tape recording first songs to issued on a 45 rpm single

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Kitty Wells

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1952-"It wasn't God who made Honky-Tonk Angels"
1st Number 1 Country hit by a Woman
Helped Establish Nashville as country capital
Specialized in songs of love and betrayal

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Hank Williams

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Between 1947 and 1953 36 top ten recordings on Country Charts
known as the singing kid and started Drifting Cowboys

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Rhythm and Blues

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WDIA Memphis radio station dedicated musicians
BB King was a DJ

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Deca and Chess

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Independent Record Companies
Artists signed to Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Count Bessie, and Billie Holliday
Chess Records: Blues, R&B, Gospel, early Rock. Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Willie Dixon

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Jump Blues

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Came out in the late '40s; Swing Kansas City style mixed with Blues
Used Smaller Big Bands

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Louis Jordan

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Signer/tenor sax
had popular jump band "Tenor 5"
bass, drums, 3 horns
riff based and repetitive
Biggest Hit "Choo choo Boogie"
Decca Records

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Ruth Brown

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blues singer
• Signed with Atlanta Records (Independent Label)
• ’51-’54 most popular female singer
"Mama he treats your daughters so mean"
• Crossed over the white people

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Big Mama Thornton

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Hound Dog-1953
R&B #1 For Rock N' Roll
Written by Jewish brahs (Leiber/Stroller)

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Muddy Waters

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Recorded by the Smithsonian playing in the original delta blues
Recorded for Chess Records
• Started playing early blues style on electric guitar
• Single handedly started the modern guitar
• Rolling Stones got their name from one of his songs

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Little Walter:

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Played the harmonica
Played with Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters on Chess Records

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Willie Dixon

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producer and base player for Muddy Waters
House musician
wrote "Hoochie Coochie Man"

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Alan Freed

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-First to use the term “Rock n’ Roll”
-Promoted concerts and tours featuring black artists, playing to a young, racially mixed audience
Even with resistance from society as a whole to the idea of racial integration
Blackballed within the music business

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Carl Perkins and Elvis Crossover success

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Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” along with Elvis’ “Heartbreak Hotel” made chart history by climbing the country, r&b,, and pop charts all at the same time
-Bill Hayley paved way for artists like Perkins

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Big Joe Turner

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• Began career as a singing bartender in Kansas City
• “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” Top on R&B charts and 22 on pop charts

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Bill Haley and the Comets

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• Changed name from Saddlemen to the Comets
• Recorded commercially successful cover versions of rhythm and blues
• Made a cover of “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
• Recorded “Rock around the Clock” First rock n’ roll hit to reach #1 on the pop charts
o First recorded for the movie Blackboard Jungle
-Rock Around the Clock first rock and roll album to be #1 on the pop chart
-signed to Decca

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Sh’ Boom

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• Originally recorded by the Chords
• Demonstrated the appeal that style could have to a mass audience
• The Crew Cuts made a cover of it, one of the biggest pop hits in 1954

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Mystery Train

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• Originally recorded by Little Junior’s Blue Flames (Herman “Little Junior” Parker)
• Elvis Presley covered it

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Chuck Berry

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-delta and country blues
-influenced a lot of rock guitar
-Maybellene and Johnny B. Good-big hits
-Influenced anyone from Beach Boys to Buddy Holly

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Fat's Domino

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New Orleans pianist/singer
-Breakthrough song “Ain’t it Shame”
-recorded independently
Berry, Little Richard, and Domino all recorded independently and paved the way for rock n’ roll
-Second biggest selling artists of the 1950s other than Elvis

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Little Richard

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-"Tutti-Fruitti”
-very animated performer
-had influences on white artists like CCR, the Beatles, and Jerry Lee Lewis
-took the 12 bar blues chord and adapted it to make it more “poppy
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Elvis Presley

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-made black music popular for white people
-used a lot sexual implications
-big hit “Don’t Be Cruel”
-Memphis, Tennessee
-aided by Chet Atkins and Thomas Parker
-part of RCA records

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Buddy Holly

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opposite of Elvis
-Texas-born
-band the Crickets
-“That’ll be the Day” #1 hit
-died in a plane crash at 22
-did a lot of experimentation with studio techniques and recording idea and very innovative with double tracking vocals

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The Twist

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-Chubby Checker
-reached number spot twice in two years...White Christmas only other song to do that

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Phil Spector

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• “To Know Him Is To Love Him” #1 record
• Songwriter/producer
• Started his own independent record
o Worked with personally selected songwriters, vocalists, instrumentalists, arrangers and engineers .
• The characteristics of his sound became known as the “Wall of Sound”
-Had multiple instruments doubling each individual part in the arrangements by using a huge amount of echo.

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Various Spector

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"Will You Still Love me Tomorrow?"-Written by Carole King performed by Sharelles
-produced Let it Be (Last Beatles Album)
-Wrecking Crew was his house band

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Barry Gordy

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• Motown
o Gordy’s own songwriting/producting/ marketing organization (Similar to Philles Records)
o First black owned record company
 Creative and financial aspects under African American control
o “The Sound of Young America”
o Major Artists
 Marvin Gaye-platinum hit "I heard it through the Grapevine"
 Stevie Wonder-talented drummer
 Mary Wells
 Jackson Five
 The Temptations
o Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye took on writing and producing responsibilities themselves
o First label to owned by a black
o Soul with distinct pop influence

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The Beach Boys

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• Formed by Brian Wilson with his two brothers, a cousin, and a friend
• “Surfin USA” first #1
• Songs were mostly about cars and girls
• Pet Sounds was their more artistic approach
• Guitar had a lot of similarities to the Chuck Berry sound
• Used a lot of experimental instruments on Pet Sounds (the Theremin)

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The Beatles

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• “I want to hold your hand” first #1
• Names
o John Lennon
o Paul McCartney
o George Harrison
o Ringo Starr
o 5th George Martin
o Stopped touring because concerts were so overwhelming, became “Studio Band”