History Of Rock And Roll Midterm

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George Martin, producer

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*The Fifth Beatle Head of Parlophone, an EMI subsidiary label, Produced all of the Beatles work Contributed greatly to experimental techniques in the studio, from orchestra arrangements to tape effects

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Jump Blues

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The first commercially successful category of rhythm & blues, flourished during and just after World War II. Ensembles were smaller than the big bands of the swing era and specialized in hardswinging, boogie-woogie-based party music, spiced with humorous lyrics and wild stage performances.

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Tin Pan Alley

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Reborn in the "new style"--take over of rock n roll by the song writers.

1920's and 1930's had songwriters producers and promotors all in one area. Produced major hits in ragtime and pop music

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Maybellene

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The reverse crossover! Ida Mac

chuck berry pioneering rock and rool singles

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Alan Freed

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A disc jockey who began playing a unique style of music at the time called "rhythm-and-blues" on a Cleveland radio show, who gained a wide following from black and white teenagers due to his on-air attitude and style, gaining a wide following for this new genre that evolved into rock-and-roll. coined the term rock n roll

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Leo Fender

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created west coast Fender guitars, experimented with solid body guitars, first commercially successful in 1946 with Esquire guitar

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Todd Storz

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(thought radio should sound like a jukebox & have less talk) -- Bought KOHW in Omaha, Nebraska in 1949. -- One of the two pioneers of format radio

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Sun Studi0

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opened by sam philips- and is the pioneer for rock and roll hits. Produced Rocket 88- ike turner. Jonney cash elvis jerry lee lewis all recoreded there.

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How did events in each of these artist's lives affect the "Death of Rock N Roll and Triumph of Soft Sounds: Chuck Berry

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Puts together the key musical element, the beat, sound, and style of lead & rhythm guitar-the aggressive guitar sound is born! Mann act leads to his downfall

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How did events in each of these artist's lives affect the "Death of Rock N Roll and Triumph of Soft Sounds: Jerry Lee Lewis

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Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist.
An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis had hits in the late 1950s with songs such as "Great Balls of Fire" marries 13 cousin leads to downfall

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How did events in each of these artist's lives affect the "Death of Rock N Roll and Triumph of Soft Sounds: Buddy Holly

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Not R&B based, not biracial, R&B through elvis, singular vocal style, unusual arrangements & use of instruments. Band format—2 guitars, bass, drums, Not sexual—geek appeal, Beyond Dance music peggy sue and the crickets plane crash early

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How did events in each of these artist's lives affect the "Death of Rock N Roll and Triumph of Soft Sounds: Elvis Presley

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First white person with individual style that is clearly rooted in african american idiom!
personifies rock n roll, its most memorable voice, indelible images & its strangest commercial presence.
the rock archetype--obscurity, humble origins, bad boy/renegade, unusual talent. joined military

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How did events in each of these artist's lives affect the "Death of Rock N Roll and Triumph of Soft Sounds: Little Richard

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Vocal style, beat & performance flamboyant

tutti frutti, long tall sally

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Payola

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the unethical (but not always illegal) practice of record promoters paying deejays or radio programmers to favor particular songs over others.

nearly ended alen freed and dick clark

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Brill Building

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Rock 'n' roll's vertical Tin Pan Alley. It was home to many pop-rock songwriting teams during the early 1960s.

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Skiffle

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a style of popular music in the 1950s used simple homemade insturments that produced unique sounds. mix of jazz and blues thought to come from new orleans . This type of music was easy to produce because it didn't involve difficult insturments.

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Doo Wop

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Vocal style of the 1950s featuring a lead vocalist with backround vocalists often employing nonsense syllables to imitate instrumental accompaniment. combination of rock n roll and r&b sh-boom the chords and frankie lemmye and the teenagers

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Rockabilly

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the new sound, not just white reinterpretation of black r&--southern honkey tonk music--western swing meets rhythm and blues! hilbilly & r&b (rock around the clock- billy haley)

elvis johnny cash clasical rock

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Blue Suede Shoes

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forst rockabilly hit record- by carl perkins. elvis later made his version of the song
-top 10 on every major radio station (country, pop, R&B) -- cross over artist --by Carl Perkins

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Jimmie Rodgers

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"The Singing Brakeman". started out in vaudeville. seen as wordly, opposite of Carter Family. Known for his "blue yodel". Considered country's (then hillbilly's) first true star

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phil spector

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girl groups ( the Ronettes, the crystals). the wall of sound worked with the beatles

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crossover

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pat boone take african american songs and tone them down change some lyrics and make it more appealing to a broader crowd

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pate boone

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got fame from doing crossovers of songs such as tutti frutti and long tall sally

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song for woody

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bob dylans first ever song, woody guithre

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rock around the clock

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bill haley and his comets. used the 12 bars blues format. considered the song that brought rock n roll to the mainstream

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Ahmet Ertegun

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creater and president of altantic records. credited for producing many of the r&b and rock musicians

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muddy waters

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father of modern chicgo blues. rolling stones named them selvs after his song rolling stone

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Bo Diddley Song

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first song by bo diddley, with chess records

first song to introduce african american rythems to rock n roll

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Robert Johnson

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crossroads blues, master of mississippi delta blues

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Tutti Frutti

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little richards first major hit. opening up the doo wop music screen. covered by pat and elvis

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Ed Sullivan

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hosted the varity show called the ed sullivan show, where artist went to become noticed and popular

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The Twist

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cover song by chubby cheakers. became a dance craze and was only song to be number one in two different charts runs

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

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song writers that became popular with elvises crossover of hound dog. launched red birds records.