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Sun Records
memphis based independent label that originally signed
elvis, jerry lewis and carl perkins
TERM 2
RCA
DEFINITION 2
Major international label that purchased Elvis contract rights
in 1955
TERM 3
Decca
DEFINITION 3
Major international label featuring both Buddy Holly and Bill
Haley
TERM 4
Atlantic
DEFINITION 4
New York-based independent label featuring Ray Charles,
Ruth Brown, The Coasters, and The Drifters
TERM 5
Chess
DEFINITION 5
Chicago based independent label featuring Chuck Berry,
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley
Ma Rainey
Believed to be the first Blues Singer
TERM 7
Les Paul
DEFINITION 7
First prototype of the electric guitar
TERM 8
Leo Fender
DEFINITION 8
Mass Produced the first electric guitar
TERM 9
Ahmet Ertegun
DEFINITION 9
Co-Founder of Atlantic Records
TERM 10
Sam Phillips
DEFINITION 10
Founder of Sun Records
Muddy Waters
"I Got my Mojo Working"
TERM 17
Fats Domino
DEFINITION 17
Ain't That a Shame
TERM 18
Little Richard
DEFINITION 18
Tutti FruttiLater dropped rock and went into the ministry
TERM 19
Chuck
Berry
DEFINITION 19
MaybellineTook a 14 year old girl across state lines and was
arrested
TERM 20
Buddy Holly
DEFINITION 20
Peggy SueDied in a small plane crash in 1959
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak HotelWas drafted into the army
TERM 22
Bill Haley
DEFINITION 22
Rock around the Clock
TERM 23
Everly
Brothers
DEFINITION 23
Bye, Bye Love
TERM 24
Blues Styles of: Robert Johnson Big Joe Turner
Howlin' Wolf Fats Domino Bill Haley
DEFINITION 24
Robert Johnson- Delta BluesBig Joe Turner- Jump
Blues/R&BHowlin' Wolf- Chicago Electric BluesFats Domino-
New Orleans R&BBill Haley- Rockabilly
TERM 25
Fabian
DEFINITION 25
Italian-American teen idol of the late 50's
Berry Gordon Jr.
Founder of Motown Records.
TERM 32
Smokey Robinson
DEFINITION 32
An influential singer/songwriter with Motown.
TERM 33
Duane Eddy
DEFINITION 33
Developed the twangy "surf" guitar sound in the late 1950s.
TERM 34
Jerry Lee Lewis
DEFINITION 34
Married his 13 year old third cousin and it ruined his career
TERM 35
Carl Perkins
DEFINITION 35
His career was ruined by a severe auto accident in 1956.
Pete Best Richard Starkey (RINGO)
Pete Best- Original drummer for the Beatles, was kicked out
after they needed someone betterRichard Starkey (Ringo
Star)- became the Beatles famous drummer
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Brian Epstein
DEFINITION 37
Beatles first professional manager (was a record shop
manager before)
TERM 38
Allan Williams George Martin
DEFINITION 38
Allan Williams -Tallent agent who booked the Beatles at
gigs in Hamburg, Germany where they gained a lot of
traction. George Martin- The Beatles' producer/engineer.
TERM 39
Robert Allan
Zimmerman
DEFINITION 39
Bob Dylan's Birth name
TERM 40
Woody Gunthrie
DEFINITION 40
Leading of the US folk protest singers of the 1940s-1950s
