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"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink...we're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first--rock and roll or Christianity." - ANSWER John Lennon "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - ANSWER The Beatles First number one 1963 King of Rock n' Roll - ANSWER Elvis "Leer-ics" and "dirty and as bad for kids as dope" - ANSWER Rhythm and Blues "Tom Dooley" - ANSWER Kingston Trio Beginning of folk movement 1958 - No. 1 on Billboard pop chart for 21 weeks "We Shall Overcome" - ANSWER Best known song for civil rights movement Pete Seeger 1967 - ANSWER Summer of Love Monterey Pop Festival
Newport Folk Festival The music industry broke the million dollar mark 1977 - ANSWER Death of Elvis and Bing Crosby ABC TV network - ANSWER Gave $6 million to Disney for weekly TV show Alan Freed - ANSWER Payola led to his downfall American Bandstand - ANSWER Dick Clark American physicist developed noise reduction unit - ANSWER Ray Dolby Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice - ANSWER Wrote Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Artist on "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" - ANSWER The Righteous Brothers Artist recorded "Rock Around the Clock" - ANSWER Bill Haley and the Comets ASCAP - ANSWER Investigated payola scandals Atlantic Records - ANSWER Independent label founded by Ahmet Ertegan and Herb Abransom Austin, TX - ANSWER Center for alternative country music Bakersfield, CA - ANSWER Home of the "Bakersfield Sound" Beach Boys - ANSWER Founded in California in 1961 "Surfin' Safari" Beatlemania - ANSWER Intense frenzy in the 1960s towards the Beatles
Brian Epstein - ANSWER Manager of the Beatles Brill Building - ANSWER 1619 on Tin Pan Alley in NY Over 150 music businesses including Aldon Music British Invasion - ANSWER 1960s trend of British music being popular in U.S. Built the first recording studio on "music row" - ANSWER Chet Atkins Capitol Records - ANSWER Based in L.A.; sent free discs to radio jockeys Center for alternative county music - ANSWER Austin, TX Center for hippies and flower power - ANSWER Haight-Ashbury in San Fransisco Chess Records - ANSWER Founded by brothers in chicago Chet Atkins - ANSWER Built first recording studio on music row Chuck Berry - ANSWER One for the first rock n' roll guitar heroes, helping to make guitar the dominant instrument of rock n' roll City in England where the Beatles originated - ANSWER Liverpool City where FM "progressive" radio began - ANSWER San Fransisco Clive Davis - ANSWER President of Columbia in 1967 Founder of Artista Signed Janis Joplin at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 Colonel Tom Parker - ANSWER Manager for Elvis concert for Bangladesh - ANSWER George Harrison benefit/charity concert
Copyrighted the term "rock n' roll" - ANSWER Alan Freed Country and Western Disk Jockeys Association - ANSWER Association formed in Nashville in 1958 to get country music on the radio Country music - ANSWER "Counter" to counterculture; white working class and working middle class Country Music Association - ANSWER 1958, Nashville Credited with founding "music row" - ANSWER Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins Davy Crockett - ANSWER Disney classic was the most popular song in 1955 Detroit - ANSWER Motown Developed the cassette tape - ANSWER Phillips Developed top 40 radio - ANSWER Todd Storz Dick Clark - ANSWER American Bandstand Died in August, 1977 - ANSWER Elvis Died in October, 1977 - ANSWER Bing Crosby Disco music - ANSWER mid-1970s, Distributed the Beatles music - ANSWER Capitol Records Dominant configuration for recorded music in 1967 - ANSWER Long-playing albums (LPs) Dominant record buyers in the 1950s - ANSWER Teenagers Don Cornelius - ANSWER Hosted Soul Train
Founded Motown - ANSWER Berry Gordy, Jr. Founded Reprise - ANSWER Frank Sinatra Stax - ANSWER Jim Stewart and Estelle Aston Founded Sun Records - ANSWER Sam Phillips Founded Vee Jay - ANSWER Vivian Carter and James Bracken Founded Warner Brothers Records - ANSWER Jack Warner Frank Sinatra - ANSWER Founded Reprise Records George Martin - ANSWER Producer for the Beatles Gold Record - ANSWER RIAA award for 500,000 albums or one million singles Grammy - ANSWER Started by NARAS; James Conkling was head Guitar player and studio wizard - ANSWER Les Paul Head of Columbia in 1967 - ANSWER Clive Davis Head of the Nashville office for Decca - ANSWER Owen Bradley Head of the Nashville office for RCA Victor - ANSWER Chet Atkins Herb Alpert and Jeffery Moss - ANSWER Founded A&M Records Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ANSWER A&M "The Lonely Bull" Hippies - ANSWER Personal freedom, sexual liberation, drug use, non-churched spirituality, communal living Holiday Inn - ANSWER The Who were banned from this hotel after an incident with explosive drums
Host of American Bandstand - ANSWER Dick Clark Independent label founded by Ahmet Ertegan and Herb Abransom - ANSWER Atlantic Records Independent label founded in Chicago by two brothers - ANSWER Chess Records Independent label in Memphis that recorded Elvis - ANSWER Sun Records Independent label in Memphis that recorded Otis Redding - ANSWER Volt (subsidy of Stax) In-house or branch distribution system - ANSWER System created by RCA in 1969 that allowed labels to have control over their products Jack Warner - ANSWER Founded Warner Brothers Records James Conkling - ANSWER Elected chair of the Grammys in 1957 John Lennon - ANSWER guitarist; The Beatles; co-wrote most of the songs with Paul McCartney Kemmons Wilson - ANSWER Created Holiday Inn motel chain Kingston Trio - ANSWER "Tom Dooley"
Label of the Supremes, Temptations, and Four Tops - ANSWER Motown
Lawrence Welk - ANSWER Big band performer on primetime in the 1960s
McDonald's - ANSWER Founded by Ray Kroc
Memphis - ANSWER Sun Records
Mike Curb - ANSWER Founded Curb Records
Monterey Pop Festival - ANSWER Festival that embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967
Motown - ANSWER Founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.
Muscle Shoales - ANSWER Alabama Musicians were white and singers were black Booker T and the M.G.'s
Nashville - ANSWER Center for country music
Nashville Sound - ANSWER Formed during the late 1950s as a sub-genre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of honky tonk music
which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s Chet Atkins
National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) - ANSWER Created the Grammy awards
Newport Folk Festival - ANSWER The home to protest singers and acoustic instruments since 1959. By 1965 attendance grew tremendously, but couldn't be justified for promoters; Bob Dylan
Outdoor rock n' roll concert in 1967 - ANSWER Monterey Pop Festival
Outdoor rock n' roll concert in 1969 - ANSWER Woodstock
Outlaw movement - ANSWER Country singers return to cowboys 1970s - Austin, TX
Owen Bradley - ANSWER Head of Nashville Decca Founded music row with Chet Atkins
Pat Boone - ANSWER Covered Tutti Frutti
PRO behind Congressional investigations of payola - ANSWER ASCAP
PRO that was the greatest licensor of rock n' roll - ANSWER BMI
Producer of the "wall of sound" - ANSWER Phil Spector
Producer of the Beatles - ANSWER George Martin
Purchased Atlantic, Elektra, and Reprise records - ANSWER Warner Brothers
Purchased Capitol records - ANSWER EMI
Purchased Decca records - ANSWER MCA
Purchased Mercury records - ANSWER Polygram
Qudrophonic sound - ANSWER Early 1970s, surround sound, didn't work with LP format
Randy Wood - ANSWER Founded Dot Records
Ray Dolby - ANSWER Inventor of dolby noise reduction system; co inventor of video tape recording; founder of dolby labs
Ray Kroc - ANSWER Founded McDonald's
RCA A&R man who signed Elvis Presley - ANSWER Steve Sholes
RCA Victor - ANSWER Chet Atkins
Reason for acceptance of stereo sound - ANSWER Improved economic conditions, teenage market
Reasons Nashville emerged as center of country music - ANSWER 1. An outpost from NY, LA, Chicago 2. Economies of scale: inexpensive to produce; sold enough to make it profitable 3. Efforts of CMA (CMA awards show, work with radio, hall of fame) 4. Connection with an urban and suburban middle class with rural roots 5. "Counter" to counterculture
Record Clubs - ANSWER Organizations in which members received free records in exchange for their commitment to purchase additional records
Rolling Stone magazine - ANSWER 1967; underground press that catered to young audiences
Sam Phillips - ANSWER Producer who discovered Elvis and Johnny Cash and founded Sun Records
San Fransicso - ANSWER Underground FM radio
Songwriters of America - ANSWER A group of 700 ASCAP members who were angry that their songs were no longer receiving the airplay that they had previously received; 1953 Songwriters of America filed a $150 million antitrust suit claiming that the radio stations blocked ASCAP songs from being aired because BMI controlled the nation's airways
Soul music - ANSWER Black working class
Soul Train - ANSWER Hosted by Don Cornelius
Stax Records - ANSWER Founded by Jim Stewart and Estelle Aston The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues
recordings
Steve Sholes - ANSWER Founded Muscle Sholes; RCA Victor with Elvis
Summer of Love - ANSWER (1967) peak of hippie counterculture movement, came into public view -- free love, music, sexual freedom, drugs
Sun Records - ANSWER Founded by Sam Phillips
The "voice of a generation" - ANSWER Bob Dylan
The Monkees - ANSWER A pop rock group assembled in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to
- The musical acting quartet was modeled after The Beatles
Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue - ANSWER Began FM underground radio in San Francisco
TV quiz show riggings - ANSWER Charles Van Doren "Twenty One" had been given answers for the show
non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
Writers of Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - ANSWER Andrew Lloyd Weber and
Wrote "Maybellene" and "Johnny B. Goode" - ANSWER Chuck Berry
Year the industry passed the billion dollar mark - ANSWER 1967
