History of Rock and Roll Unit #3
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What type of song was “Sincerely” by The Moonglows?
Doo-wop ballad
Who gave “The Moonglows” their name after his own nickname “Moondog”
Allan Freed
Where did The Moonglows sign?
Chess Records
Who was The Penguins’ manager?
Buck Ram
Who covered “Earth Angel” by The Penguins?
The Crew Cuts
Who was the most successful vocal group of the 50s?
The Platters
Who was The Platters’ manager?
Buck Ram
Who was a one hit wonder?
The Platters
Which vocal group’s song started the term “doo-wop” in 1961?
The Five Satins
Who had the first full orchestral arrangement on a doo-wop record?
The Skyliners
Who did uptemo doo-wop start with?
The Crows
Who had the first doo-wop record to sell over one million?
The Crows
Who covered “Oop Shoop” by Shirley Gunter and The Queens?
The Crew Cuts
Who wrote “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” by The Robins?
Leiber and Stoller
The Robins record label
Spark Records
Who came from The Robins?
The Coasters
Which record label bought Spark Records and offered Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract?
Atlantic Records
Where did The Coasters move and station themselves after recruiting new members?
New York (east coast)
Who wrote “Yakety Yak” by the Coasters?
Leiber and Stoller
Who was on saxophone in “Yakety Yak” by The Coasters?
King Curtis
Who was part of the Drifters?
Ben E. King
What did the Drifters’ manager do in 1958?
fired the entire group and hired The Five Crowns to take their place
Which record label for the drifters
Atlantic Records
Who wrote songs for drifters?
Gerry Goffun and Carole King
Who had the lead vocals in “Up on the Roof” by the drifters
Rudy Lewis
Who had lead vocals in “under the boardwalk” by the drifters?
Jimmy Moore
Who replaced Leiber and Stoller as staff producer at Atlantic for the drifters?
Bert Berns
Who was credited with inventing “rock theater”?
Screamin’ Jay hawkins
Where did lavern baker sign
Atlantic Records
who wrote “Fever” by Little Willie John?
Otis blackwell
Who covered “Louie Louie” by Richard Berry and reached #2 in US Charts?
The Kingsmen
Where did Clyde McPhatter sign?
Atlantic Records
Who hires jackie wilson in 1953 to replace Clyde?
The Dominoes
What does jackie wilson do in 1957?
goes solo
who wrote jackie wilson’s early hits?
Berry Gordon Jr.
what record label does Berry Gordon Jr. go on to form?
Motown Records
who wrote lonely teardrops by jackie wilson?
Berry gordy Jr. Gwendolyn Gordy, and Billy Davis
what happened to jackie wilson?
coma then briefly came back in 1976 then slipped back
who lived their professionaly and personal life as a member of the African-american commuity?
Johnny Otis
who wrote kansas city by wilbert harrison?
leiber and stoller
who originally sang the twist?
hank ballard and the midnighters
which song by chubby checker was the only one to reach #1 in two different charts?
The twist
who released the twist by chubby checker?
Philadelphia Cameo-parkway
Who wrote “mess around” by Ray charles?
Ahmet ertegun
what caused ray charles first hit to be banned from many radio stations?
charges of blasphemy
in what’d I say by ray charles, what instrument was used?
electric piano
what song by ray charles was the start of country soul?
I can’t stop loving you
who was the lead singer of the gospel group the soul stirrers on specialty records?
Sam cooke
who was the head of specialty records?
art rupe
who did Cooke produce with?
Bumps Blackwell
where did Sam Cooke and Bumps go to after leaving specialty Records?
Keen Records
Where was “bring it on home to me” released by sam cooke?
RCA
who had vocals in bring it on home to me by sam cooke?
Lou Rawls
how did sam cooke die?
shot december 11, 1964 at hacienda motel in LA
who was called “the godfather of soul”?
James Brown
who was the hardest working man in show business?
James Brown
where did james brown sign
king records
Which song of James Brown went #2 on pop album charts and spent 66 weeks on the charts?
Live At The Apollo
Who co-wrote and produced “Twist and Shout” by the isley brothers and was a replacement of Leiber and Stoller as house producer at Atlantic?
Bert Berns
who had lead vocals in “For your precious love” by Jerry Butler and the Impressions?
Curtis mayfield
who wrote its all right by the impressions?
curtis mayfield
who wrote monkey time by major lance?
curtis mayfield
who were the founders of stax records?
jim stewart and estelle axton
who distributed the releases of stax records?
atlantic records
5 members of Booker T. and the MGs
booker t, al jackson, steve croppers, lewie steinberg, donald duck dunn
where did otis redding release?
Stax subsidiary, volt
How did otis redding die?
plane crash
who wrote mr pitiful?
steve cropper
For the Memphis horns, what instruments were wayne jackson and Andrew Love on?
trumpet and sax
Who founded motown records in 1959 in DETROIT?
Berry Gordy Jr.
who wrote “reet petite” and “lonely teardrops” for jackie wilson?
Berry Gordy Jr.
what is the sound of young america?
public radio program and podcast
who wrote money thats what i want by barrett strong?
gordy and bradford
what was Motown’s first hit?
“Money, thats what i want” by Barrett Strong
who eventually joined the miracles?
Smokey Robinson
What was Motown’s first MILLION-SELLING HIT RECORD?
“Shop Around” by The Miracles
Who wrote Shop Around?
Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy jr.
who wrote you really got a hold on me by the miracles?
smokey robinson
where did marvin gaye record before motown and as a member of which group?
Chess, The moonglows
“Can I Get a Witness” who wrote it?
Holland-dozier-holland
who wrote love is like a heat wave by martha and the vandellas?
Holland-dozier-holland
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