1950s-1960s American Music: Genres, Song Forms, and Key Artists

Nancy (With the Laughin' Face)

Frank Sinatra, 1945

Mambo Italiano

Rosemary Clooney, 1954

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie

Louis Jordan's Tympany Five, 1946

Hoochie ******* Man

Muddy Waters, 1954

Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean

Ruth Brown, 1953

Hound Dog

Leiber/Stoller - Big Mama Thornton, 1953

Maybellene

Chuck Berry, 1955

Long Tall Sally

Little Richard, 1956

Don't be Cruel

Elvis Presley, 1956

Be My Baby

Phil Spector/The Ronettes, 1963

You Can't Hurry Love

Holland-Dozier-Holland/The Supremes, 1966

A Hard Day's Night

McCartney/Lennon/The Beatles, 1964

Yesterday

McCartney/Lennon/The Beatles, 1965

Good Vibrations

The Beach Boys, 1966

Form of Nancy (with laughing face)

AABA

Music type of Nancy (with laughing face)

string instraments dominate

Form of Mambo italiano

AABA

Form of choo choo ch' boogie

12 bar blues

story of hobo looking for work, hops on train for the city

choo choo ch' boogie

sounds like train

choo choo ch' boogie

Form of hoochie coochie man

16 bar blues

form of mama he treats your daughter mean

verse refrain

mix of tin pan alley and 16 bar blues

mama he treats your daughter mean music type

complaint song

mama he treats your daughter mean song message

hound dog form

12 bar blues

elvis later remade the song

Hound dog

Maybellene form

verse-chorus

"Long Tall Sally" - Form

verse-chorus, modified 12 bar blues,

"Don't Be Cruel" form

verse chours, reverb, slapback

dont be cruel

advent of rock and roll - death of tin pan alley

Be My Baby Form

verse-chorus

be my baby song type

simple song, instruments doubled to create wall sound

"A Hard Day's Night" - Form

AABA

Yesterday form

AABA

you can hurry love form

AABA

each A section begins isolated essential word serves as hook

yesterday

Good Vibrations composed by

brian wilson lyrics by mike love

used theremin - whirrling, siren sounds in B sections

Good vibrations