History of Rock Take home quiz

According to your text: Jerry Lee Lewis once set his piano on fire using lighter fluid because he was not the closing act of a performance. Name the performer who was the final act

Chuck Berry

According to your text: was a female artist who in

the 1960s recorded a song “in England with Jimmy Page.”

Brenda Lee

This group was so popular they had their own brand of bread

The Supremes

Who shot Sam Cooke?

Bertha Franklin

According to your text, "Grew up poorer than poor,

picking cotton, shining shoes, dancing for pennies in the streets. Later came reform school, boxing, semiprofessional baseball, and afier a leg injury scotched his ambition to become a big league pitcher a vocal group, The Fabulous Flames."

James Brown

According to your text: ____" made a career of singing off-key in numberless beach party movies” in the 1960s.

Annette Funicello

Who started the publishing company Kags Music

Sam Cooke

According to your text *____ and ____

used to spend their time traveling together at the back of a bus, kneeling on the floor, and shooting craps [dice] with their nights earnings.

Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry

According to your text: “As the home of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand ** the city of

“...became the hub of the record business.”

Philidelphia

_____ fined band members for playing wrong notes

James Brown

______ was the first to use strings on a rock and roll record

Buddy Holly

According to your text: this rock & roll artist received the “rarely granted Bing Crosby Award of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences”

Elvis Presley

According to your text: “...the white bungalow at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit is distinguished only by a large sign proclaiming it HITSVILLE, USA” This was the home of a record company known as

Motown Records

According to your text: This successful American “female artist recorded many songs in Spain and Italy — and in the native languages.”

Connie Francis

Who established their own record company?

Sam Cooke

According to your text: This veteran rock and roll drummer was a member of Lionel Hampton’s jazz band, and many R&B shows. Please name the artist

Dino Danelli

Who saw himself playing “the devil’s music”

Jerry Lee Lewis

Who was the first to double track his voice and guitar?

Buddy Holly

According to your text: The great R&B songwriter named _____ composed “...Don’t Be Cruel” and “All

Shook Up for Elvis,” and ... “Great Balls of Fire for Jerry Lee Lewis.”

Otis Blackwell

This studio sent its artists to finishing school where they learned how to sit, walk and talk and even how to smoke a cigarette with grace and eloquence.” Please name it:

Motown Records

“The Rolling Stones were once the opening act” for this performer. Please name the artistll

Chuck Berry

According to your text: “After a wild interstate chase with police from Georgia to South Carolina, was sentence to serve two concurrent six-year sentences in jail for assault and weapons charges.”

Chuck Berry

Tamla was an early name for which studio?

Motown

Who created Sar-Derby Records

James Brown

One of the first white rock stars to rely exclusively on his own material

Buddy Holly

Which two members of Booker T and The MGs went on to join the Blues Brothers?

Donald Dunn, Steve Cropper