history of rock n roll #3 exam

Woody Guthrie

This folk singer was politically active to the extent that he wrote a column in a Communist newspaper called People's World:

Pete Seeger

The person who was the link between the Almanac Singers and The Weavers was:

Pete Seeger

This songwriter is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", and "Turn, Turn, Turn!:

The Weavers

This group found themselves blacklisted during the HUAC Trials of the McCarthy era:

Charles Seeger

The beginning of the work of Folk Musicologists included the work by John and Alan Lomax along with:

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Organized labor began with the formation of this organization:

Scots-Irish Appalachia

There were two distinct folk music revivals in the 20th Century. The first grew out of the tradition from this ethnicity and region:

The Almanac Singers

This group was less interested in recording than in appearing at Union functions and anti-war protests:

The Almanac Singers

This early folk music group featured both Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger:

Huntington's Corea

Woody Guthrie's health began to decline at an early age. This was because of his affliction with this disease:

Paul Simon

The primary songwriter in the duo Simon and Garfunkel was:

Joan Baez

In the early 1960s, this artist moved to the forefront of the American folk-music revival. Increasingly, her personal convictions - peace, social justice, anti-poverty - were reflected in the topical songs she chose. She was:

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon and Garfunkel's biggest selling album was:

The Byrds

This group performed within the confines of three different genres including folk rock, psychedelia, and country rock:

Bridge Over Troubled Water

This album by Simon and Garfunkel featured elements of rock, pop, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, world music and other genres:

Peter, Paul and Mary

Albert Grossman created this group in 1961 after auditioning several singers in the New York folk scene. They had their first hits covering material by Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

This 1963 event featured some of the most influential performers of the time including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mahalia Jackson, Peter, Paul, and Mary and Josh White.

Simon and Garfunkel

This duo began as Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl".

Acting

Simon and Garfunkel parted ways following the Bridge Over Troubled Water album. Art Garfunkel went on to pursue a career in:

The Kingston Trio

The first "hit" group in the second folk music revival was:

The Hawks

The group who backed Dylan on his "electric" tour of 1965-66 was:

Robert Allen Zimmerman

Bob Dylan was born as:

He did not perform on the show due to artistic differences

Bob Dylan performed this song on the Ed Sullivan Show:

Another Side of Bob Dylan

This album marked the end of what Dylan called his "finger-pointing" songs:

Another Side of Bob Dylan

This Dylan album prompted Irwin Silber of Sing Out Magazine to say the Dylan had "somehow lost touch with people":

Like a Rolling Stone

Dylan's first hit single was a long song from Highway 61 Revisited. It went to #2 on the charts. It was:

The Band

Dylan's backup band on the 1965-66 tour would later be known as:

Blonde on Blonde

This was the first double album in rock music and was recorded in Nashville with session players:

John Wesley Harding

Following his motorcycle accident, Dylan settled into domestic life in Woodstock where he and the members of the Hawks recorded this set of songs:

John Hammond

Bob Dylan was signed to his first recording contract by:

The Miracles

The first act signed by Berry Gordy was The Matadors. They changed their name to:

The Jackson Five

The last group developed by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit was:

Jackie Wilson

Berry Gordy's first hit artist was:

The Sound of Young America and Hitsville USA

Motown was known by two different monikers. They were:

The Funk Brothers were credited for the first time on What's Going On.

The house band in residence at Motown was known as:

White Americans

Berry Gordy's goal was to make Motown's music palatable to this group of people:

Maxine Powell and Cholly Atkins

The acts on the Motown label were groomed, dressed and choreographed for live performances by these two people:

The Supremes

This group became one of the first black musical acts to achieve complete and sustained crossover success:

The Temptations

This group was said to have been said to be as influential to soul as The Beatles are to pop and rock.

Marvin Gaye

Perhaps the most political singer/songwriter at Motown was:

FAME

This studio was started in the 1950s by Rick Hall, Billy Sherrill and Tom Stafford. The studio occupied a former tobacco warehouse in Muscle Shoals in the early 1960s.

Booker T and the MGs

The house band on the recordings at Stax was:

The Funk Brothers

The house band at FAME studio was:

Ray Charles

He became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company:

Stax

This record company was founded in Memphis in 1957 by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton:

Rhythm & blues

After Herb Abramson was drafted in1953, Ahmet Ertegun recruited Jerry Wexler, who is credited with coining this term to replace the previously used "race music" in reference to black music:

Otis Redding

This Stax artist brought soul music to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival:

Aretha Franklin

Her breakthrough hit came when she recorded "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" at Muscle Shoals:

Ray Charles

This artist fused rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into early recordings with Atlantic Records.

Tom Dowd

Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler collaborated with this producer to create many of the hits for Atlantic: