exam 3 history

"Rock 'n' Roll Party"

The Moondog Show with Alan Freed changed to this in NYC

"The Ed Sullivan Show"

Popular variety show, hosted by Ed Sullivan, that ran from 1955 to 1971

American physicist, who developed a noise reduction unit for cassettes

Ray Dolby

Award created by NARAS

Grammy's

Who Created the Grammys

The Recording Academy

Award created by RIAA

Gold Records (500,000 units)

Bakersfield, CA

Bakersfield Sound

Best selling albums during the period 1956-1959

Broadway Albums

Blackboard Jungle

a 1955 fictional film about juvenile delinquency that inadvertently turned Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" into a hit by using it under the opening credits

British act, led by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin

British label purchased Capitol Records

EMI

British term for folk music

Folklore

Broadway and movie soundtracks

selling well; soundtracks dominated in 1955-1963; JCS brought forth Jesus Movement; Musicals to movies (Grease); Saturday Night Fever brought new marketing for soundtracks (singles released before films, video clips in music stores, drove consumers into movie theaters, brought disco to Middle America)

Building in New York which housed a number of songwriters and publishers

The Brill Building

California group on Capitol, led by Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys

Center for hippies and flower power in the 1960's

San Francisco

City that rivaled Nashville as a creative center for country music

Bakersfield

Columbia Records executive who hated rock 'n' roll

Mitch Miller

Columbia Record executive who produced hit cast recordings for Broadway shows

Goddard Lieberson

Company that developed the cassette tape

RCA Victor

Concert for Bangladesh

benefit concert organized by George Harrison

Concert/festival in upstate New York in August, 1969

The Woodstock Music Festival

Contemporary Christian Music

Amy Grant

Disco Music

mid 70s, night spots, clubs and lofts. Disc jockeys at the disco clubs, disco music affected technology

Disc Jockey became famous for playing rhythm and blues music for white kids

"Daddy" Gene Nobles

dominant record buyers in the 1950s

teenagers

Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI)

formed in March 1931 by the merger of the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company

Executive with CBS who went to the Monterey Pop Festival and signed Janis Joplin

Clive Davis

Federal ruling in 1965 that caused AM and FM radio to separate

FM Non-Duplication Rule

Female singer-songwriter who began as a "Brill Building" Songwriter

Ellie Greenwich

Formation of Country Music Association

created from the Country and Western Disc Jockeys Association in 1958

Founded Reprise Records

Frank Sinatra

Founded Lookout Management

David Geffen

Founded Motown

Berry Gordy Jr.

founded Sidewalk Records

Mike Curb

Founded Stax Records

Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton

founded Sun Records

Sam Phillips

founded Warner Brothers Records

Jack Warner

Founder of RSO Records

Robert Stigwood

Founders of Philadelphia International

Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff

Frank Sinatra

One of the greatest entertainers in history; unique singing style & silky voice; starred in over 60 movies; led the Rat Pack during the 60s; created the role of the lead singer

Manger for the Beatles

Brian Epstein

Manger of Elvis Presley

Colonel Tom Parker

Monterey Pop Festival

3-day festival held in June 1967 - Estimates range from 25,000 to 90,000 people in attendance for this "hippie" festival. Marked the start of the "Summer of Love" and made California the center for the countercultural revolution.

Group that "embraced the philosophies of personal freedom, sexual liberation, drug use Guitarist who developed musically in Nashville and became famous with "psychedelic" music

Hippies

Los Angeles

Music Mecca of the West Coast

Most important concert promoter during the 1960's and 1970's

Bill Graham

Movement in country music, led by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

Outlaw Country Movement

Movie that featured "Rock Around the Clock"

Blackboard Jungle

Movie that first captured the disco trend for the mass audience

Saturday Night Fever

Music described by critics as having "leer-ics" and was "dirty and as bad for kids as dope"

Rhythm and Blues

Music favored by college students during 1964-1965 school year

Rock and Folk

Music that was an outgrowth of the "Jesus Movement"

Jesus Christ Superstar

Musical movement known for being loud, abrasive, fast, confrontational and angry"

Punk

Name of Alan Freed's show in New York

Moondog/Rock n Roll Party

Newport Folk Festival

an annual folk festival that was first held in 1959 in Newport, Rhode Island

organization that was driving force behind the Congressional investigations of payola

Alan Freed

Outdoor rock'n'roll festival in 1969

Woodstock

Outdoor rock'n'roll festival in 1967

Monterey Pop Festival

Outlaw Movement

movement in country music led by Willie and Waylon

payments to disk jockeys by independent record labels

"Gifts" / Payola

payola scandals led to what changes in radio was programming

Disc jockeys no longer had control over what they played, tightened playlists. created AM/FM radio, must now be disclosed that it is "sponsored airtime" if its paid for

Philips Electronics

marketed compact cartridge system "cassette"

Pioneering marketing techniques pioneered by RSO Records for Saturday Night Fever

Releasing Singles before Album/Movie

Political positions for those in the counterculture during the 1960s

Preeminent gathering for folk singers during the early 1960s

American Folk Music Revival

Producer who created the "Wall of Sound"

Phil Spector

Punk music

a style of music and fashion in the 1970s which was wild, loud, and violent

Reason 8-track tapes dominated over cassettes for a number of years

Doubled the playing time

Reason Capitol Records resisted releasing the Beatles records

They had no hits in U.S.

Reason college students were protesting during the 1960s

Reason for drop in single-discs (45s) sales in 1959

Reason transistor radios and 8-track tapes become successful

Rhythm and Blues

a form of popular music of African-American origin that arose during the 1940s from blues, with the addition of driving rhythms taken from jazz. It was an immediate precursor of rock and roll.

Rock concert in Madison Square Garden held as a benefit

Rolling Stone

A magazine established in 1967 that provided music criticism

Saturday Night Fever

a 1977 American film that showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture styles of clothing, pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity, and graceful choreography.

Show where the Beatles made their American television debut

The Ed Sullivan Show

Singer/songwriter who began in folk music with songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind"

Bob Dylan

Singers killed in plane crash in 1959

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson

Singer-songwriter who appeared on the cover of Time Magazine

James Taylor

Skiffle music

British music based on American folk/rockabilly music

Song that was an anthem" for the Civil Rights movement

Songwriters of America

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

African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.

Summer of 1967

Summer of Love

Summer of Love

the height of the hippie movement during the Summer of 1967 in San Francisco

Term used for the music of African-Americans during the 1960s

Soul Music

Term used for the music that began in the early 1970s in dance clubs

Disco Music

Term used when country music added strings and a "smooth" sound to recordings

The Nashville Sound

The Brill Building

the center of much popular songwriting activity in NYC from 1959 to 1963.

The Twist

A dance popular in the 1960s, performed alone by shaking and twisting the hips

Town in Alabama housed studios where R&B hits were recorded

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

We Shall Overcome

Best known song of the civil rights movement

What Dot Records artist recorded white covers of Little Richard songs

Pat Boone

What did Columbia develop to sell records to rural consumers

Columbia Record Club

What is "Top 40" radio

the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre

What kind of music did the Beatles play in Germany

loud rock 'n' roll, stomping rhythms and guitar riffs

What kind of music did The Quarrymen (early Beatles) perform

Skiffle