What’s in it?

• Influences of the five style setters in rock n roll 1950s

• summarize other influences

• Emergence of Rock n roll on the Industry

• analyze soft rock

Little Richard: Born in 1932. purest prototype. Self-contained package. He is the third out of 12. Trouble some as a kid. He became the breadwinner of the family. He created boogie. Did self-parody.

Fat Domino: Born in 1928 Feb. Quit school and worked at a factory and musician at night. Did eight bar blues. Aint that a shame first hot. Turned into pop. More controlled and refiend.

Chuck Berry: Apart of the “Big Six”. Born in 1926. Did a ton. More vocal style. Did tradeoffs. Did Duck Walk.

Jerry Lee Lewis: Born in 1935. Did glissandi. Married his cousin. Fucking crazy. He had a bad life afterwards.

Buddy Holly: Born in 1936. Signed with Decca. Made the Crickets. Married a Puerto Rican woman. He was more reserved and wrote his own songs. Did double tracking. Died in airplane.

R&B and Gospel-Derived Rock: People that became popular to it was Lloyd Price, Ray Charles, and Sam Cooke.

Rockabilly: Sun Records helped a lot. Johnny Cash helped.

Soft Rock: Important contrast to the musical characteristics evident in mainstream rock and rockabilly. Artists that helped was Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, and Frankie Avalon.

Vocal Grouops: Ranged to rock oriented style. Male singers had great vocal range. Female Singer rare.

Instrumental Groups: consistent.

Novelties: Has a catchy hook. Humorous and whimsical.

The Industry: mid 50s musical revolution.

Radio: New thing to listen music.

Payola: Companies in legal trouble for paying each other to play only artists.

Soft rock = Rock:

• Elements: tempo, Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Tonality, and Form.