Midterm 2 Flashcards
“Hoochie Coochie Man”
Muddy Waters (1953) Harmonica Stop-Time Call and Response Strophic Extended 12 bar blues
“Smokestack Lightening”
Howlin Wolf (1956) Cyclical Guitar Riff "Woo-Hoo" Refrain Brooding and somber Harmonica and Gruff
“Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean”
Ruth Brown (1953) Repetitive Lyrics Tambourine Stress on Backbeat Vocals Gospal Like Extended 12 bar blues/ AAAB
“I’ve Got a Woman”
Ray Charles (1954) Gospel Chords Ornamental vocals Call and Response Stop Time
“The Wild Side of Life”
Hank Thompson (1951)
Polka Rhythm
Vocal Twang, Fiddle Steel Guitar
“It wasn’t God who made Honky Tonk Angels”
Kitty Wells (1952)
Response to “The Wild Side of Life”
Women are not the blame for bar culture of unattached women.
“Your Cheatin’ Heart”
Hank Thompson (1952) Fiddle/ Steel Guitar Twang and Yodel Polka Sustained Words
“Nancy with the Laughing Face”
Frank Sinatra
Reserved Vocals
Band Accompaniment, Jazz Syncopation
Strophic with Refrain
“Long Tall Sally”
Little Richard Stop Time 12 Bar Blues Refrain/Chorus Repetitive Boogie Rhythm
“Rock Around the Clock”
Bill Haley (1954) Back Beat 12 bar blues (bass guitar) Honky Tonk Electric Solo Sax implies Jump Band
“Maybelline”
Chuck Berry (1955) Polka Style and Twang Countryish 12 bar blues
“The Answer is Blowing in the Wind”
Peter Paul and Mary (1963)
Refrain makes it folky
Strophic
“The Times are a-changing”
Bob Dylan (1963) Strophic Ballad with Refrain Folk Version of rebellion Political Triple Meter
“Turn Turn Turn”
The Byrds (1966) Vocal Harmonies Refrain Social Message 12-string Guitar Rockish
“You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me”
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1962) Motown Call and Response Back Beat Guitar Hook
“My Girl”
The Temptations (1965) Derived from R&B Guitar Hook Motown Back Beat for Dance
“Stop in the Name of Love”
The Supremes (1965)
Maturity, Diana Ross
Motown
“Respect”
Aretha Franklin (1967)
Gospel/Soul
Call and Response
“Papa’s Bag”
James Brown (1965) AABA (Head and Bridge) 12 bar blues in A Call and Response in B PolyRhythm "Groove"
“Somebody to Love”
Jefferson Airplane (1967) Grace Slick leas singer Hard-edged Love, Drugs Mixture of many genres
“Summertime”
Janis Joplin (1968)
Blues
Tin Pan Alley Song
“Crossroads”
Eric Clapton and Cream (1969)
Cover Robert Johnson
12 bar blues
Power Drum
“Purple Haze”
Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
Power Trio
Blues Inspired
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
Beatles (1967)
Psychadelic
Sitar
Synthsizer
“Black Dog”
Led Zepellin
Heavy Metal
Distorted Guitar
“Stairway to Heaven”
Led Zepellin
Evolving Form from Strophic
Builds to heavy rock
9 minutes long
“Oye Come Va”
Santana (1970)
ChaCHa CHa
Polyrhythmic
Bluesy and no wind instruments
“Azucar pa ti”
Eddie Palmieri Flute and trombone Innovative (like 60s) Improvisation like Jazz Percussion and polyrhythmic is different
“Bang Bang”
Joe Cuba (1968)
Latin and R&B
Back beat
Latin Percussion
“Siembra”
Ruben Blades & WIllie Colon (1978)
Salsa
Verse and Coro (call and response)
“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)”
Slay and the Family Stone (1970)
Verse and Chorus
No Chord Progression
Slap Bass
“Flashlight”
George Clinton and Parliment/Funkadelic (1978) No Chord Progression Bass SYnthesized Collective