Quiz 10 Doo Wop, Tin Pan Alley, Aldon Music Phil Spector Flashcards
The Broadway show Smokey Joe’s Café is about Leiber and Stoller’s music and features how many of their songs?
39
T/F
Around 1958, famous songwriters Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman assumed the role of producing the Drifters.
False
The most successful Doo Wop song of all time is credited to…
Get a Job
Al Nevins and Don Kirschner formed Aldon music, which was?
A music publishing company
One of the earliest music videos (called Scopitone) was made by Neil Sedaka in Italy. The song he filmed was?
Calendar Girl
The Ronettes recorded:
Be My Baby
Identify the statement that best represents what was unique about the Platters.
Had a woman in their line-up
The Ronettes were dubbed the first:
“Bad girls” of rock
La La Brooks was a member of which famous girl group?
The Crystals
T/F
Leiber and Stoller wrote a Broadway musical called Smokey Joe’s Café.
True
Doo-wop developed in what decade?
1940s
The first bubblegum girl group to have a #1 hit was?
The Shirelles
Aldon music (publishing company) was formed by Don Kirschner and:
Al Nevins
Who is responsible for developing the “Wall of Sound” phenomena?
Phil Spector
The following were all famous Tin Pan Alley songwriting partners except for…
Coaster and Platter
The Platters formed in 1953 and became one of the most popular:
Doo-Wop groups
Phil Spector single handedly changed the direction of recording and producing when his created his:
“Wall of Sound” phenomenon
Although Phil Spector had many defining moments as a producer in the early 1960s, which hit single did he himself consider to be his best representative work?
River Deep, Mountain High
T/F
The Crystals were the first group signed by producer Phil Spector to his Phil-les label in 1961.
True
Don Kirshner is known as…
The man with the golden ear
