Rock And Roll Music 1

Question 1

What is a cover?

Answer 1

When another group besides the original songs a song

Question 2

Who recorded the 1st big R&R record, “Rock Around The Clock”?

Answer 2

Bill Haley and The Comets

Question 3

Who ran Sun Studios in Memphis, TN?

Answer 3

Sam Phillips

Question 4

What guitarist is known for his “duck walk”?

Answer 4

Chuck Berry

Question 5

Where did Elvis Presley first record?

Answer 5

Sun Studios

Question 6

What is payola?

Answer 6

Practice of paying DJs to play your music

Question 7

Who took the fall for the payola scandal?

Answer 7

Alan Freed

Question 8

What performer gave up R&R for the ministry?

Answer 8

Little Richard

Question 9

Whose career was ruined when his marriage to his 13 year old cousin was revealed?

Answer 9

Jerry Lee Lewis

Question 10

What R&R star got drifted into the army?

Answer 10

Elvis Presley

Question 11

What 3 performers lost their lives in a plane crash February 3,1959

Answer 11

Ritchie Valens, JP the Big Booper, and Buddy Holly

Question 12

R&R developed out of three principles sources that preceded it

Answer 12

Mainstream popular music, rhythm and blues, country western

Question 13

In the first half of the 20th century,________ was the principle way of selling music.

Answer 13

Sheet music

Question 14

________________ Alley” was an area in New York City, where, about 100 years old, the high concentration of songwriters plunking out their song ideas on rows of pianos sounded like people banging of tin pans.

Answer 14

Tin Pan

Question 15

The years from about 1935-1945 is considered the __________ era

Answer 15

Big band

Question 16

The most important pop singer in the 1930s and 1940s was

Answer 16

Frank Sinatra

Question 17

Who made the singer, not the band, the star of the show?

Answer 17

Frank Sinatra

Question 18

What guitarist/inventor invented the solid body electric guitar, as well as sound-on-sound recording (over dubbing)?

Answer 18

Les Paul

Question 19

Who was the 1st star of country music?

Answer 19

Jimmie Rodgers

Question 20

In the minds of many Americans in the early 1950s,___________ stood for country music

Answer 20

Hank Williams

Question 21

What city became headquarters for country music?

Answer 21

Nashville, Tennessee

Question 22

The origin of bluegrass can be traced to ______________ and his Bluegrass Boys.

Answer 22

Bill Monroe

Question 23

The roots of selling blues records can be traced to the 1923 million- selling hit “ Down Hearted Blues”, sung by _________________

Answer 23

Bessie Smith

Question 24

What two brothers started Chess Records in Chicago, recording electric blues artists like Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley?

Answer 24

Leonard and Phil Chess

Question 25

A style of music called _______ , named after the nonsense syllables singers would often use in their arrangements

Answer 25

Doo-wop