Test 1 Flashcards
What is the form of Blues?
-12 bar blues, usually 1, 4, 5 chord form
What is the lyrical form of blue
-1 line, repeat, resolution
Who was Elvis’s manager
-Sam Phillips
Characterize Elivi’s Career
- started out writing covers
- transitiioned to RR, faster music,
- elvis the pevlis dancing made parents concerned
- tried to ccensor his dancing
Who was Wanda Jackson
- women artist in the 1950s
- had difficulty because she was a women
Who sung Hot Dog and what was it about
- Wanda Jackson
- women empowerment
- 12 bar blue
Who was Ritchie Valens
- anomaly full spanish song the was successful
- popular rift off Mexican folk song
- line, repeat, resolution
What were the payola hearings
- congressional hearings about bribing of RR music by the radio
- DJ Alan Freed arrested and fined and disgraced
What were contributions of RR?
- combined RB, gospal music
- teenage issues
- audience integration
- 12 bar blue importance
- electric guitar being used more often
- importance of stage performance
- blue collar
Who’s cover of mystery train did Elvis Cover?
-Junior Parker
Who sang ‘the twist’ and what was the significance?
- Chubby checker
- new dance craze that inspired many modern day dance crazes
- done by old and young people
what was the significance of the brill building?
- combining music from tin pan alley era, with rock, rhythm, and blues elements to create new popular music in the 50s
- associated with girl group music explosion
What was Aldon Music?
- part of the brill building era
- music publishing company that contracted writres such as neil diamond and phil spectre who would wrtie music for black female singers
who sang love me tomorrow?
- the shirrelles
- classical orchestra, less RB, AABA
Who was phil spectre?
- record producer
- pioneer the wall of sound
- controlled all spected of the producing
What was the wall of sound
- pioneed by phil spectre
- many different instruents layered over each other
- wrecking crew band made the music for many of the hits
who was carol kaye?
- guitarist who played on more pop hits than any artist
- played for the wrecking crew
who sings ‘uptown’?
- the crystals (1962)
- higher frequency of instruments
- class distinctions
who sings ‘be my baby’?
-the ronettes (1962)
what are brill buidlig contribution
- wall of sounds
- combination of tin pan alley, Rythem, rock, gospal ,
- inclusion of feamle artists and lyricists
What was hitsville USA?
- birthplace of motown music in detroit
- owned by Berry Gordon
- african american owned business during civil rights era
what was motown recipe for a hit?
- hook in the first few seconds of the song
- lyrical pronowns i.e me, I, you
- present tense lyrics
- smooth uran style
- simple 4/4 metre