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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 who wrote and performed American Pie | Don Mclean |
| How many takes did American Pie take to perfect | 24 |
| In what year was American Pie recorded | 1971 |
| Who is Lonnie Donegan | skiffle artist! from england |
| Skiffle | type of music with jass and blues influence usually produced with homemade and/or household instruments |
| First person in the US to make his living as a full time professional song writer | Steven Foster (oh susanna) |
| American popular culture has been closely bound up with.... | dancing! |
| %0's pop icon who was touring with buddy holly but refused to ride in an airplane that ended up crashing and killing everyone | Dion Demucci |
| People who were associated with cruise-line ships that traveled between NY and Liverpool | Cunard Yanks |
| Who invented the phonograph | Thomas Edison |
| What year was the phonograph invented | 1877 |
| Best known composer of ragtime music | Scott Joplin |
| Who sang "Im a loser" | John Lennon |
| Al Nevins and Don Kershner created this music publishing company | AlDon |
| The company lasted 5 years and was housed in this building | BRILL Building in NYC |
| Recording engineer and something producer for a vast majority of records released by atlantic records in the 50s 60s and 70s | Tom Dowd |
| Chuck Berry recorded Maybellene. What did Frato and Freed do to get credit for the song. | Nothing at all. they should not have gotten credit |
| Richard Wayne Penniman's stage name... | Little Richard |
| This singer used techniques which looked forward to the techniques of the 1960's such a double tracking | Buddy Holly |
| Of 5 early rock and roll stars, this one was the only one who didnt write their own songs | Elvis Presley |
| First distinctively american form of popular culture | minstrelsy |
| Ex brill building demo singer who released the album graceland | Paul Simon |
| Graceland features music from a group from | South Africa |
| Scene in the movie O Brother where Art Thou, THE MAN AT THE CROSSROADS | robert johnson |
| The family name | The carters |
| paying a dj to play a song | payola |
| biggest promoter of rock n roll in 54 and 55. played rhythm and blues (working black music... sweaty and dancey music) | Allan Freed |
| John Lennons mom | Julia |
| Who did John Lennon grow up with | Mimi |
| John Lennon's first rock n roll song | Rocket 88 |
| Famous american artist who invented the scratchy guitar sound | Bo Diddley |
| coined the term rhythm and blues | Jerry Wrexler |
| range of human hearing | 20 Hz - 20,000 Hz |
| early recordings used | no electricity or microphones |
| granted a patent for a flat disk gramophone thus making the production of copies practical | emile berlinger in 1887 |
| 45 RPM= | 1 song/side. a single |
| started a microphone company in germany | georg neumnn |
| father of the blues. "walking in memphis | WC HANDY |
| vibrations per second | frequency |
| 800 mpr | speed of sound |
| molecules sitting stagnant in air. jam them up and you make a... | pressure wave |
| vibrations transmitted through a solid liquid or gas | sound |
| gas that prefer to be evenly spaced. | molecules |
| Berry Gordy... | detroit, motown, blacks ran all the financial aspects, cared about performances and songs |
| phil spector... | phille records |
| 2nd biggest recording artist of the 50's... behind elvis | fats domino |
| first real recording female start of rock and roll | connie francis |
| female elvis | Janis Martin |
| the blonde bombshell | Jo Anne Campbell |
| biggest selling solo artist of any period and biggest star to come from the country | Elvis |
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