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| Reasons for Death of Rock n Roll |
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Elvis joins army
Little Richard went to church
Chuck Berry arrested for teenage girls
Jerry Lee Lewis marries 13 y/o cousin
Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash |
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Record companies paid DJs for airtime
Big record companies felt threatened, go after the DJ's
Alan Freed gets in trouble while Dick Clark gets off |
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How after Payola, big record companies filled the void
Christian, white teen boys like Frankie Avalon |
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Host of American Bandstand,
Owned publishing companies, played artists he published |
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Very important songwriters wrote Hound Dog, music for Elvis,
Applied Tin Pan Alley Pop for black bands
Wrote songs for the clovers/drifters |
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Songwriting factory for black music, publishing house
Carol King/Goffin were a married couple here, wrote 23 top 10 hits, mostly wrote for young black women |
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Like the Beatles, fascinated w/ American music
Heavy blues roots
Came to America in 1964, got really popular
Set themselves up as the Beatles alter ego- more improvised, rough around the edges
Jagger/Richards were a prolific songwriting team |
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Also came out of the British Blues Revivial
started out playing with Yardbirds (w/ J Paige and Beck), forms Cream
Also fascianted with Robert Johnson- ie "Crossroads" |
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Very inspired by Woody Guthrie
Got pinned as a protest singer, but tried to avoid being pigeonholed
Eventually "plugged in" took people a while to like him in an electric full band setting-(At Newport Folk Festival) |
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arguably created the classic soul style
Uses gospel elements, adds non-religious lyrics
called "the genius of soul" |
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"Sweet Soul" had a bit more of a pop orientation, less gritty
used to be a gospel singer |
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Known as "the hardest working man in show business"--gave his all on stage
Progressed from soul to funk and may have even inspired some early hip hops |
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Started a company out of a house called "Hitsville USA"- produced Motown music
75% of everything they did hit the charts
Black owned, black run company
Took soul sound and cleaned it up for a white audience, caused some controversy in the soul community (The Motown formula and success) |
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| Music producer famous for creaing the "wall of sound"- a dense reverberated sound that comes across well on AM and jukeboxes |
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| Known as "king of the surf guitar", pioneered fast solos |
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