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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
Led to Telecommunications Act |
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How after Payola, big record companies filled the void as rock dies in 50's
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,
Made 'Playlets' = plays/musical like 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 in Girl Groups |
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The Shirelles
The Ronnettes
The Crystals |
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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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"Surf Sound"
Music written by Brian Wilson |
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Known as "king of the surf guitar", pioneered fast solos
"surf Sound" |
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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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Influenced Bob Dylan
Lived in dust bowl/hard times
Cast as protest singer - "This Land is Your Land"
Daughter Nora Guthrie collects music nearly 3000 songs
Almanac Singer |
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Connects early folk revival and 60's
Part of Weavers
"We Shall Over Come" - called communist before House Un-American Activities Committee
Almanac Singer, made Highlander School in Monteagle, TN |
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People coming together to make radical music.
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie |
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Founded by Pete Seeger in Monteagle, TN
Spread "We Shall Over Come" rapidly
Taken over by Guy Carawan |
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| Promoted folk revival in 50-60's |
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Bands infiltrate USA and took over rock charts
Influential to Blues, American Rock&Roll, and Skiffle type music |
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Evolved from Quarrymen created by John Lennon
Opened door for Euro bands into America
Paul McCartney - most famous song writer of all time, John Lennon, George Harrison 'quiet beatle', Ringo Starr-sex symbol/drummer
George Martin - producer, kept band in line
With Dylan, made rock more mature and widely listened to.
Dylan introduced to weed/drug culture
"Rubber Soul" - '65 considered coming of age album. Album oriented.
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"British Blues Revival" - blues roots
Named after Muddy Waters song
Richards/Jagger - together through blues, songwriting team
Recorded Chess Records, had alter ego of Beatles- sex, rougher image
Andrew Oldham - manager gave them dirtier look |
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Also came out of the "British Blues Revivial"
Evolved from Yardbirds (w/ J Paige and Beck) left for electric blues
Then forms Cream - power trio, long solos "Blind Faith"
Also fascianted with Robert Johnson- ie "Crossroads" |
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In New York, many prominant stars lived here
Bob Dylan & Peter, Paul, and Mary & Joan Baez
Known for folk singers |
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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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The Byrds -
Simon and Garfunkel - |
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Founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit
75% of everything they did hit the charts
Black owned, black run company. If writer wrote hit they could keep going if not they were let go.
Motown formula/success - Took soul sound and cleaned it up for a white audience, caused some controversy in the soul community
Maxine Powell - taught artist to act proper
Shyed away from contoversie
Holland, Dozier and Holland (HDH), Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Temptations, Jackson Five, Marvin Gaye
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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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| Holland, Dozier and Holland |
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H-D-H, wrote 25 #1 songs, mainly love songs
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| Sang "Heat Wave" written by HDH |
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| Sang "Baby Love" also HDH almost identicle to "Heat Wave" |
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| HDH songs, Highly Choreographed, "My Girl" |
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Last of very choreographed groups from Motown
Micheal Jackson - 11yrs old "ABC-123" |
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"Through the Grapevine"
War songs more contoversial, created mixed songs before DJ's made popular |
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Probably extra credit - John Myers and brother album
Lived in knox - doo woop hits
used and abused by Motown, tricked into losing ownership of songs |
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Jerry Wexler - coined term rythm&blues took over in '53
Stax - small Memphis based record co.
Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions" #1 on R&B and #3 on Pop charts for 16 weeks, sold 1million copies
Muscle Shoals, AL - Atlantic used FAME Studios located here.
Wilson Picket - R&B/Soul singer recorded at stax
Otis Redding - "these arms of mine" recorded at Stax
Aretha Franklin - Tremendous success with Stax records/FAME gospel roots |
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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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Haight Ashbury - "Summer of Love" hippies flocked, Oct. 6 1967 "Death of the Hippie," official end/mock funeral.
Anti-authoritarianism - unity..hippie
Roll of psychedelic drugs in music scene - lots of experiementing, LDS shrooms..
Influence of the Beat Generation - Post WWII writers, exp with drugs sexuality & materialism
Monterey International Pop Festival - Hendrix, Joplin, Otis Redding. (Beah Boys sched. to close event, couldn't settle band disputes so didn't play) |
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Brough trippie music mainstream.
Played with Greatful Dead, part of Haight Ashbury
Grace Slick - women lead singer 1st in front of rock bands, 2 top hits. |
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Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters - heavily used psychedelic drugs, motto - never trust a prankster.
Made LSD more popular, used inprov. in long live songs
Jerry Garcia - lead singer/guitar
Part of Haight Ashbury. |
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Prominent blues women singer, very loud voice, very promiscuous.
Lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company
Part of Haight Ashbury.
Died at 27 drug OD |
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New York City folk group founed by Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie
Specialized in topical leftist songs |
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Group popular in the Folk Revival
"Tom Dooley" sold millions |
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Folk singer, mostly topical songs
Covered many songs and helped bring Bob Dylan to promenence |
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3 Day Music festival in California
Regarded as one of the beginnings of the "summer of love"
Template for all festivals after |
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