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| Nancy (Withe the Laughing Face); Theme from New York, New York |
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| I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man |
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| Tuttie Frutti; I'm Walking; Blueberry Hill |
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| Uptown (Phil Spector Production) |
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| Don't Be Cruel; Hound Dog |
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| Sixty Minute Man; Have Mercy Baby |
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| (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction |
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| Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass |
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| The Lonely Bull; A Taste of Honey |
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| Peggy Sue; That'll Be the Day |
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| Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean |
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| Surfin' USA; Good Vibrations |
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| It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels |
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| I'm so Lonesome, I Could Cry; Hey, Good Lookin' |
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| Rocket 88 (First rock song) |
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| Maybellene; Johhny B. Goode |
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| Please Please Me; A Hard Days Night; Yesterday; Eleanor Rigby |
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| It's Mighty Dark to Travel |
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| You Can't Hurry Love (Motown) |
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| Be My Baby (Phil Spector Production) |
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| "Top 40" Radio Programming |
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| another attempt to control the uncertainty of the marketplace. Developed in the early 1950s by Todd Storz, a disc jockey in Omaha, Nebraska. |
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| record companies paid DJs to put their records into "heavy rotation" |
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| used in recording studios that made higher quality sound |
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| frequency modulation, great sounding radio better than AM |
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| long playing records. 12 inch disks. 20-25 minutes of recordings on each side of record |
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| revolution per minute. Could be stacked and automatically went to next one |
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| helped artists gain national popularity |
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| thousands of teenage girl fans of Sinatra and the Goodman band |
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| Billboard: A music trade journal |
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| an advertisement that appeared in the music trade journal. First ratings of songs like the top 40 |
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| "Rhythm & Blues" and "Country & Western" |
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| new terms used by Billboard as more dignified and up-to-date replacements for "Race" and "Hillbilly," respectively. |
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| first radio station dedicated exclusively to playing music for a black audience. Featuring the popular blues musician and disk jockey B.B. King. |
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| "covering" a song or "cover version" |
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| crucial to the increasing crossover success of black music during the 1950's |
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| the first commercially successful category of rhythm and blues, flourished during and just after WWII. |
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| first used for commercial and generational purposes by disk jockey Alan Freed. Derived from rocking and rollin. Used to describe records. |
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| was an EJ. Got caught up in the payola scandals. Was accepting bribes for playing records on the radio station. First guy to popularize the term, "Rock and Roll." |
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| two versions of the same song sang by two different artists. (Usually white artist covering a black artists song)(whites sold more) |
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| solid-body electric guitar |
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| the first commercially produced was the Fender Broadcaster (soon renamed the Telecaster), a brainchild of Leo Fender and George Fullerton. Was released in 1948, featured two electronic pickups, knobs to control volume and tone (timbre), and a switch that allowed the two pickups to be used alone or together |
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| irst popular non partner dance. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song sin a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple, hip-swiveling dance step that was gaining some popularity among young African Americans. |
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| second artist to come out with the twist. Made it very popular. Covered it. Real name was Ernest Evans. |
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| young people had opportunity to observe dance and songs on it. |
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| had a Number One record as a member of a vocal group, the Teddy Bears, whose hit song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" was also composed and produced by Spector. Record producer who came out with Philles Records and who brought depth of meaning to the phrase "in charge." The wall of sound. |
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| helped establish a new and important model for the production and marketing of pop records. Phil Spector's recording company. |
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| the characteristic Phillies sound was remarkably dense and remarkably clear, and it became known as this. Spector achieved this effect by having multiple instruments- pianos, guitars, and so forth--doubling each individual part in the arrangement, and by using a huge amount of echo, while carefully controlling the overall balance of the record so that the vocals were pushed clearly to the front. |
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| it was at this point that what you bought on a record from a store was much different than what you heard live. Very popular. Recordings varied from concerts to studio, did more in studio (more instruments) |
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| Spector's own preferred recording venue in Los Angeles. The studio musicians with whom Spector worked regularly with at Gold Star Studios came to be known as the "wrecking crew" |
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| the studio musicians with whom Spector worked with regularly at Gold Stat Studios. individually and collectively they made essential contributions to a remarkable number of hit records from the 1960s on. Among the best known of these musicians are Hal Blaine, drummer; Carol Kaye, bassist; and Jack Nitzsche, arranger and percussionist. |
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| created his own songwriting/producing/marketing organization alined lines directly analogous to Philles Records. Created Motown. |
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| songwriting/producing/marketing organization that came to be a success story that surpassed even that of Philles; more importantly it came to be the most stunning success story in the entire history of African American businesses in this country. |
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| Motown's sterling house band. The assured that the highest level of instrumental musicianship was always present to back up and inspire the vocal performers. Bass player James Jamerson, drummer Benny Benjamin, and keyboardist Earl Van Dyke were among the most important contributors to the Motown sound. |
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| formed the Beach Boys with his two brothers, a cousin, and a friend in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. He was the songwriter, arranger, producer, and performer, he was the guiding spirit of the Beach Boys during the first decade of the group's existence, when their artistic and commercial importance and influence were at a peak. |
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| band achieved notational chart hits within a year and thrived right through the period of the "British Invasion" to become not only the bestselling American group of the 1960s but probably the most nationally and internationally celebrated American rock group ever--certainly the one with the longest history of chart success. |
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| second generation rock'n'roller |
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| Brian wilson was the first second-generation rock 'n' roller. He made new group by deliberately moving the lyrics and music of his own songs beyond the territory carved for him. Other second-generation rock 'n' rollers included the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and other bands) |
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| achieved a stable lineup by 1962 consisting of John Lennon and George Harrison (lead and rhythm guitars and vocals), Paul McCartney (bass and vocals), and Ringo Starr (drums and occasional vocals). |
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| included the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Who, the Kinks, and Eric Clapton all remained closer to these roots, on the whole, during their careers than did the Beatles. |
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| an album conceived as an integrated whole, with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence (The listening sequence was easier to mandate, obviously, in the days of long-playing records with two numbered sides, played on phonographs without remote controls, than in today's world of single-sided compacted discs and iPods.) |
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| this music pushed its way onto the pop charts in 1963. The biggest hit was "Watermelon Man," recorded by Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria. |
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| the Brazilian genre which gave rise to mass popularity in the early 1960's. Was a blend of samba rhythms, a sophisticated Brazilian tradition of song composition, and the west coast style of modern jazz, which emphasized relaxed tempos, sophisticated harmonies, and a cool, cerebral emotional atmosphere. |
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| Latin-American stream music. Very popular in the 60's. "The Lonely Bull" is an instructive example of the Tijuana Brass' "Ameriachi" sound. The recordings open with crowd sounds recorded at a bullfight, an audio vert experience meant to temporarily relocate the listener to Mexico. |
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