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The fastest rising radio format of the 1970s, playing the music of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston, Foreigner, and Styx was called: |
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AOR (Album Oriented Radio) |
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Who was the British act that relocated to California, changed personnel and released an album that was in the top position of the Bilboard charts for 31 weeks? |
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The Carpenters, Barbara Streisand, and Neil Diamond records usually fall into what musical category? |
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Which MOR format act had their first chart hit with a newer version of Bacharach's and David's Close To You? |
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Which 2 people teamed up to compose the musicals Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita? |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice |
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What does "MOR" stand for? |
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What artist sold the most hit singles in the 1970s? |
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During what year did the Jackson Five have four Number One hit singles? |
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When did the Jackson Five sign to Motown? |
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What was Motown's last super-group? |
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Which artist gained control over his recording projects during a contract renewal, and released two albums in 1972 that resulted in 5 Grammy Award wins? |
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What Motown artist broke from the label's traditional use of pro-songwriters and producers, and self-produced a record reflecting life and hope in the black community against Barry Gordy's advice? |
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What event initiated a more focused, sober realism in R&B and soul music in the late 1960s and early 1970s? |
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Death of Martin Luther King Jr. |
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What singer repeatedly hit the 1970s soul charts with smoothly arranged string and horn driven tracks, and became a minister in his own Memphis church while still cutting soul records? |
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Which soul artist was in a group that openly sang about civil rights in the 1960s, and became a hit solo artist when he defined the morality of a Chicago drug dealer in a movie soundtrack? |
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What R&B Philidelphia production team wrote songs with a straight, danceable beat, lush arrangement, and catchy, soulful singing for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blues Notes, and others that would become popular in New York clubs as the signature "disco" sound? |
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Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff |
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Who revolutioned dance venues by using music to create a meditative environment, rather than a vehicle for selling alcohol? |
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What musical trend originated the commercialy released 12-inch single, making room for extended mixes that included instrumental breaks? |
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Which producer brought Donna Summer to the U.S. Top 10 with a dance track that heavily employed synthesizers, creating the signature Euro-disco sound? |
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Trevor Hastings is a ________ |
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faggot. .... we were looking for faggot. |
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Which club's theme parties and celebrity focus made going to a disco a media/fashion event, rather than a musical event in 1977? |
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What movie inspired the disco craze that swept the nation in 1977? |
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William Sharkey has a _________ |
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tiny penis. .... we were looking for the tiny penis. (no pun intended) |
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What year was George Clinton's DooWop group, The Parliaments, founded? |
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What artist and producer's own hard funk acts started to have chart hits after incorporating members of James Brown's JBs? |
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Which two artists performed AfroCentric poetry on records - an important 1960s and 1970s precursor to the social themes in rap music? |
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Last Poet and The Black Panthers |
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Who added poetry to jazz and soul, creating the protest masterpiece The Revolution Will Not Be Televised? |
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What NYC neighborhood became the main home for Puerto Ricans settling in the U.S., and spawned a musical fusion of funk, soul, and rock with Latin sounds? |
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El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) |
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Stephan Cotterell likes to _______ |
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suck big dick. ... we were looking for suck big dick. |
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What record label, begun by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Macsucci in 1964, recorded New York salsa musicians such as Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, and Eddie Palmeri? |
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Which Jamaican pop style directly replaced ska when artists slowed down the tempos, and singers were able to croon over more syncopated grooves? |
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Which producer owned the Downbeat sound system, Studio One Records and was the first to record The Wailers, yeilding over 100 of their tracks? |
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To what societal group did The Wailers direct their first Jamaican hit song, Simmer Down? |
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Kingston's rude-boy culture |
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Which combonation of vocalists wrote and sang for The Wailers at the time they were first signed to Island Records? |
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Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Jimmy Cliff |
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Which Jamaican engineer recorded the first hit singles by a toasting DJ and made significant engineering and remixing contributions to the dub style? |
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Mark Nikollaj likes to _________ |
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suck fat, juicy, hairy, moldy, smelly, disgusting vagina. ... we were looking for suck fat, juicy, hairy, moldy, smelly, disgusting vagina. |
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Who was one of The Wailer's producers and was known as the "Phil Spector of reggae" due to his wild engineering experiments? |
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Where did Rap/Hip-Hop originate? |
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Who was the graffiti-ing Jamaican transplant to the South Bronx that introduced the combined concept of DJing repeated "breaks" for break dancers while MCing through his own party crew? |
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What Bronx DJ is first credited with repeating the rhythm break section using two copies of the same record to facilitate break dance routines? |
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What DJ is first credited with back-timing and backspinning to repeat-play a section of music without losing the beat? |
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Which two Bronx DJs claimed to have invented the scratch technique? |
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Grand Wizard Theodore and Grandmaster Flash |
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What German electronic band blended electronic beats with minimalism, becoming the single most influence on electronic dance and electro to this day? |
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What are the commonly noted elements that compromise Hip Hop culture? |
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Music of the DJ, the creative athleticism of the breakdance crews, and brilliant graffiti hit and run artists |
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What is the name of the famous NY Bowery bar known to this day for birthing the US punk scene? |
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Which performing poet act signed to Clive Davis's Arista label after he witnessed a series of concerts at CBGB? |
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Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage and went on to have four number one singles in the US charts? |
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Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage, hired Brian Eno to produce them, using Eno's influence to incorporate funk and African music to their initial styles? |
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Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage and created a music formula that is most identifiable with what is known as punk rock music to this day? |
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What act was the first of the punk era bands on the CBGB stage and recorded Marquee Moon - a record commonly regarded as on the 10 best rock records of the 1970s? |
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Who was the Sex Pistols manager, who picked up fashion and attitude cues from New York's CBGB bands? |
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What British punk band opened for the Sex Pistols "Anarchy of the UK" tour, later finding their American fame culminating in a US Top 10 single and a live performance at Shea Stadium? |
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What was the name of Malcolm McLaren's fashion store in London? |
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What were we really looking forrr for all the answers ? |
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Luke's GAY! Im afraid we found it and the search is over judges yes luke's gay thats exactly what we were looking for !
marknikollaj.com |
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