History of the rec. Ind. #2
evidence suggests that "Hey Joe" was based on girlfriend Niela Miller's
"Baby, Don't Go Downtown" written in 1955.
widely considered to be the first funk record.
"Cold Sweat" (1967)
first Jimi Hendrix Experience hit
"Hey Joe" in 1967
Carole King was ___ years old when she recorded ______.
"It's Too Late"
James Brown • First hit:
"Please, Please, Please" (1956).
Singer/songwriter Isaac Hayes scored a gold #1 single with
"Theme from Shaft" in 1971.
What's Going on reached _____ on the LP charts
#2
Songs in the Key of life sold more than_______.
10 million copies
After initially disbanding in 1969, Cream reformed in 2005 for a series of sold-out concerts. The American concerts at Madison Square Garden earned a gross income of
10.6 mil
Davis' Bitches Brew involved this amount of musicians
13
this amount of musicians was used to make Bitches Brew
13
hey joe released by Love
14th April, 1966 on the group's debut album.
Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire(1970) sold over 500,000 copies and reached #______ on the Billboard album chart
15
The single Hey Joe by hendrix was released in England on
16th Dec. 1966
Tony Williams began playing with Davis at age _____ and formed Lifetime in 1969
17
Boston's selftitled debut album became an enormous hit in 1976, eventually selling more than
17 mil
The Rumours LP sold
19 million copies sold in America. One of the biggest selling albums of the decade
hendrix Formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience in
1966
hendrix Released Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love in
1967
Featured mainly West Coast artists. "The first huge rock festival." Acts included The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, The Who, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Mamas & the Papas.
1967: Monterey Pop
hendrix Released the double album Electric Ladyland.
1968
hendrix Disbanded the Experience and formed the all-black Band of Gypsys with whom he recorded a live album released in 1970 in
1969
- A concert featuring the Rolling Stones at this speedway resulted in a violent death. Other acts included Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
1969: Altamont
The major 60s pop music festival. Acts included Richie Havens, Santana, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jimi Hendrix.
1969: Woodstock
Earth Wind and Fire • First album (self-titled) released in
1970
carlos santana's Abraxas was made in
1970
hendrix Died in London in September in year
1970
Six corporations sold 80% of records sold by the end of the
1970s
Earth, Wind & Fire Best-selling albums (All triple platinum)
1975: That's the Way of the World 1975: Gratitude 1977: All 'N All
Fleetwood Mac (formed in 1967) • The Rumours LP was released
1977
Led Zeppelin settled out of court in
1985
Mento
19th c to1950s
Experience bassist Noel Redding died in
2003
Buddy Miles, the Band of Gypsys drummer also died in
2008
while the Experience group's drummer,Mitch Mitchell died in
2008
The Rumours LP was at # 1 for
31 weeks
Bitches Brew sold ________ copies in less than a year
400000
Led Zeppelin's plagiarizing of Taurus by Spirit for Stairway to Heaven is worth
560 million, or 10 million per year
ska
59 to 65
Between 1975 and 1980, Bob Marley recorded how many best selling LPs for Island Records including Ratsaman Vibration, which reached #8 on the the Billboard Top LPs charts in 1976
6
Santana's Abraxas held #1 on the LP charts for
6 weeks
Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 at the age of 27 but his copies still sell around
600000 copies a year
rock steady
66 to 68
reggae
68 to present
dancehall
70s to present
Hey Joe released by The Byrds
: Released 27th August, 1966 on their third album, Fifth Dimension, which peaked at #24.
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (1971) -
A fusion of black rock & funk.
• The LP topped the pop album chart in 1974 and yielded the #1 single "Pick Up the Pieces."
AWB
engineered Dark Side of the Moon
Alan Parsons
Songs on Mitchell's Blue album
All I Want My Old Man Carey Little Green The Last Time I Saw Richard
a concert featuring the Rolling Stones at this speed way resulted in a death
Altamont
Scored their first hit in 1972 with "Horse With No Name."
America
Gaye's tracks Wholy Holy and Save the Children inspired covered versions by
Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross
• Utilizing elements of James Brown's style, this all-white funk band from Scotland found success in America with its second album, the self-titled AWB
Average White Band
Led Zeppelin
Band formed in 1968 and featured blues influenced guitar of Jimmy Page
Tony Williams
Began playing with Miles Davis at age 17. Went solo in 1969, forming Lifetime.
Guitarist Nile Rodgers' was also the co-writer and co-producer, and the bassist and cofounder was
Bernard Edwards (d. 1996)
Elton John's song writing partner
Bernie Taupin
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon has the most charted weeks in history of the
Billboard 200 album chart
Hey Joe authorship
Billy Roberts
It became the best selling jazz album in history at that time: 400,000 copies in less than a year.
Bitches Brew
David Bowie died January 2015 after releasing
Blackstar
Joni Mitchell's best known album, recorded by Reprise Records in 1971
Blue
• Led by electronics wizard, songwriter, and guitarist Tom Scholz
Boston
The Wailer's first major concert took place in
Boston 1974
album feature this androgynous canine creature mixed with this music artist
Bowie's Diamond Dogs album 1974
Second album yielded the platinum #1 single "Le Freak."
C'est Chic (1978)
Love's Devotion Surrender
Carlos Santana 1973
I Feel the Earth Move
Carole King 1971
It's Too Late, held #1 spot for 5 weeks
Carole King 1971
Bands began using logos to give their albums brand identity
Chicago (Columbia) and Yes (Atlantic)
Bands that used logos to give their brand identity
Chicago(Columbia) and Yes(Atlantic)
Earth wind and fire was signed to Columbia by him in 1972
Clive davis
In 1970, this records label released Santana's second LP Abraxas
Columbia
Santana's second LP Abraxas was produced by this label
Columbia records
Bob marley formed the Wailers ans signed with
Coxsone Dodd's studios
A British trio featuring Eric Clapton, and the first supergroup.
Cream
this album cover from 1969 captured this group in a location reflecting the character of the music
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
One of pop's most inventive artists and contributed to the 1970s Glam-rock trend
David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie(1972)
Songs Led Zeppelin plagiarized
Dazed and Confused Babe I'm Gonna Leave You The Lemon Song Stairway to Heaven Whole Lotta love
• One of the first African American acts to tour with theatre sets and special effects.
Earth Wind and Fire
Funkadelic guitarist
Eddie Hazel - b.1950-d. 1992
named in Joel Whitburn's Top Pop books as "The #1 pop artist of the 70's" in America
Elton John
Crocodile Rock
Elton John 1972, first of 6 #1 hits during the decade
Jimmy Page honed on his guitar skills from __________ as a successor in a a pioneering British band called the Yardbirds.
Eric Clapton
Time Magazine's Album of the Century
Exodus
David Bowie's first chart topping single in America
Fame 1975
A side project featuring Byrds members.
Flying Burrito Bros
remains the bestselling live album of all-time and was the top-selling LP of 1976, first reaching #1 in April of that yea
Frampton Comes Alive
cream Albums
Fresh Cream (1967) Disraeli Gears (1967) Wheels of Fire (1968) Goodbye (1969)
Santana's Gypsy Queen was composed by
Gabor Szabo
Guitarist for the Eagles that died at the age of 67
Glen Frey
song by Elton John that sold 7 million copies and was the biggest selling studio release. "considered as best LP by him"
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Roger Dean
Graphic artist and designer of several album covers for Yes
John McLaughlin
Guitar - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Not strictly a disco act, but a British-based R&B/funk group that rose to prominence in the disco era with the albums Too Hot To Handle (1976) and Central Heating (1977).
Heatwave
one of the decade's popular albums by the Eagles
Hotel California
Bob Marley covered this Eric Clapton song
I Shot the Sheriff
In 2015, Chic charted for the first time in 22 years with the single
Ill Be There
In 1972, the wailers were eventually signed to
Island Records
Hendrix performed as side man with acts such as
Isley Brothers and Little Richard and others before going solo
had most successful long-running career of the 1970's era singer-songwriters
James Taylor
jazz musicians who played with Davis and later formed their own fusion bands
John McLaughin Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Joe Zawinul Tony Williams
Some jazz musicians who performed with Miles Davis, and later formed their own fusion bands
John McLaughlin Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Joe Zawinul Tony Williams
began her career as a songwriter, placing hit songs for Tom Rush's "The Circle Game" and Judy Collins' "Both Sides Now" and began recording on her own in 1968
Joni mitchell born in 1943
4 students killed protesting against Vietnam War in 1970
Kent State Shootings
Herbie Hancock
Keyboards
Herbie Hancock played this
Keyboards
Chick Corea
Keyboards - Return to Forever
Joe Zawinul
Keyboards - Weather Report
Chick Corea plays this in this band
Keyboards Return to Forever
Joe Zawinul played this in this band
Keyboards Weather Report
made ____ illegal in California on Oct. 6, 1966
LSD
Featured the bass thumping and plucking innovations of
Larry graham
Led Zeppelin's first album
Led Zeppelin 1968
Led Zeppelin's second album
Led Zeppelin II 1969
• In 2014, 30 years after its original release, the Marley compilation_______ reached the Top 10 (after deep discounting by Google Play) to become his highest charting album.
Legend
The group's founder
Maurice White died on 4th February 2016 at the age of 74.
Carlos Santana
Mexican-born rock guitarist who combined rock, jazz, and Afro-Latin elements on influential albums like Abraxas.
Bitches Brew released by Columbia Records
Miles Davis 1970
Festival in 1967 that featured mainly West Coast artists. First huge rock festival
Monterey Pop
Hendrix's performance at the__________ launched the Experience in America.
Monterey Pop Festival (1967
Monophonic electronic device first manufactured in 1964. • The first synthesizer widely used by recording artists, especially in progressive rock.
Moog Synthesizer invvented by Robert (Bob) Moog (1934-2005)
Miles Davis
Most commercially successful jazz musician, Merged jazz and rock to create fusion
Stevie Wonder was successful in his teenage years with ____ in the 1960s
Motown
Songs in the Key of Life was produced by _____ in ________.
Motown Records 1976
produced hit 1980s albums for David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Madonna, among others.
Nile Rogers
Rod Temperton died in
Oct. 2016
The Band of Gypsys album (1970) was recorded to meet legal obligations resulting from a contract signed by Hendrix in 1965 for one dollar from
PPX Enterprises
Began his solo career in 1972 with the reggae hit single, "Mother & Child Reunion."
Paul Simon
Santana's Black Magic Woman was written by this British guitarist, the found of Fleetwood Mac
Peter Green
one of the labels that introduced disco. Gamble & Huff (Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff) were the label's main hit producers & songwriters.
Philadelphia International
In 2015, Rodgers was honored by the Recording Academy's
Producers & Engineers Wing
Only two albums entered the U.S top 30:
Rastaman Vibration (1976) & Exodus (1977).
Elton John's real name
Reginald Dwight
Hey Joe released by Tim Rose
Released as a single in 1966. Issued on an LP in 1967. No chart impact, but heard by Hendrix.
Brown controversially endorsed the presidency of
Republican Richard Nixon whose hostile comments on White House tapes display racism.
The group's best-known hit "Good Times" was from the third Chic LP,
Risqué (1979)
Graphic artist & designer of several album covers for the British progressive rock band Yes that was especially successful in the 1970s.
Roger Dean
Carlos Santana's album _____ reached #4 on the Top LPs chart
Santana
Black Magic Woman
Santana 1970
Oye Como Va
Santana 1970 #13 pop #32 R&B in 1971
The massive 1977 soundtrack album featured the Bee Gees. The double LP spent 24 weeks at #1 on the Billboard album chart.
Saturday Night Fever
Earth Wind and FireThe group's most recent album debuted at #11 on the Billboard album chart in
Sept. 2013
Carole King
Singer-songwriter who wrote many hits in the 1960s with Gerry Goffin.
Hey Joe released by The Leaves
Single released 30th July, 1966, peaking at #31. The first hit version.
• The band sly and the family stone's hit 1969 album was added to the National Recording Registry in 2015.
Stand
A studio-based outfit by the mid-1970s, led by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. • Known for sophisticated jazz/pop stylings and studio production.
Steely Dan
Used innovative use of synthesizers when very few pop artists used them
Stevie Wonder
Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder 1976
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
Stevie Wonder 1979
This production team designed many of rock's most memorable and inventive album covers.
Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell "Hipgnosis"
Jame Taylor's second album
Sweet Baby James 1970
A major hit album which introduced the musical mainstream to the Moog.
Switched on bach by wendy carlos
The band that influenced Stevie Wonder
TONTO's Zero album
Stevie Wonder's Superstition was the first featured single from this album
Talking Book
Carole King's album that was the #1 album for 15 weeks and remained on the charts for 6 years
Tapestry
Carole King's song, produced by A&M records
Tapestry 1971
Garth Brooks named his first child ____ in honor of his favorite song writer
Taylor
Bitches Brew producer
Teo Macero
Davis' record porducer for Bitches Brew
Teo Macero
The first rock band to play the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville
The Byrds
label founded in 1973 with rock group Kiss as its only act, but it soon became an influential and commercially powerful disco label, particularly with singer Donna Summer whose single "Love to Love You Baby" (recorded in Germany) was an international hit.
The Casablanca Records
The cover of Elvis Presley's 1956 debut album was imitated by British punk rock group_________on the cover of the London Calling LP in 1979.
The Clash
Released a 2017 40th Ann. 3-cd box set
The Eagles
Hotel California
The Eagles (1976)
take it easy
The Eagles 1972
Heatwave's latter album featured the massive hit single written by English keyboardist Rod Temperton who later wrote hits such as "Off the Wall," "Rock With You," and "Thriller" for Michael Jackson.
The Groove Line
singer and songwriter Issac Hayes scored a gold #1 single with ______ in 1971
Theme from Shaft
Summer of Love (1967)
Thousands of "flower children" flock to San Francisco and Monterrey for peace demonstrations.
the first hit album for the newly-formed Virgin Records label.
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (1973).
key events in 1968
Vietnam war civil rights student protests assassinations Nixon
3 big hits on Gaye's What's Going On Album
What's Going On Mercy Mercy Me Inner City Blues
Marvin Gaye's best selling LP that fused soul music and gospel
What's Going On 1971
sued Led Zeppelin for plagiarizing his song " You Need Love" from "Whole Lotta Love"
Willie Dixion
a concept album based on founding member Syd Barrett whose LSD addiction led to him being fired from the group in 1968.
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Santana performed at this festival in 1969
Woodstock
major 60s music festival
Woodstock
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album (1974) featured
an androgynous Bowie-canine creature...soon yanked from the shelves of record stores and replaced with a tamer alternative."
Nixon's tapes revealed
anti-Semetism
Led Zepplelin's John Paul Jones is the
bass and organ player
Bitches Brew by Miles Davis became the
best selling jazz album in history at that time
First album released in 1971. The single, "Ain't No Sunshine" went gold.
bill withers
Jamacian musician that leads the Wailers
bob marley
sly and the family stone developed
both black and white audiences.
In January 2015, Sly Stone was awarded $5 million in a
breach of contract lawsuit against his former manager.
Self-titled gold debut album released in 1977 by Atlantic Records
chic
Miles Davis' Bitches brew was released in 1970 by
columbia records
what was Joni Mitchell's Blue album about?
complexities of love
Stevie Wonder successfully did this while keeping a strong African American sound
cross into mainstream rock
Songs in the Key of Life received ______ certification and earned several grammys
diamond
Led Zepplelin's John Bonham is the
drummer
first popular music style to consistently apply the concept of remixing.
dub
The most recent Hendrix release
e live Machine Gun album issued in September 2016, featuring his entire first show with the Band of Gypsys on 31st December, 1969.
The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975
first album to be certified platinum by the RIAA
Carole won
four grammys
John McLaughin plays this in this band
guitar Mahavishnu
Motown owner Berry Gordon initially didn't want to release Marvin Gaye's What's Going On because
he thought it would have no commercial potential
The group recorded the song live in France on 18th October, 1966, before creating a studio version.
hey Joe
Began the 70s with a rock & soul fusion featuring lead guitar influenced by former backing band member Jimi Hendrix. • The group also covered songs by rock artists.
isley brothers
Recognized as the creator of funk. The most sampled artist in popular music.
james brown
"The most original, inventive, and influential guitarist of the rock era." "The most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s."
jimi hendrix
Theme of Dark Side of the Moon
madness and what drives us to it
Stevie Wonder was a major ______, ________, and _______ in the 1970s
multi- instrumentalist, artist and songwriter
was hey Joe first written by hendrix?
no
• His 1976 live double album Frampton Comes Alive followed four studio albums, none of which had been millionselling releases.
peter frampton
Disco shifted the focus to
producers and Djs
Fire and Rain- James Taylor
put on Sweet Baby James album
Dark Side of the Moon
released in 1973 by Pink Floyd
James Taylor's Before This World album
released in 2015 and was his first #1 pop album in America
James Taylor's self debut "James Taylor"
released on the Beatle's Apple Records
Don's Shoot I'm Only The Piano Player
second of seven consecutive million selling number one albums for Elton John
"Dance To The Music" (1968) & "Everyday People" (1969).
sly and the family stone
The music was described as "interracial psychedelic soul" played by a band including women.
sly and the family stone
Tapestry was the only 20th century album by female solo artist to
spend 15 consecutive weeks at #1
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was considered to be one of the most
successful albums in history
Bob Marley is the leader of
the Wailers
• Debut Island Records album from Bob Marley, Catch a Fire (1973), was commercially aimed at
the rock audience
Led Zepplelin's Robert Plant is the
vocalist
debut album cover from 1969 captured the group in a location reflecting the character of the music.
• The Crosby, Stills & Nash