Music 351 Motown Final - Quiz Answers
The Commodores
"Brick House" is a song by:
True
Malcom Cecil and Robert Margouleff co-produced Stevie Wonder's albums Innervisions and Talking Book.
False
Marvin Gaye had a lot of material ready to be recorded for a full album after the song "What's Going On" came out.
A musical co-produced by Motown
Pippin is:
True
Psychedelic means mind-manifesting.
False
According to Norman Whitfield and the Temptations, "Cloud Nine" is about drugs
True
After moving Motown to Los Angeles, Berry Gordy was focused on making films and television shows.
False (the dude hated it)
Berry Gordy loved the single "What's Going On" and released it right away.
False
A characteristic of funk is an emphasis on melody
A drone
A sustained note or chord that underlies an entire work is called:
False
Bubblegum Pop is music about candy
The Pips are Gladys Knight's brothers and cousins
Choose the answer that best describes the relationship between Gladys Knight and the Pips
arranger
David Van de Pitts's function on the recording of What's Going On was?
False
Guitarist Jeff Beck recorded "Superstition" before Stevie Wonder
False
Like Motown, Chess Records was a black-owned business
False
Norman Whitfield embraced the psychedelic sound of such groups as Sly and the Family Stone right away.
True
Norman Whitfield often "recycled" songs, having more than one artist record the same songs.
True
The Funk Brothers were credited individually by name for the first time on What's Going On.
False
The Gladys Knight and the Pips version of 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine" was recorded first.
True
The album What's Going On is unified musically and lyrically.
False
The first recordings the Jackson 5 released were on the Motown label
sitar
The instrument that Ravi Shankar plays is
False
The mellotron is a string instrument
True
The name of Stax Records is a conjunction of the two owner's names.
They were all teen/pre-teen groups
What do the The Five Stairsteps, The Osmonds, The Jackson 5, and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers have in common?
The Vietnam War
Which conflict was raging when the song "War" came out?
The Four Tops
Which group (whose member wrote "What's Going On"") did NOT want to record it?
The Originals
Which group did Marvin Gaye produce before he produced his own album?
The Temptations
Which group recorded "War" before Edwin Starr?
Jackson 5
Which group sings backing vocals on the song "You Haven't Done Nothing"?
Stax
Which label did Sam and Dave record for?
George Harrison
Which of the Beatles studied with Ravi Shankar?
Stevie Wonder
Which of the following artists stayed the longest with the Motown label?
Otis Redding
Which of the following artists was NOT associated with Chess Records?
orchestral accompaniment
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of psychedelic rock?
Smokey Robinson
Which of the following people was NOT a member of the Corporation?
"Blowin' in the Wind"
Which of the following songs inspired Sam Cooke to write "A Change is Gonna Come?"
Classical
Which of the following styles is NOT an element of funk?
employment
Which of the following was NOT an immediate concern of the counterculture movement?
TONTO
______ is the acronym for a collection of synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder to record four albums in the early 1970s.
