History Rock and Roll Final/Midterm use F3

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Country

Which musical tradition did Johnny Cash come from?

Not Fade Away

Which of the following Rolling Stones hit was a cover of a Buddy Holly?

The Allman Brothers

Which of the following groups popularized the use of two lead guitar players?

Carol Kaye

Which of the following musicians was the electric bass player for Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew?

Crooners

Teen idols like Pat Boone, Frankie Avalon and Paul Anka sang in a style similar to that of the ____________________ of the previous generation?

True

The American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was responsible for initiating the Payola investigations of 1958.

True

The Blues functioned as a personal expression of an individual who suffered from a lack of human respectability.

Van Halen

The band's guitar player was a classically trained pianist before switching to electric guitar.

12

The blues is typically written in a ______ bar pattern.

Radio Disc Jockeys

The early popularity of Rhythm and Blues among white audiences in the 1950's can be attributed to which of the following?

Payola

The practice where record labels pay radio disc jockeys to play their artists' music on the air is best known as which of the following?

True

The roots of the Blues can be traced back to Arabia, the Middle East and Africa?

Judas Preist

Which of the following Heavy Metal bands influenced many Heavy Metal bands, who came after them by adding a second lead guitarist to the typical band configuration at the time?

The Beach Boys

Which of the following Surf Rock bands was responsible for the album "Pet Sounds" which inspired a Trent of concept albums being made by rock artists, heavily influenced the Beatles' "Sgt. Peppers..." album and changed the trajectory of Rock music production?

Simon and Garfunkel

Which of the following artist never played in a folk-rock group with electric instruments?

Jimi Hendrix

Which of the following artist's cover of a Bob Dylan song became their first top 20 hit in the U.S.?

Marvin Gaye- "What's Going On"

Which of the following artist's songs was a plea for peace in the world and commentary of the Vietnam war and the violence of the civil rights movement?

Little Richard

Which of the following artists are NOT associated with Rockabilly?

The Kingston Trio

Which of the following artists had a hit with a song about a condemned man who killed his lover with a knife?

Bob Dylan

Which of the following artists have had the most covers of their songs recorded by other artists?

Marvin Gaye

Which of the following artists is NOT associated with the Memphis Sound?

James Brown

Which of the following artists is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?

Buddy Holly

Which of the following artists was one of the first Rock guitar players to play a solid electric guitar?

The Temptations

Which of the following artists was one of the first to earn the freedom at Motown to write and produce their recordings themselves?

Bill Haley and the Comets

Which of the following artists/groups is considered the "first international rock stars"?

The Grateful Dead

Which of the following bands are best known for their existence use of improvisation in their live shows?

ZZ Top

Which of the following bands did not follow the two lead guitar player trend popular among southern rock bands?

The Allman Brothers

Which of the following bands featured brother playing Hammond organ and electric guitar?

The Grateful Dead

Which of the following bands had a dedicated groups of fans who became known for following the band around from concert to concert?

Cream

Which of the following bands had a major hit with a sudo-cover of a song by Delta BLues legend Robert Johnson?

The Allman Brothers

Which of the following bands had black and white band members?

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Which of the following bands leads singer dies in an airplane crash in 1977?

Iron Maiden

Which of the following bands took their name from a medieval torture device?

The Eagles

Which of the following bands was NOT from the South?

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Which of the following bands was based in New York

Led Zeppelin

Which of the following bands was formed by musician who had been part of the British blues revival?

The Doors

Which of the following bands was fronted by a singer who saw themselves more as a poet than a musician?

The Who

Which of the following bands was known for smashing their instruments on stage during their performance?

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Which of the following bands wrote a Southern Rock anthem in response to Neil Young's song "Southern Man"?

The Who

Which of the following bands wrote the rock opera "Tommy"?

Urban Blues

Which of the following best exemplifies a Blues style that developed when musicians banded together into small groups instead of just singing and and accompanying themselves on guitars?

Detroit

Which of the following cities synonymous with Motown?

Pete Seeger

Which of the following folk musician's father was a famous musicologist who went around the Appalachians recording folk songs?

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Which of the following folk-rock bands recorded a hit song about the shooting of protestors by the National Guard at Kent State University in 1970?

The Shirelles

Which of the following groups had a hit song about a woman wondering if she sleeps with a romantic partner will he still love her the next day?

Pink Floyd

Which of the following groups started out as a psychedelic band, but eventually became better known as a progressive rock band?

Pete Townshend

Which of the following guitar had a signature move where they put their arm around when they play?

Jimi Hendrix

Which of the following guitar players was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to London, England to form his famous rock trio?

Timothy Leary

Which of the following individuals was most well-known for their promotion and advocacy of the use of LSD?

AC/DC

Which of the following influential Heavy Metal bands was formed in 1973 in Australia?

Doo Wop

Which of the following is a form of music popular in the 1950's that featured vocal groups?(Hint: the name comes from the nonsense words often used by backup singers)

B.B King

Which of the following is an example of an Urban Blues musician?

Dick Dale

Which of the following is known as the "King of Surf Guitar"?

Memphis Sound

Which of the following is synonymous with active bass lines and horn lines where the trumpet and saxophone play in parallel?

Jim Morrison

Which of the following lead singer's chronic drug use prevented their band from going on long concert tours?

Eric Clapton

Which of the following musicians played in all of the following bands: Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith and The Yardbirds?

Phil Spector

Which of the following people were famous for their "Wall of Sound" production style utilizing large numbers of instruments, multi-track recording and orchestral percussion?

Motown

Which of the following record labels was known for toning down its gospel and blues influences to appeal to white audiences?

Help Me

Which of the following songs infuses elements of Jazz with Folk?

Scott Joplin

Which of the following was America's most famous ragtime composer?

T-Bone Walker

Which of the following was among the first musicians to use the electric guitar as a solo Blues instrument?

War

Which of the following was often used as a metaphor by Bob Dylan

Keith Richards

Which of the other members of the Rolling Stones attended primary school with Mick Jagger?

Pat Boone

Which of these artists was famous for their pop ballads and non-offensive covers of Blues and Rhythm and BLues songs?

Brian Jones

Which originals member of the Rolling Stones died in his swimming pool in 1969?

Woody Guthrie

Who did Bob Dylan move to New York to get to know better?

Bob Dylan

Whom of the following acoustic guitar playing and general folk style influential much of the Beatles work in the middle and late sixties?

George Martin

Whom of the following was the Beatles producer responsible for much of their artistic growth in the recording studio?

Berry Gordy jr.

Whom of the following was the founder of Motown?

False

Tin Pan Alley was where Delta Blues originated.

Cream

Which of the following British Psychedelic Blues bands was highly influential to the Hard Rock movement?

True

Many of the well known blues musicians in England in the early to mid sixties changed bands.

James Brown

Mick Jagger's stage performance style can be traced back to which artist?

Rhythm and Blues

"Rock and Roll" is a term that was used to replace which of the following?

False

American garageband the Kingsmen's recordings of "Louie Louie" was about a train conductor?

True

Aretha Franklin started her musical career as a religious gospel singer.

True

Both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones started off as a covered bands in England.

False

Elvis Presley wrote most of his own songs

Hillbilly

Elvis Presley's original recordings were a mix of rock and which other style?

Psychedelic Rock

In many ways Heavy Metal was a reaction against___?

Hamburg

In which German city did the Beatles spend 4 months playing at a club 7 hours a day, 7 days a week in 1960 with their original drummer Pete Best?

True

Many from the south during this period viewed themselves as being very separate/independent from the rest of the country?

True

Most of the British blues covers were not sanitized and counterfeit versions of the blues originals, as were those made by white artists in America during the 50s

True

Much of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal was riff-based

False

Racism did not really play much of a role in the early history of Rock and Roll.

The Funk Brothers

What was the name given to the backup band that played on most of Motown's records?

Newport

Where was it that Bob Dylan famously "went electric" in 1965?

New Orleans

Where was the birthplace of Jazz?

KISS

Which New York based Glam Metal band discussed in CH 12 wore elaborate costumes on stage?

Chuck Berry

Which artist were The Beach Boys found guilty of copying with their famous song "Surfing' U.S.A."?

The Eagles

Which band formed out of the work the founding members were doing with singer Linda Ronstadt?

The Kinks

Which band made the fuzz guitar sound famous?

Jefferson Airplane

Which bands songs from the listening guides in CH 10 uses imagery from a famous book by Lewis Carroll to make reference to the popular drug use in Psychedelic movement?

Sitar

Which classical Indian instrument was played on the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" and the Rolling Stones "Paint It Black"?

LSD

Which drug was most associated with the Psychedelic movement?

Alan Freed

Which famous disk jockey, who was arguably single handedly responsible for the explosive popularity of Rock and Roll, had his career destroyed by the Payola scandal of 1958?

James Taylor

Which folk artist wrote the majority if their introspective album containing their first hit single while in a hospital to recover from a heroine addiction?

Jimi Hendrix

Which guitar player's blues-based psychedelic sound became the model for other guitarists for years to come?

Alice Cooper

Which if the following groups were labeled as "Shock Rock" and had elaborate stage shows that included live snakes, blood and staged executions?

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Which of the following Beatles albums was influenced by the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" released the year prior?


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