History of Pop Music

During the 1980's there was a "2nd British Invasion". The most popular of these bands was___________ and had hits like "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Rio"

Duran Duran

This Motown artist was blind and wrote many hits from the 1960's thru the 1990's, such as "I Was Made To Love Her" and "Superstitious"

Stevie Wonder

The #1 female Motown Group featuring Diana Ross was called?

Supremes

In December of 1969, The Rolling Stones held a free concert in California. They hired the Hell's Angels to police the event. 4 births and 4 deaths took place at this show.

Altamont

A song written by artist Don McLean about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper who all died in the same plane crash, with the quote :The Day The Music Died" is titled:

American Pie

This artist is considered the greatest voice of American Traditional Music of the 1940's-1960's. You can hear him sing many Christmas classics on the radio during the holiday's.

Andy Williams

This band released the album "Pet Sounds" in 1966 which is considered one of the greatest musical works to this day.

Beach Boys

The founder of Motown

Berry Gordy jr.

The most famous female Blues artist during the 1920's and 1930's was

Bessie Smith

This musical genius was the leader and song writer of the Beach Boys

Brian Wilson

An incredible song writer who wrote hits for many artists such as the Monkees and Aretha Franklin. She is considered to be the greatest of all female songwriters of the 20th Century. She wrote songs such as "It's Too Late" and "I Feel The Earth Move"

Carol King

African American Rock musician who wrote all of his own songs and inspired many artist of the British Invasion. He had hit songs such as "Johnny B. Goode" and "Rock and Roll Music" which the Beatles covered.

Chuck Berry

During the late 1970's this style of dance music became very popular. It didn't last long and people really began to hate it.

Disco

The lead singer of the 4 Seasons was

Frankie Vallie

1970's artists who wore make-up and dressed in drag were considered:

Glam Rock

Considered by many to be the greatest guitar player of all time:

Jimi Hendrix

These 2 artists wrote over 200 great songs together in approximately 8 years for the Beatles and other artists as well

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

This band Rocked the 1970's with great songs such as "Stairway to Heaven" and Whole Lotta Love".

Led Zeppelin

This man was the pioneer Blues artist who was the 1st to go electric with drums, bass, and amplified vocals and guitars. His work was inspirational and many of his songs were covered by Rock musicians and many British Invasion acts.

Muddy Waters

This band made a huge impact on music in the early 90's with songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come As You Are"

Nirvana

This Artist of the 1980's was a musical genius who played multi instruments. He was an exceptional guitar player and had hits such as "Purple Rain" and "1999"

Prince

Scott Joplin wrote the "Entertainer". He was the greatest composer of what type of music?

Ragtime

This musician is considered "King of the Delta Blues"

Robert Johnson

Beethoven was from what era?

Romantic

This group brought Hip Hop to the main stream in the mid 1980's when the released a music video of "Walk This Way" on MTV with Aerosmith

Run-DMC

This man wrote many of the early hits for Motown artists such as "My Girl" for the Temptations

Smokey Robinson

This band is considered the most influential group in the history of popular music

The Beatles

This Band began in the late 1970's and became one of the greatest acts during the 1980's. They had a prodigy guitar player named Eddie and had hits such as "Unchained" and "Jump"

Van Halen

Jazz jams are free form based, known as

improvisation

All of these are instruments have been used in performing jazz except

sitar