MUS 225 Exam 2 Practice Questions
Which guitarist and songwriter worked with the Chicago-based group the Impressions?
Curtis Mayfield
Motown Records was founded in what city?
Detroit, MI
Paul Revere and the Raiders became musical hosts of Where the Action is, a variety rock show created by
Dick Clark
The Four Seasons were known for
Doo-wop style vocals
What recording studio, owned and operated by Rick Hall, was located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama?
Fame
Donovan was best known for what style of music in the 1960s?
Folk Rock
Who was the lead vocalist of the Four Seasons, known for his falsetto singing?
Frankie Valli
The Kingsmen, Cannibal and the Headhunters, and the Mysterians could all be categorized as
Garage bands
The song "White Rabbit" was written by this lead singer of Jefferson Airplane.
Grace Slick
Which band, featuring guitarist Jerry Garcia, originally formed in the Bay Area as the Warlocks?
Grateful Dead
What was Motowns studio called?
Hitsville, USA
Which songwriting team produced a string of hits for Motown between 1963 and 1967?
Holland-Dozier-Holland
What band established musical elements that would become characteristic of heavy metal on albums such as In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida?
Iron Butterfly
The Flames were the backing group for
James Brown
Which artist had a chart hit with "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" in 1968?
James Brown
Which artist started his career singing doo-wop and performing as a stand-in for Little Richard?
James Brown
Which Atlantic Records executive and producer played an important role in developing southern soul music in the 1960s?
Jerry Wexler
This lead singer of The Doors introduced an alter ego, the Lizard King.
Jim Morrison
Which artist gained popularity performing live shows in Los Angeles at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go, where he also made a live album?
Johnny Rivers
A series of psychedelic events called "acid tests" were arranged by
Ken Kesey
San Francisco disc jockey Tom Donahue was among the first to
Launch a successful free-form radio show on FM
The Red Bird music label was founded by
Leiber and Stoller
The UFO Club, which hosted psychedelic gatherings, was located in
London
Like many folk rock groups, the Mamas and the Papas migrated from New York to
Los Angeles
The album Forever Changes was recorded by
Love
The Byrds' recording of the song "Mr. Tambourine Man" featured all of the following EXCEPT
Lyrics by Art Garfunkel
Stax Records was located in what city?
Memphis
Where was Bob Dylan originally from?
Minnesota
Maxine Powell ran a finishing school for artists signed to which record label?
Motown
The Funk Brothers were the studio band for
Motown
The Temptations recorded for
Motown
In 1966, the Lovin' Spoonful was based in
New York
The distinctive sound of Stax recordings, heard in records such as, "In the Midnight Hour", was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
Orchestral strings
All of the following artists were signed to Motown Records in the 1960s, EXCEPT
Otis Redding
Who wrote the song "Respect"?
Otis Redding
All of the following bands were fictional groups made for television, EXCEPT
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Tom and Jerry was an early name used by
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
Which influential 1966 Beach Boys album set a new standard for record production and musical sophistication?
Pet Sounds
The Righteous Brothers "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin" and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" were produced by
Phil Spector
What songwriting team wrote hits for many of Stax's recording artists?
Porter and Hayes
Aretha Franklin's father was a
Prominent clergyman
Which of these British groups was best known in the United States during the psychedelic era?
Rolling Stones
Which vocal duo was loaned by Atlantic Records to Stax, where they recorded "You Don't Know Like I Know" and "Hold On, I'm Comin"?
Sam and Dave
Haight-Ashbury is a neighborhood in
San Francisco
This album is often cited as the first concept album in rock.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The song "Baby Love", made famous by the Supremes, is in what form?
Simple verse
Instead of releasing the album SMiLE, the Beach Boys released
Smiley Smile
Which lead singer of the group the Miracles took on many songwriting and production duties at Motown Records?
Smokey Robinson
In addition to their hit singles , which artists were known for their outlandish hippie fashions
Sonny and Cher
Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton formed which record label?
Stax
Which artist, blind from birth, had a surprise number-one hit at the age of thirteen with "Fingertips, pt. 2"?
Stevie Wonder
In December of 1964, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys
Stopped touring
The Monkees were created by
Television producers
After a motorcycle crash in 1966, Bob Dylan recorded extensively with this mainly Canadian group
The Band
All of the following bands were active in the London psychedelic scene EXCEPT
The Band
Which of the following bands was formed in Los Angeles?
The Doors
Whose version of "Louie Louie" was investigated by the FCC for profanity?
The Kingsmen
What was the first major international rock festival, held in the spring of 1967?
The Monterey International Pop Festival
Which was the New York-based band that emerged from rhythm and blues clubs that opened for the Beatles in 1965?
The Rascals
The 1969 music festival at Altamont Speedway, viewed by many as the end of the hippie era, was organized by
The Rolling Stones
Which successful vocal group was formed by Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard in Detroit in 1959?
The Supremes
"Turn on, tune in and drop out" was the advice of this proponent of LSD, who once taught at Harvard
Timothy Leary
After leaving the Spencer Davis Group, British musician Steve Winwood formed what band?
Traffic
Dylan's early lyrics addressed social injustice, and were modeled on those of his idol
Woody Guthrie
Jimi Hendrix was known for all of the following EXCEPT
a long career lasting into the 1980s
"Sunshine of Your Love" is largely based on
a single riff
Bob Dylan generated controversy at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 when he
played with electric instruments
"Positively 4th Street" is constructed in what form?
simple verse
The Byrds wrote
some of their own music
Vee-Jay released records by
the Beatles and the Four Seasons
Singer and songwriter John Phillips wrote many hits for his folk-rock group
the Mamas and the Papas
This 1964 book, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, connected psychedelic drugs with eastern spirituality.
the Psychedelic Experience
The compilation album Nuggets, assembled by guitarist Lenny Kaye in the early 1970s, documented
the garage rock movement of the 1960s
Before creating the duo of Sonny and Cher, Sonny Bono
worked closely with Phil Spector
The Monkees' early songs were mainly
written for them by professional songwriters
What was the name of the record label formed by the Beatles?
Apple
After producing her first records for Columbia, Aretha Franklin was signed by what label in 1966?
Atlantic
Stax Records licensed music to what larger company in the 1960s?
Atlantic
The summer of 1967 was known as the
"Summer of Love"
What was Simon and Garfunkel's first major hit song?
"The Sounds of Silence"
What was the record label formed by Bert Berns with his bosses from Atlantic Records, Ahmet and Neshui Ertegun and Jerry Wexler?
Bang!
Where were Country Joe and the Fish most active?
Berkeley
Who was the founder of Motown Records?
Berry Gordy Jr.
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was held in
Bethel, NY
Janis Joplin got her start performing with which band?
Big Brother and the Holding Company
What was the name of the studio band at Stax?
Booker T. and the MGs
The recording of "Good Vibrations" was produced by
Brian Wilson
Pop music aimed at young teens was sometimes called
Bubblegum music
Which Chicago-based label, known for its electric blues and rock and roll records in the 1950s was still active in producing black pop in the 1960s?
Chess
This supergroup was made up of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker.
Cream
