Rock and Roll Chapter 2
Who was the New Orleans-based pianist and singer who had more than thirty Top 40 hits, including "Blueberry Hill"?
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry's crossover hit "Maybellene" was his version of a country tune called
Ida Red
Which of the following singers, signed to RCA Records just after Elvis Presley, was marketed as the "female Elvis"?
Janie Martin
Who was the artist who cowrote and first recorded the song "Tutti Frutti"?
Little Richard
Which artists were early rock and roll performers known for their manic piano playing and wild stage personas?
Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis
Where was Sun Records located?
Memphis
Which singer performed a cover of Fats Domino's "Ain't It a Shame," retitled "Ain't That a Shame," which outperformed the original on the pop charts?
Pat Boone
Sam Phillips sold Elvis's contract to
RCA
Rockabilly arrangements tended not to use
drums
After World War II, teenagers
had their own pop culture
As a songwriter, Chuck Berry appealed to teenagers by doing all of the following EXCEPT
incorporating sexually explicit lyrics
In 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis's career stalled due to a scandal surrounding his
marriage
The opening guitar solo of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" uses double stops, a technique that involves
playing two notes at the same time
Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran are associated with what style of music?
rockabilly
In addition to being a performer, Buddy Holly was an influential
songwriter
Buddy Holly's band, which recorded the hit "That'll Be the Day," was called
the Crickets
Payola refers to
the practice of giving DJs gifts or cash to play records on the radio.
Record popularity charts were created to
help industry radicals change the system
During the payola scandals, there was a struggle between which two organizations that collected royalties for songwriters?
ASCAP and BMI
Which celebrity DJ, who started out playing rhythm and blues records on a Cleveland radio station, was influential in bringing rock and roll into the mainstream?
Alan Freed
"That's All Right (Mama)" was written by
Arthur Crudup
Which of the following films used Bill Haley's song "(We're Gonna) Rock around the Clock" over the opening credits?
Blackboard Jungle
Carl Perkins's biggest hit for Sun Records was
"Blue Suede Shoes"
Which singer began recording rockabilly songs like "Bigelow 6-200" before the age of thirteen?
Brenda Lee
All of the following artists recorded for Sun Records, EXCEPT
Buddy Holly - Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis did record for Sun Records
On February 3, 1959, known as the "The Day the Music Died,"
Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash
Which two high-profile music industry professionals were questioned by a congressional committee during the payola investigations?
Dick Clark and Alan Freed
By the early 1960s, Elvis Presley had
a broader appeal
In the 1950s, pop covers of rhythm and blues songs
benefited mainly record companies and white performers
When a record holds a prominent position on more than one popularity chart (for example, the pop chart and the rhythm and blues chart), this is known as
crossover