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