History of the rec. Ind. #2

evidence suggests that "Hey Joe" was based on girlfriend Niela Miller's

"Baby, Don't Go Downtown" written in 1955.

widely considered to be the first funk record.

"Cold Sweat" (1967)

first Jimi Hendrix Experience hit

"Hey Joe" in 1967

Carole King was ___ years old when she recorded ______.

"It's Too Late"

James Brown • First hit:

"Please, Please, Please" (1956).

Singer/songwriter Isaac Hayes scored a gold #1 single with

"Theme from Shaft" in 1971.

What's Going on reached _____ on the LP charts

#2

Songs in the Key of life sold more than_______.

10 million copies

After initially disbanding in 1969, Cream reformed in 2005 for a series of sold-out concerts. The American concerts at Madison Square Garden earned a gross income of

10.6 mil

Davis' Bitches Brew involved this amount of musicians

13

this amount of musicians was used to make Bitches Brew

13

hey joe released by Love

14th April, 1966 on the group's debut album.

Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire(1970) sold over 500,000 copies and reached #______ on the Billboard album chart

15

The single Hey Joe by hendrix was released in England on

16th Dec. 1966

Tony Williams began playing with Davis at age _____ and formed Lifetime in 1969

17

Boston's selftitled debut album became an enormous hit in 1976, eventually selling more than

17 mil

The Rumours LP sold

19 million copies sold in America. One of the biggest selling albums of the decade

hendrix Formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience in

1966

hendrix Released Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love in

1967

Featured mainly West Coast artists. "The first huge rock festival." Acts included The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, The Who, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Mamas & the Papas.

1967: Monterey Pop

hendrix Released the double album Electric Ladyland.

1968

hendrix Disbanded the Experience and formed the all-black Band of Gypsys with whom he recorded a live album released in 1970 in

1969

- A concert featuring the Rolling Stones at this speedway resulted in a violent death. Other acts included Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

1969: Altamont

The major 60s pop music festival. Acts included Richie Havens, Santana, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jimi Hendrix.

1969: Woodstock

Earth Wind and Fire • First album (self-titled) released in

1970

carlos santana's Abraxas was made in

1970

hendrix Died in London in September in year

1970

Six corporations sold 80% of records sold by the end of the

1970s

Earth, Wind & Fire Best-selling albums (All triple platinum)

1975: That's the Way of the World 1975: Gratitude 1977: All 'N All

Fleetwood Mac (formed in 1967) • The Rumours LP was released

1977

Led Zeppelin settled out of court in

1985

Mento

19th c to1950s

Experience bassist Noel Redding died in

2003

Buddy Miles, the Band of Gypsys drummer also died in

2008

while the Experience group's drummer,Mitch Mitchell died in

2008

The Rumours LP was at # 1 for

31 weeks

Bitches Brew sold ________ copies in less than a year

400000

Led Zeppelin's plagiarizing of Taurus by Spirit for Stairway to Heaven is worth

560 million, or 10 million per year

ska

59 to 65

Between 1975 and 1980, Bob Marley recorded how many best selling LPs for Island Records including Ratsaman Vibration, which reached #8 on the the Billboard Top LPs charts in 1976

6

Santana's Abraxas held #1 on the LP charts for

6 weeks

Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 at the age of 27 but his copies still sell around

600000 copies a year

rock steady

66 to 68

reggae

68 to present

dancehall

70s to present

Hey Joe released by The Byrds

: Released 27th August, 1966 on their third album, Fifth Dimension, which peaked at #24.

Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (1971) -

A fusion of black rock & funk.

• The LP topped the pop album chart in 1974 and yielded the #1 single "Pick Up the Pieces."

AWB

engineered Dark Side of the Moon

Alan Parsons

Songs on Mitchell's Blue album

All I Want My Old Man Carey Little Green The Last Time I Saw Richard

a concert featuring the Rolling Stones at this speed way resulted in a death

Altamont

Scored their first hit in 1972 with "Horse With No Name."

America

Gaye's tracks Wholy Holy and Save the Children inspired covered versions by

Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross

• Utilizing elements of James Brown's style, this all-white funk band from Scotland found success in America with its second album, the self-titled AWB

Average White Band

Led Zeppelin

Band formed in 1968 and featured blues influenced guitar of Jimmy Page

Tony Williams

Began playing with Miles Davis at age 17. Went solo in 1969, forming Lifetime.

Guitarist Nile Rodgers' was also the co-writer and co-producer, and the bassist and cofounder was

Bernard Edwards (d. 1996)

Elton John's song writing partner

Bernie Taupin

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon has the most charted weeks in history of the

Billboard 200 album chart

Hey Joe authorship

Billy Roberts

It became the best selling jazz album in history at that time: 400,000 copies in less than a year.

Bitches Brew

David Bowie died January 2015 after releasing

Blackstar

Joni Mitchell's best known album, recorded by Reprise Records in 1971

Blue

• Led by electronics wizard, songwriter, and guitarist Tom Scholz

Boston

The Wailer's first major concert took place in

Boston 1974

album feature this androgynous canine creature mixed with this music artist

Bowie's Diamond Dogs album 1974

Second album yielded the platinum #1 single "Le Freak."

C'est Chic (1978)

Love's Devotion Surrender

Carlos Santana 1973

I Feel the Earth Move

Carole King 1971

It's Too Late, held #1 spot for 5 weeks

Carole King 1971

Bands began using logos to give their albums brand identity

Chicago (Columbia) and Yes (Atlantic)

Bands that used logos to give their brand identity

Chicago(Columbia) and Yes(Atlantic)

Earth wind and fire was signed to Columbia by him in 1972

Clive davis

In 1970, this records label released Santana's second LP Abraxas

Columbia

Santana's second LP Abraxas was produced by this label

Columbia records

Bob marley formed the Wailers ans signed with

Coxsone Dodd's studios

A British trio featuring Eric Clapton, and the first supergroup.

Cream

this album cover from 1969 captured this group in a location reflecting the character of the music

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

One of pop's most inventive artists and contributed to the 1970s Glam-rock trend

David Bowie

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie(1972)

Songs Led Zeppelin plagiarized

Dazed and Confused Babe I'm Gonna Leave You The Lemon Song Stairway to Heaven Whole Lotta love

• One of the first African American acts to tour with theatre sets and special effects.

Earth Wind and Fire

Funkadelic guitarist

Eddie Hazel - b.1950-d. 1992

named in Joel Whitburn's Top Pop books as "The #1 pop artist of the 70's" in America

Elton John

Crocodile Rock

Elton John 1972, first of 6 #1 hits during the decade

Jimmy Page honed on his guitar skills from __________ as a successor in a a pioneering British band called the Yardbirds.

Eric Clapton

Time Magazine's Album of the Century

Exodus

David Bowie's first chart topping single in America

Fame 1975

A side project featuring Byrds members.

Flying Burrito Bros

remains the bestselling live album of all-time and was the top-selling LP of 1976, first reaching #1 in April of that yea

Frampton Comes Alive

cream Albums

Fresh Cream (1967) Disraeli Gears (1967) Wheels of Fire (1968) Goodbye (1969)

Santana's Gypsy Queen was composed by

Gabor Szabo

Guitarist for the Eagles that died at the age of 67

Glen Frey

song by Elton John that sold 7 million copies and was the biggest selling studio release. "considered as best LP by him"

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Roger Dean

Graphic artist and designer of several album covers for Yes

John McLaughlin

Guitar - Mahavishnu Orchestra

Not strictly a disco act, but a British-based R&B/funk group that rose to prominence in the disco era with the albums Too Hot To Handle (1976) and Central Heating (1977).

Heatwave

one of the decade's popular albums by the Eagles

Hotel California

Bob Marley covered this Eric Clapton song

I Shot the Sheriff

In 2015, Chic charted for the first time in 22 years with the single

Ill Be There

In 1972, the wailers were eventually signed to

Island Records

Hendrix performed as side man with acts such as

Isley Brothers and Little Richard and others before going solo

had most successful long-running career of the 1970's era singer-songwriters

James Taylor

jazz musicians who played with Davis and later formed their own fusion bands

John McLaughin Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Joe Zawinul Tony Williams

Some jazz musicians who performed with Miles Davis, and later formed their own fusion bands

John McLaughlin Chick Corea Herbie Hancock Joe Zawinul Tony Williams

began her career as a songwriter, placing hit songs for Tom Rush's "The Circle Game" and Judy Collins' "Both Sides Now" and began recording on her own in 1968

Joni mitchell born in 1943

4 students killed protesting against Vietnam War in 1970

Kent State Shootings

Herbie Hancock

Keyboards

Herbie Hancock played this

Keyboards

Chick Corea

Keyboards - Return to Forever

Joe Zawinul

Keyboards - Weather Report

Chick Corea plays this in this band

Keyboards Return to Forever

Joe Zawinul played this in this band

Keyboards Weather Report

made ____ illegal in California on Oct. 6, 1966

LSD

Featured the bass thumping and plucking innovations of

Larry graham

Led Zeppelin's first album

Led Zeppelin 1968

Led Zeppelin's second album

Led Zeppelin II 1969

• In 2014, 30 years after its original release, the Marley compilation_______ reached the Top 10 (after deep discounting by Google Play) to become his highest charting album.

Legend

The group's founder

Maurice White died on 4th February 2016 at the age of 74.

Carlos Santana

Mexican-born rock guitarist who combined rock, jazz, and Afro-Latin elements on influential albums like Abraxas.

Bitches Brew released by Columbia Records

Miles Davis 1970

Festival in 1967 that featured mainly West Coast artists. First huge rock festival

Monterey Pop

Hendrix's performance at the__________ launched the Experience in America.

Monterey Pop Festival (1967

Monophonic electronic device first manufactured in 1964. • The first synthesizer widely used by recording artists, especially in progressive rock.

Moog Synthesizer invvented by Robert (Bob) Moog (1934-2005)

Miles Davis

Most commercially successful jazz musician, Merged jazz and rock to create fusion

Stevie Wonder was successful in his teenage years with ____ in the 1960s

Motown

Songs in the Key of Life was produced by _____ in ________.

Motown Records 1976

produced hit 1980s albums for David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Madonna, among others.

Nile Rogers

Rod Temperton died in

Oct. 2016

The Band of Gypsys album (1970) was recorded to meet legal obligations resulting from a contract signed by Hendrix in 1965 for one dollar from

PPX Enterprises

Began his solo career in 1972 with the reggae hit single, "Mother & Child Reunion."

Paul Simon

Santana's Black Magic Woman was written by this British guitarist, the found of Fleetwood Mac

Peter Green

one of the labels that introduced disco. Gamble & Huff (Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff) were the label's main hit producers & songwriters.

Philadelphia International

In 2015, Rodgers was honored by the Recording Academy's

Producers & Engineers Wing

Only two albums entered the U.S top 30:

Rastaman Vibration (1976) & Exodus (1977).

Elton John's real name

Reginald Dwight

Hey Joe released by Tim Rose

Released as a single in 1966. Issued on an LP in 1967. No chart impact, but heard by Hendrix.

Brown controversially endorsed the presidency of

Republican Richard Nixon whose hostile comments on White House tapes display racism.

The group's best-known hit "Good Times" was from the third Chic LP,

Risqué (1979)

Graphic artist & designer of several album covers for the British progressive rock band Yes that was especially successful in the 1970s.

Roger Dean

Carlos Santana's album _____ reached #4 on the Top LPs chart

Santana

Black Magic Woman

Santana 1970

Oye Como Va

Santana 1970 #13 pop #32 R&B in 1971

The massive 1977 soundtrack album featured the Bee Gees. The double LP spent 24 weeks at #1 on the Billboard album chart.

Saturday Night Fever

Earth Wind and FireThe group's most recent album debuted at #11 on the Billboard album chart in

Sept. 2013

Carole King

Singer-songwriter who wrote many hits in the 1960s with Gerry Goffin.

Hey Joe released by The Leaves

Single released 30th July, 1966, peaking at #31. The first hit version.

• The band sly and the family stone's hit 1969 album was added to the National Recording Registry in 2015.

Stand

A studio-based outfit by the mid-1970s, led by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. • Known for sophisticated jazz/pop stylings and studio production.

Steely Dan

Used innovative use of synthesizers when very few pop artists used them

Stevie Wonder

Songs in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder 1976

Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants

Stevie Wonder 1979

This production team designed many of rock's most memorable and inventive album covers.

Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell "Hipgnosis"

Jame Taylor's second album

Sweet Baby James 1970

A major hit album which introduced the musical mainstream to the Moog.

Switched on bach by wendy carlos

The band that influenced Stevie Wonder

TONTO's Zero album

Stevie Wonder's Superstition was the first featured single from this album

Talking Book

Carole King's album that was the #1 album for 15 weeks and remained on the charts for 6 years

Tapestry

Carole King's song, produced by A&M records

Tapestry 1971

Garth Brooks named his first child ____ in honor of his favorite song writer

Taylor

Bitches Brew producer

Teo Macero

Davis' record porducer for Bitches Brew

Teo Macero

The first rock band to play the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville

The Byrds

label founded in 1973 with rock group Kiss as its only act, but it soon became an influential and commercially powerful disco label, particularly with singer Donna Summer whose single "Love to Love You Baby" (recorded in Germany) was an international hit.

The Casablanca Records

The cover of Elvis Presley's 1956 debut album was imitated by British punk rock group_________on the cover of the London Calling LP in 1979.

The Clash

Released a 2017 40th Ann. 3-cd box set

The Eagles

Hotel California

The Eagles (1976)

take it easy

The Eagles 1972

Heatwave's latter album featured the massive hit single written by English keyboardist Rod Temperton who later wrote hits such as "Off the Wall," "Rock With You," and "Thriller" for Michael Jackson.

The Groove Line

singer and songwriter Issac Hayes scored a gold #1 single with ______ in 1971

Theme from Shaft

Summer of Love (1967)

Thousands of "flower children" flock to San Francisco and Monterrey for peace demonstrations.

the first hit album for the newly-formed Virgin Records label.

Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield (1973).

key events in 1968

Vietnam war civil rights student protests assassinations Nixon

3 big hits on Gaye's What's Going On Album

What's Going On Mercy Mercy Me Inner City Blues

Marvin Gaye's best selling LP that fused soul music and gospel

What's Going On 1971

sued Led Zeppelin for plagiarizing his song " You Need Love" from "Whole Lotta Love"

Willie Dixion

a concept album based on founding member Syd Barrett whose LSD addiction led to him being fired from the group in 1968.

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

Santana performed at this festival in 1969

Woodstock

major 60s music festival

Woodstock

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album (1974) featured

an androgynous Bowie-canine creature...soon yanked from the shelves of record stores and replaced with a tamer alternative."

Nixon's tapes revealed

anti-Semetism

Led Zepplelin's John Paul Jones is the

bass and organ player

Bitches Brew by Miles Davis became the

best selling jazz album in history at that time

First album released in 1971. The single, "Ain't No Sunshine" went gold.

bill withers

Jamacian musician that leads the Wailers

bob marley

sly and the family stone developed

both black and white audiences.

In January 2015, Sly Stone was awarded $5 million in a

breach of contract lawsuit against his former manager.

Self-titled gold debut album released in 1977 by Atlantic Records

chic

Miles Davis' Bitches brew was released in 1970 by

columbia records

what was Joni Mitchell's Blue album about?

complexities of love

Stevie Wonder successfully did this while keeping a strong African American sound

cross into mainstream rock

Songs in the Key of Life received ______ certification and earned several grammys

diamond

Led Zepplelin's John Bonham is the

drummer

first popular music style to consistently apply the concept of remixing.

dub

The most recent Hendrix release

e live Machine Gun album issued in September 2016, featuring his entire first show with the Band of Gypsys on 31st December, 1969.

The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975

first album to be certified platinum by the RIAA

Carole won

four grammys

John McLaughin plays this in this band

guitar Mahavishnu

Motown owner Berry Gordon initially didn't want to release Marvin Gaye's What's Going On because

he thought it would have no commercial potential

The group recorded the song live in France on 18th October, 1966, before creating a studio version.

hey Joe

Began the 70s with a rock & soul fusion featuring lead guitar influenced by former backing band member Jimi Hendrix. • The group also covered songs by rock artists.

isley brothers

Recognized as the creator of funk. The most sampled artist in popular music.

james brown

"The most original, inventive, and influential guitarist of the rock era." "The most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s."

jimi hendrix

Theme of Dark Side of the Moon

madness and what drives us to it

Stevie Wonder was a major ______, ________, and _______ in the 1970s

multi- instrumentalist, artist and songwriter

was hey Joe first written by hendrix?

no

• His 1976 live double album Frampton Comes Alive followed four studio albums, none of which had been millionselling releases.

peter frampton

Disco shifted the focus to

producers and Djs

Fire and Rain- James Taylor

put on Sweet Baby James album

Dark Side of the Moon

released in 1973 by Pink Floyd

James Taylor's Before This World album

released in 2015 and was his first #1 pop album in America

James Taylor's self debut "James Taylor"

released on the Beatle's Apple Records

Don's Shoot I'm Only The Piano Player

second of seven consecutive million selling number one albums for Elton John

"Dance To The Music" (1968) & "Everyday People" (1969).

sly and the family stone

The music was described as "interracial psychedelic soul" played by a band including women.

sly and the family stone

Tapestry was the only 20th century album by female solo artist to

spend 15 consecutive weeks at #1

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was considered to be one of the most

successful albums in history

Bob Marley is the leader of

the Wailers

• Debut Island Records album from Bob Marley, Catch a Fire (1973), was commercially aimed at

the rock audience

Led Zepplelin's Robert Plant is the

vocalist

debut album cover from 1969 captured the group in a location reflecting the character of the music.

• The Crosby, Stills & Nash