Music-187 Quiz Questions: Ch.8-22

Which of the following songs is not from either the Coasters or the Drifters?

"I Got a Woman"

Blue-eyed soul was the major record labels' attempt to steal sales away from African American soul artists by covering their songs and flooding the market.

False

T/F: Hollywood recording studios were ahead of the rest of society, hiring a representational number of white and African American musicians.

False

T/F: Little Richard 's hits tended to be sweet and sentimental love songs.

False

T/F: Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, were writing Tin Pan Alley type songs before working for Atlantic.

False

T/F: Teen idol and girl group songs drew heavily on the blues.

False

T/F: Bebop matured into a style that became known as hard bop.

True

T/F: Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" became a hit after it was used in the teen-rebel film Blackboard Jungle.

True

T/F: Black artists' recordings were called Race Records before they were called Rhythm & Blues.

True

T/F: Black vocal doo-wop groups who saw commercial success in the early 1950s were either bought out or replaced by white vocal groups by the mid-1950s.

True

T/F: Herbie Hancock had a recording career before being hired by Miles Davis.

True

T/F: One of the bands most associated with the "third stream" movement, who combined ideas from classical music with jazz was the Modern Jazz Quartet

True

T/F: Ray Charles pioneered the soul movement by putting secular lyrics to gospel songs.

True

The 1950s teenager had extra time and money to spend on their own fashion, lifestyle, and music.

True

Which of the following styles of music had the most significant influence on early doo-wop vocal groups?

gospel

Which of these was NOT a doo-wop group?

the Canaries

Which famous producer worked with the Righteous Brothers?

Phil Spector

This artist's "My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)" is credited as the first time the words "rock" and "roll" appear in a song together.

Trixie Smith

Elvis Presley's version of Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" is about a dog, not a man who "come snoopin' round my door."

True

This hard bop drummer and leader's band, the Jazz Messengers, was referred to as his "school" because it was an incubator for young jazz talent:

Art Blakey

Louis Jordan successfully transitioned from the big band era to a small group style of music that mixed blues, swing, and jazz called ______________.

"jump blues"

Which of these statements is inconsistent with the era discussed above?

?

The founder of Atlantic Records was _______________.

Ahmet Ertegun

Miles Davis hired this pianist for his modal experience while his trio redefined the "piano trio" concept. An example of his work can be heard in his recording, "Waltz for Debbie."

Bill Evans

This artist recorded first with J.J. Johnson, then with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. His solos were highly organized, but died at age 25.

Clifford Brown

"Take Five" is an example of this cool jazz pianist/composer's use of irregular (odd) time signatures.

Dave Brubeck

This artist pioneered the surf guitar sound, using reverb, fast picking and non-Western scales, on songs like "Misirlou."

Dick Dale

This artist/group started out on the streets of the Bronx as a cappella singer(s) in the true doo-wop tradition, recording sweet and harmless songs like "Teenager in Love" (1959).

Dion and the Belmonts

This early rock 'n' roll artist, who fused R&B with country, was discovered by Sam Phillips of Sun Records when he came in to record a single record to give his mother as a birthday gift. One of his early hits is "Mystery Train."

Elvis Presley

Tom Dowd's role at Atlantic Records was ______________________.

Engineer/producer

White supremacist organizations such as the White Alabama Citizens Council promoted rhythm & blues and rock & roll because they believed it had a positive influence on white teens.

False

T/F: Cover versions in the 1950s and early 1960s almost always sold fewer albums than the original.

False, they always out-sold the originals

The piano playing singer who recorded 37 Top-40 hits including "Ain't That a Shame" and "Blueberry Hill" was ________________.

Fats Domino

Which of the following is NOT true about Alan Freed?

He developed a radio nickname, "Moon-cat"

They predated the Beach Boys, but not doing surf music. Ironically, this group had the first #1 surf-related hit with Brian Wilson's song "Surf City" that he would also produce for them.

Jan & Dean

This tenor saxophonist composed one of the most enduring jazz suites, A Love Supreme (1964), which he dedicated to God, and in which can be heard his sweeping "sheets of sound" style.

John Coltrane

Most of the earliest and many of the later rockabilly songs relied on ______________.

NOT THE ANSWER: Sexualized lyrics

Which one of these statements is NOT true about the Beach Boys?

NOT THE ANSWER: They started as a surf band

Writing his own songs, like "Calendar Girl," this artist exemplified the teen idol sound.

Neil Sedaka

This singer was first promoted as a rockabilly artist at Sun Records to little attention, but after to moving to Nashville struck gold with songs like "Only the Lonely" and "Oh, Pretty Woman."

Roy Orbison

This artist recorded a string of hits including, "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean."

Ruth Brown

Which of the following statements/names is NOT consistent with/connected to cool jazz?

That it was for white people only

A place in Manhattan that in the late 1950s would lend its name to a songwriting style that incorporated the sounds of R&B and rock and roll with the polished techniques of the prerock era. For the first time, women were as important as men as songwriters.

The Brill Building

Which of the following groups made a career out of covered black artists' songs such as the Gladiolas' "Little Darlin'":

The Diamonds

The highly sexualized song, "Sixty-Minute Man" was recorded by which formerly doo-wop group?

The Dominoes

With the Goffin-King tune, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," in 1960, this girl group became the first African American female group to reach #1 on the pop charts.

The Shirelles

This group is an important precursor of the surf genre. Their first and biggest hit was Walk, Don't Run (1960). The clean and sparse style would have a significant influence on later surf bands.

The Ventures

The songs "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore," "Good Lovin'," and "Groovin'" were recorded by ___________________.

The Young Rascal

The Righteous Brothers song, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" logged more than eight million airplays by the end of 1999.

True