History Rock and Roll Final/Midterm use F3
Country
Which musical tradition did Johnny Cash come from?
Not Fade Away
Which of the following Rolling Stones hit was a cover of a Buddy Holly?
The Allman Brothers
Which of the following groups popularized the use of two lead guitar players?
Carol Kaye
Which of the following musicians was the electric bass player for Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew?
Crooners
Teen idols like Pat Boone, Frankie Avalon and Paul Anka sang in a style similar to that of the ____________________ of the previous generation?
True
The American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was responsible for initiating the Payola investigations of 1958.
True
The Blues functioned as a personal expression of an individual who suffered from a lack of human respectability.
Van Halen
The band's guitar player was a classically trained pianist before switching to electric guitar.
12
The blues is typically written in a ______ bar pattern.
Radio Disc Jockeys
The early popularity of Rhythm and Blues among white audiences in the 1950's can be attributed to which of the following?
Payola
The practice where record labels pay radio disc jockeys to play their artists' music on the air is best known as which of the following?
True
The roots of the Blues can be traced back to Arabia, the Middle East and Africa?
Judas Preist
Which of the following Heavy Metal bands influenced many Heavy Metal bands, who came after them by adding a second lead guitarist to the typical band configuration at the time?
The Beach Boys
Which of the following Surf Rock bands was responsible for the album "Pet Sounds" which inspired a Trent of concept albums being made by rock artists, heavily influenced the Beatles' "Sgt. Peppers..." album and changed the trajectory of Rock music production?
Simon and Garfunkel
Which of the following artist never played in a folk-rock group with electric instruments?
Jimi Hendrix
Which of the following artist's cover of a Bob Dylan song became their first top 20 hit in the U.S.?
Marvin Gaye- "What's Going On"
Which of the following artist's songs was a plea for peace in the world and commentary of the Vietnam war and the violence of the civil rights movement?
Little Richard
Which of the following artists are NOT associated with Rockabilly?
The Kingston Trio
Which of the following artists had a hit with a song about a condemned man who killed his lover with a knife?
Bob Dylan
Which of the following artists have had the most covers of their songs recorded by other artists?
Marvin Gaye
Which of the following artists is NOT associated with the Memphis Sound?
James Brown
Which of the following artists is known as "The Godfather of Soul"?
Buddy Holly
Which of the following artists was one of the first Rock guitar players to play a solid electric guitar?
The Temptations
Which of the following artists was one of the first to earn the freedom at Motown to write and produce their recordings themselves?
Bill Haley and the Comets
Which of the following artists/groups is considered the "first international rock stars"?
The Grateful Dead
Which of the following bands are best known for their existence use of improvisation in their live shows?
ZZ Top
Which of the following bands did not follow the two lead guitar player trend popular among southern rock bands?
The Allman Brothers
Which of the following bands featured brother playing Hammond organ and electric guitar?
The Grateful Dead
Which of the following bands had a dedicated groups of fans who became known for following the band around from concert to concert?
Cream
Which of the following bands had a major hit with a sudo-cover of a song by Delta BLues legend Robert Johnson?
The Allman Brothers
Which of the following bands had black and white band members?
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Which of the following bands leads singer dies in an airplane crash in 1977?
Iron Maiden
Which of the following bands took their name from a medieval torture device?
The Eagles
Which of the following bands was NOT from the South?
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Which of the following bands was based in New York
Led Zeppelin
Which of the following bands was formed by musician who had been part of the British blues revival?
The Doors
Which of the following bands was fronted by a singer who saw themselves more as a poet than a musician?
The Who
Which of the following bands was known for smashing their instruments on stage during their performance?
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Which of the following bands wrote a Southern Rock anthem in response to Neil Young's song "Southern Man"?
The Who
Which of the following bands wrote the rock opera "Tommy"?
Urban Blues
Which of the following best exemplifies a Blues style that developed when musicians banded together into small groups instead of just singing and and accompanying themselves on guitars?
Detroit
Which of the following cities synonymous with Motown?
Pete Seeger
Which of the following folk musician's father was a famous musicologist who went around the Appalachians recording folk songs?
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Which of the following folk-rock bands recorded a hit song about the shooting of protestors by the National Guard at Kent State University in 1970?
The Shirelles
Which of the following groups had a hit song about a woman wondering if she sleeps with a romantic partner will he still love her the next day?
Pink Floyd
Which of the following groups started out as a psychedelic band, but eventually became better known as a progressive rock band?
Pete Townshend
Which of the following guitar had a signature move where they put their arm around when they play?
Jimi Hendrix
Which of the following guitar players was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to London, England to form his famous rock trio?
Timothy Leary
Which of the following individuals was most well-known for their promotion and advocacy of the use of LSD?
AC/DC
Which of the following influential Heavy Metal bands was formed in 1973 in Australia?
Doo Wop
Which of the following is a form of music popular in the 1950's that featured vocal groups?(Hint: the name comes from the nonsense words often used by backup singers)
B.B King
Which of the following is an example of an Urban Blues musician?
Dick Dale
Which of the following is known as the "King of Surf Guitar"?
Memphis Sound
Which of the following is synonymous with active bass lines and horn lines where the trumpet and saxophone play in parallel?
Jim Morrison
Which of the following lead singer's chronic drug use prevented their band from going on long concert tours?
Eric Clapton
Which of the following musicians played in all of the following bands: Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith and The Yardbirds?
Phil Spector
Which of the following people were famous for their "Wall of Sound" production style utilizing large numbers of instruments, multi-track recording and orchestral percussion?
Motown
Which of the following record labels was known for toning down its gospel and blues influences to appeal to white audiences?
Help Me
Which of the following songs infuses elements of Jazz with Folk?
Scott Joplin
Which of the following was America's most famous ragtime composer?
T-Bone Walker
Which of the following was among the first musicians to use the electric guitar as a solo Blues instrument?
War
Which of the following was often used as a metaphor by Bob Dylan
Keith Richards
Which of the other members of the Rolling Stones attended primary school with Mick Jagger?
Pat Boone
Which of these artists was famous for their pop ballads and non-offensive covers of Blues and Rhythm and BLues songs?
Brian Jones
Which originals member of the Rolling Stones died in his swimming pool in 1969?
Woody Guthrie
Who did Bob Dylan move to New York to get to know better?
Bob Dylan
Whom of the following acoustic guitar playing and general folk style influential much of the Beatles work in the middle and late sixties?
George Martin
Whom of the following was the Beatles producer responsible for much of their artistic growth in the recording studio?
Berry Gordy jr.
Whom of the following was the founder of Motown?
False
Tin Pan Alley was where Delta Blues originated.
Cream
Which of the following British Psychedelic Blues bands was highly influential to the Hard Rock movement?
True
Many of the well known blues musicians in England in the early to mid sixties changed bands.
James Brown
Mick Jagger's stage performance style can be traced back to which artist?
Rhythm and Blues
"Rock and Roll" is a term that was used to replace which of the following?
False
American garageband the Kingsmen's recordings of "Louie Louie" was about a train conductor?
True
Aretha Franklin started her musical career as a religious gospel singer.
True
Both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones started off as a covered bands in England.
False
Elvis Presley wrote most of his own songs
Hillbilly
Elvis Presley's original recordings were a mix of rock and which other style?
Psychedelic Rock
In many ways Heavy Metal was a reaction against___?
Hamburg
In which German city did the Beatles spend 4 months playing at a club 7 hours a day, 7 days a week in 1960 with their original drummer Pete Best?
True
Many from the south during this period viewed themselves as being very separate/independent from the rest of the country?
True
Most of the British blues covers were not sanitized and counterfeit versions of the blues originals, as were those made by white artists in America during the 50s
True
Much of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal was riff-based
False
Racism did not really play much of a role in the early history of Rock and Roll.
The Funk Brothers
What was the name given to the backup band that played on most of Motown's records?
Newport
Where was it that Bob Dylan famously "went electric" in 1965?
New Orleans
Where was the birthplace of Jazz?
KISS
Which New York based Glam Metal band discussed in CH 12 wore elaborate costumes on stage?
Chuck Berry
Which artist were The Beach Boys found guilty of copying with their famous song "Surfing' U.S.A."?
The Eagles
Which band formed out of the work the founding members were doing with singer Linda Ronstadt?
The Kinks
Which band made the fuzz guitar sound famous?
Jefferson Airplane
Which bands songs from the listening guides in CH 10 uses imagery from a famous book by Lewis Carroll to make reference to the popular drug use in Psychedelic movement?
Sitar
Which classical Indian instrument was played on the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" and the Rolling Stones "Paint It Black"?
LSD
Which drug was most associated with the Psychedelic movement?
Alan Freed
Which famous disk jockey, who was arguably single handedly responsible for the explosive popularity of Rock and Roll, had his career destroyed by the Payola scandal of 1958?
James Taylor
Which folk artist wrote the majority if their introspective album containing their first hit single while in a hospital to recover from a heroine addiction?
Jimi Hendrix
Which guitar player's blues-based psychedelic sound became the model for other guitarists for years to come?
Alice Cooper
Which if the following groups were labeled as "Shock Rock" and had elaborate stage shows that included live snakes, blood and staged executions?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Which of the following Beatles albums was influenced by the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" released the year prior?
