History Rock & Roll Midterm
Which member of The Beach Boys, despite his mental illness which prevented him from touring with the band, was the creative force behind the band's most influential record?
Carl Wilson Chuck Berry Al Jardine Brian Wilson (Brian Wilson)
Where was it that Bob Dylan famously "went electric" in 1965?
Cathedral City Newport Woodstock Monterey (Newport)
Which of the other members of the Rolling Stones attended primary school with Mick Jagger?
Charlie Watts Keith Richards Brian Jones John Lennon (Keith Richards)
Which of the following bands had a major hit with a sudo-cover of a song by Delta Blues legend Robert Johnson?
Cream The Jimi Hendrix Experience Pearl Jam The Who (Cream)
Which of the following musicians was the electric bass player for Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew?
Darlene Wright Carol Kaye James Jammerson Les Claypool (Carol Kaye)
Which of the following guitar players was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to London, England to form his famous rock trio?
Jimi Hendrix Pete Townshend Slash Eric Clapton (Jimi Hendrix)
Which of the following cities is synonymous with Motown?
New York Detroit Memphis Chicago (Detroit)
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?
Simon and Garfunkel Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Peter, Paul and Mary The Mamas and the Papas (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
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?
The Beach Boys The Chantays Dick Dale and the Deltones Metallica (The Beach Boys)
Which of the following artist's cover of a Bob Dylan song became their first top 20 hit in the U.S.?
The Doors The Grateful Dead Lizzo Jimi Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix)
Which of the following bands are best known fro their extensive use of improvisation in their live shows?
The Doors The Jimi Hendrix Experience The Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane (The Grateful Dead)
Which of the following bands wrote a Southern Rock anthem in response to Neil Young's song "Southern Man"?
The Eagles Blood, Sweat and Tears The Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Which of the following groups popularized the use of two lead guitar players?
The Eagles The Charlie Daniels Band Lynyrd Skynyrd The Allman Brothers (The Allman Brothers)
Which of the following bands did not follow the two lead guitar player trend popular among southern rock bands?
The Eagles ZZ Top Lynyrd Skynyrd The Allman Brothers (ZZ Top)
Which band made the fuzz guitar sound famous?
The Kinks Cream The Beatles The Who (The Kinks)
Which of the following bands was known for smashing their instruments on stage during their performances?
The Who John Mayall's Blues Breakers Big Brother and the Holding Company Cream (The Who)
Aretha Franklin started her musical career as a religious gospel singer.
True
Where was the birthplace of Jazz?
a. Chicago b. New Orleans c. New York d. Mississippi (b. New Orleans)
Whom of the following was the founder of Motown?
Aretha Franklin Otis Redding Barry Gordy Jr. Marvin Gaye (Barry Gody Jr.)
Which of the following artist's songs was a plea for peace in the world and a commentary of the Vietnam war and the violence of the civil rights movement?
Aretha Franklin - "Respect" Ray Charles - "What'd I Say" Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" James Brown - "Please, Please, Please" (Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On")
Which of the following bands lead singer dies in an airplane crash in 1977?
Blood Sweat and Tears Charlie Daniels Band The Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
In many ways Heavy Metal was a reaction against______________?
Blues Hard Rock Psychedelic Rock Country Rock (Psychedelic Rock)
Which folk artist wrote the majority of their introspective album containing their first hit single while in a hospital to recover from a heroine addiction?
Bob Dylan James Taylor Joni Mitchell Paul Simon (James Taylor)
Whom of the following was the Beatles producer responsible for much of their artistic growth in the recording studio?
Brian Epstein Keith Richards George Martin Ringo Starr (George Martin)
Which artist were The Beach Boys found guilty of copying with their famous song "Surfing' U.S.A."?
Dick Dale Chuck Berry Big Momma Thornton Little Richard (Chuck Berry)
Which of the following is known as the "King of Surf Guitar"?
Dick Dale Chuck Berry Duane Eddy Brian Wilson (Dick Dale)
Mick Jagger's stage performance style can be traced back to which artist?
Elvis Presley Katie Perry Buddy Holly James Brown (James Brown)
Which of the following guitar players had a signature move where they swing their right arm around when they play?
Eric Clapton Jimmy Page Dave Davies Pete Townshend (Pete Townshend)
American garageband the Kingsmen's recording of "Louie Louie" was about a train conductor?
False
Elvis Presley wrote most of his own songs.
False
Racism did not really play much of a role in the early history of Rock and Roll.
False
Tin Pan Alley was where Delta Blues originated.
False
Which of the following bands wrote the rock opera "Tommy"?
Fleetwood Mac The Yardbords The Kinks The Who (The Who)
Which band's song from the listening guides in Chapter 10 uses imagery from a famous book by Lewis Carroll to make reference to the popular drug use in the Psychedelic movement?
Grateful Dead The Jimi Hendrix Experience The Doors Jefferson Airplane (Jefferson Airplane)
Which of the following Beatles albums was influenced by the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" released the year prior?
Help! Magical Mystery Tour Revolver Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Which of the following lead singer's chronic drug use prevented their band from going on long concert tours?
Jerry Garcia Phil Lesh Jim Morrison Jimi Hendrix (Jim Morrison)
Which guitar player's blues-based psychedelic sound became the model for other guitarists for years to come?
Jim Morrison Jimi Hendrix Jerry Garcia Syd Barrett (Jimi Hendrix)
Which of the following musicians played in all of the following bands; Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith and The Yardbirds?
John Mayall Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Steve Winwood (Eric Clapton)
Which of the following folk musician's father was a famous musicologist who went around the Appalachians recording folk songs?
Joni Mitchell Woodie Guthrie Pete Seeger Bob Dylan (Pete Seeger)
Which New York- based Glam Metal band discussed in Chapter 12 wore elaborate costumes on stage?
Judas Priest Black Sabbath KISS Van Halen (KISS)
Which of the following bands was formed by musicians who had been part of the British blues revival?
Judas Priest Black Sabbath Van Halen Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin)
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?
Judas Priest KISS Alice Cooper Van Halen (Judas Priest)
Which drug was most associated with the Psychedelic movement?
LSD Alcohol Marijuana Heroine (LSD)
This band's guitar player was a classically trained pianist before switching to electric guitar.
Led Zeppelin KISS Van Halen Judas Priest (Van Halen)
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?
Liverpool Berlin Cologne Hamburg (Hamburg)
Which of the following bands was NOT from the South?
Lynyrd Skynyrd ZZ Top The Eagles The Allman Brothers (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Which of the following artists is known as The Godfather of Soul?
Marvin Gaye James Brown Sam Cooke Otis Redding (James Brown)
Which original member of the Rolling Stones died in his swimming pool in 1969?
Mick Jagger Ian Stewart Bill Wyman Brian Jones (Brian Jones)
Which of the following record labels was known for toning down its gospel and blues influences to appeal to white audiences?
Motown Atlantic Stax Sun (Motown)
Which of the following is synonymous with active bass lines and horn lines where the trumpet and saxophone play in parallel?
Motown Sound London Sound Atlantic Sound Memphis Sound (Memphis Sound)
Hittsville USA was located in which US city?
New York City Chicago Detroit Los Angeles (Detroit)
Which of the following bands featured brothers playing Hammond organ and electric guitar?
Nirvana The Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd Blood Sweat and Tears (The Allman Brothers)
Which of the following artists is NOT associated with the Memphis Soul Sound?
Otis Redding Wilson Pickett Booker T Marvin Gaye (Marvin Gaye)
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?
Pat Boone Phil Spector Dick Dale Brian Wilson (Phil Spector)
The practice where record labels pay radio dic jockeys to play their artists' music on the air is best known as which of the following?
Pay for Play ASCAP Payola BMI (Payola)
Which of the following artists have had the most covers of their songs recorded by other artists?
Pete Seeger Joni Mitchell James Taylor Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)
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?
Phil Spector Alan Freed Pat Boone Dick Clark (Alan Freed)
Which of he following bands had a dedicated group of fans who became known for following the band around from concert to concert?
Pink Floyd The Grateful Dead The Doors Jefferson Airplane (The Grateful Dead)
Teen idols like Pat Boone, Frankie Avalon and Paul Anka sang in a style similar to that of the ____________________ of the previous generation?
Punk Rockers Crooners Jazz Scatters Doo-Wop singers (Crooners)
Which classical Indian instrument was played on the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" and the Rolling Stones "Paint It Black"?
Raga Oud Sitar Tanpura (Sitar)
Which of the following was often used as a metaphor by Bob Dylan?
Rain Fire Wind War (Wind)
Which of the following Rolling Stones hit was a cover of a Buddy Holly song?
Satisfaction Not Fade away Paint it Black Chandelier (Not Fade away)
Whom of the following's acoustic guitar playing and general folk style influenced much of the Beatles work in the middle and late sixties?
Stuart Suttcliff Bob Dylan Keith Richards James Taylor (Bob Dylan)
Which of the following bands had black and white band members?
The Allman Brothers ZZ Top Lynyrd Skynyrd The Charlie Daniels Band (The Allman Brothers)
What was the name given to the backup band that played on most of Motown's records?
The Funk Brothers The Blues Brothers The Jonas Brothers The Soul Brothers (The Funk Brothers)
Which of the following groups started out as a psychedelic band, but eventually became better known as a progressive rock band.
The Grateful Dead The Doors Jefferson Airplane Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd)
Which of the following bands was fronted by a singer who saw themselves more as a poet than a musician?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Jefferson Airplane The Doors The Grateful Dead (The Doors)
Which of the following artists had a hit with a song about a condemned man who killed his lover with a knife?
The Kingston Trio Joni Mitchell Simon and Garfunkel Peter, Paul and Mary (The Kingston Trio)
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?
The Shirelles The Beach Boys Frankie Avalon and the Four Seasons The Ronettes (The Shirelles)
Which of the following artists was one of the first to earn the freedom at Motown to write and produce their recordings themselves.
The Temptations Aretha Franklin Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye (Stevie Wonder)
Which of the following songs infuses elements of Jazz with Folk?
This Land is Your Land Help Me The Sound of Silence Fire and Rain (Help Me)
Which of the following individuals was most well-known for their promotion and advocacy of the use of LSD?
Timothy Leary Bob Dylan Alan Ginsberg Grace Slick (Timothy Leary)
Both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones started off as cover bands in England.
True
Many from the south during this period viewed themselves as being very separate/independent from the rest of the country.
True
Many of the well known blues musicians in England in the early to mid 1960's often changed bands.
True
Most of the British blues covers were not sanitized and countrified versions of the blues originals, as were those made by white artists in America during the 50's/
True
Much of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal was riff-based.
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.
True
The roots of the Blues can be traced back to Arabia, the Middle East and Africa?
True
Which of the following artists never played in a folk-rock group with electric instruments?
Woody Guthrie Bob Dylan Simon and Garfunkel Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Woody Guthrie)
Who did Bob Dylan move to New York to get to know better?
Woody Guthrie James Taylor Alan Lomax Pete Seeger (Woody Guthrie)
Which of the following bands was based in New York?
ZZ Top Blood, Sweat and Tears The Eagles Chicago (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
Which band formed out of the work the founding members were doing with singer Linda Rondstadt?
ZZ Top The Eagles Lynyrd Skynyrd The Allman Brothers (The Eagles)
The blues is typically written in a ______ bar pattern.
a. 14 b. 12 c. 7 d. 16 (b. 12)
Which of the following is an example of an Urban Blues musician?
a. B.B. King b. Robert Johnson c. Bo Diddley d. Bessie Smith (a. B.B. King)
Which of the following artists/groups is considered the "first international rock stars"?
a. Bill Haley and the Comets b. Elvis Presley c. Buddy Holly and the Crickets d. Billie Eillish (a. Bill Haley and the Comets)
Which of the following artists was one of the first Rock guitar players to play a solid body electric guitar?
a. Buddy Holly b. Elvis Presley c. Fats Domino d. Bill Haley (a. Buddy Holly)
Which musical tradition did Johnny Cash Come from?
a. Country b. Jazz c. Rhythm and Blues d. Ragtime (a. Country)
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?
a. Doo Wop b. Shoo Bob c. Rockabilly d. Thrash Metal (a. Doo Wop)
Elvis Presley's original recordings were a mix of rock and which other style?
a. Hillbilly b. Jazz c. Rhythm and Blues d. Funk (a. Hillbilly)
Which of the following was America's most famous ragtime composer?
a. Justin Bieber b. Scott Joplin c. Hank Williams d. Bo Diddley (b. Scott Joplin)
Which of the following artists are NOT associated with Rockabilly?
a. Little Richard b. Bill Haley and the Comets c. Elvis Presley d. Jerry Lee Lewis (a. Little Richard)
Which of these artists was famous for their pop ballads and non-offensive covers of Blues and Rhythm and Blues songs?
a. Pat Boone b. Elvis Presley c. Little Richard d. Phil Spector (a. Pat Boone)
Which of the following was among the first musicians to use the electric guitar as a solo Blues instrument?
a. Post Malone b. B.B. King c. T-Bone Walker d. Bo Diddley (c. T-Bone Walker)
The early popularity of Rhythm and Blues among white audiences in the 1950's can be attributed to which of the following?
a. Radio Disc Jockeys b. Vaudeville Shows c. Jump Bands d. MTV (a. Radio Disc Jockeys)
"Rock and Roll" is a term that was used to replace which of the following?
a. Rhythm and Blues b. Delta Blues c. Bebop d. Swing (a. Rhythm and Blues)
Which of the following terms replaced "Race Music" in the 1950's?
a. Rhythm and Blues b. Jumping' Jive c. Doo Wop d. Country and Western (a. Rhythm and 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?
a. Shady Blues b. Urban Blues c. Delta Blues d. Country Blues (b. Urban Blues)
Which of the following instruments was NOT common in Rockabilly bands?
a. electric bass b. acoustic upright bass c. electric guitar d. acoustic guitar e. drum (b. acoustic upright bass?)
