Rock and Roll Chapter 2

Who was the New Orleans-based pianist and singer who had more than thirty Top 40 hits, including "Blueberry Hill"?

Fats Domino

Chuck Berry's crossover hit "Maybellene" was his version of a country tune called

Ida Red

Which of the following singers, signed to RCA Records just after Elvis Presley, was marketed as the "female Elvis"?

Janie Martin

Who was the artist who cowrote and first recorded the song "Tutti Frutti"?

Little Richard

Which artists were early rock and roll performers known for their manic piano playing and wild stage personas?

Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis

Where was Sun Records located?

Memphis

Which singer performed a cover of Fats Domino's "Ain't It a Shame," retitled "Ain't That a Shame," which outperformed the original on the pop charts?

Pat Boone

Sam Phillips sold Elvis's contract to

RCA

Rockabilly arrangements tended not to use

drums

After World War II, teenagers

had their own pop culture

As a songwriter, Chuck Berry appealed to teenagers by doing all of the following EXCEPT

incorporating sexually explicit lyrics

In 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis's career stalled due to a scandal surrounding his

marriage

The opening guitar solo of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" uses double stops, a technique that involves

playing two notes at the same time

Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran are associated with what style of music?

rockabilly

In addition to being a performer, Buddy Holly was an influential

songwriter

Buddy Holly's band, which recorded the hit "That'll Be the Day," was called

the Crickets

Payola refers to

the practice of giving DJs gifts or cash to play records on the radio.

Record popularity charts were created to

help industry radicals change the system

During the payola scandals, there was a struggle between which two organizations that collected royalties for songwriters?

ASCAP and BMI

Which celebrity DJ, who started out playing rhythm and blues records on a Cleveland radio station, was influential in bringing rock and roll into the mainstream?

Alan Freed

"That's All Right (Mama)" was written by

Arthur Crudup

Which of the following films used Bill Haley's song "(We're Gonna) Rock around the Clock" over the opening credits?

Blackboard Jungle

Carl Perkins's biggest hit for Sun Records was

"Blue Suede Shoes"

Which singer began recording rockabilly songs like "Bigelow 6-200" before the age of thirteen?

Brenda Lee

All of the following artists recorded for Sun Records, EXCEPT

Buddy Holly - Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis did record for Sun Records

On February 3, 1959, known as the "The Day the Music Died,"

Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash

Which two high-profile music industry professionals were questioned by a congressional committee during the payola investigations?

Dick Clark and Alan Freed

By the early 1960s, Elvis Presley had

a broader appeal

In the 1950s, pop covers of rhythm and blues songs

benefited mainly record companies and white performers

When a record holds a prominent position on more than one popularity chart (for example, the pop chart and the rhythm and blues chart), this is known as

crossover