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| 1940, allowed for records to get played on radio. |
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| Bill Haley and the Comets |
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| Contemporary Christian Magazine (CCM) |
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| Began as a music tabloid, first charts for Christian music. |
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| Shawn fanning and John fanning |
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| created the Apple II computer |
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| created the Sons of the Pioneers |
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| Founded Asylum, and Geffen Records, Nirvana |
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| Russell Simmons, Rick Ruben |
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| demographic group of musical trend setters in 1950s |
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| developed 33 1/3 rpm record |
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| developed the first computer chip |
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| Developed the keyboard based synthesizer |
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| Developed the Netscape browser |
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| Developed the World Wide web |
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| development of in-house or branch distribution system |
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| RCAA, Dual system. Gave majors control over indies |
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| device developed by Steve Jobs |
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| died August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee |
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| disaster that caused Congress to require wireless communication |
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| Dance clubs, black, older than teens, sharply dressed beautiful people |
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| disk jockey who played R&B in Cleveland and New York |
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| When company’s are over valued |
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| Producer, Raper, DJ, Death Row Records, NWA |
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| driving force behind payola investigations |
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| electricity in homes and businesses brought what changes |
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| Radio became center of entertainment |
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| 1979 EMI Music World Wide bought United Artists |
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| F.W. Woolworth's stores and the music industry |
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| Five and Dimes, leading seller of music. Discount retailing |
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| father of rhythm and blues |
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| fiddler who began the hillbilly record business |
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| first “superstation” on cable |
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| first family of country music |
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| first international recording star |
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| first major record studio in Nashville |
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| first movie where songs were sung |
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| first performing rights society |
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| first rock act whose album outsold their single |
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| first singer to tape his radio shows |
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| first singing cowboy star |
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| first solo recording "star" in country music |
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| first successful cast recording on record |
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| formation of Country Music Association |
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| 1958, at the disc jockey convention at opry. Primary purpose to push country music |
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| Ahmet Ertegan and Herb Abramson |
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| Glenn Wallichs, Johnny Mercer, George Buddy DeSlyva |
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| founded Death Row Records |
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| founded Electrical and Musical Industries |
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| Merging of Columbia Graphaphone Company and Gramaphone Company, Alfred North Clark and Louis Sterling |
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| Jim Stewart & Estelle Axton (Brother & Sister) |
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| founded the American Graphophone Company |
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| Formed by Alexander Graham Bell, Cousin Chichester Bell, and Charles |
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| founded the United States Gramophone Company |
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| founded the Victor Talking Machine Company |
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| Formed by Berliner and Johnson in 1901 to sell gramophones with Johnson's improvements |
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| founded Warner Brothers Records |
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| founder and owner of Curb Records |
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| Headed by Irving Green, this TV & radio company started releasing records in 1945. in 1947 they got the first office in Nashville of any lable with Les Hutchings in charge of it. |
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| founder of Republic Studios |
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| founders of A & M Records |
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| gathering for folk singers in early 1960s |
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| group who had the first jazz hit |
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| Original Dixie Land Jazz Band |
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| group who recorded "Nevermind" album |
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| head of Musicians Union in the 1940s |
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| James Petfillo, called musician strike in 1948 |
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| head of the Nashville office of Decca |
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| head of the Nashville office of RCA Victor |
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| host of American Bandstand on ABC |
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| incentives offered by music publishers to singers 1900-1925 |
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| Signers received free copies for the lead sheets and orchestration, their picture on the sheet music, and a royalty for selling the music. |
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| independent label that Elvis recorded for |
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| internet originally created by |
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| introduced compact discs in 1983 |
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| Founded / headed Mercury Records |
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| music store that helped sell more mp3’s |
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| Aberbach Bros, own hill and range |
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| 70's Christian counter culture |
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| Urban Cowboy, Grease, Saturday Night Fever |
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| Hammer please don’t hurt them |
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| major reason "big" bands had to be big |
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| no microphones or amplification |
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| major vehicle to promote R&B records |
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| Where people bought records in 90’s |
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| First keyboard synth, integrated with mac |
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| movement in country music led by Willie and Waylon |
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| movie that brought "cowboy" look back into country |
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| movie that captured the disco trend |
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| Started playing music vids, became a lifestyle channel |
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| White Singers, Black musicians. Stax Records, R%B |
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| music of African-Americans called during the 1960s |
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| music of early 1970s that began in dance clubs |
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| musical instrument manufactured in U. S. in 1820s |
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| name of Alan Freed's radio show |
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| moondog Show, Rock n’ Roll Party |
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| Early boy ban, Young group set to appeal to teens in 90's, from boston |
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| owner of the American Record Corporation |
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| Owners of Hill and Range Publishing |
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| Parents Music Resource Group |
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| percentage of American homes with cable TV |
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| performing rights organization formed by broadcasters |
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| Purchased Mercury, Developed Cassette, began experimenting with optical electronics in 1960s, developed CD with SOny |
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| combination of Dutch and German company. Sold to MCA 1998. |
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| place where initial recording sessions for Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family occured |
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| popularized "Spirituals" during 19th century |
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| popularized Stephen Foster's songs |
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| premier leader of western swing |
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| problems record companies faced during World War II |
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| Shortage of Shellac, people getting drafted. |
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| publishing company signed Hank Williams |
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| Anyone can play this, DIY |
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| purchased Arista Records in 1979 |
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| purchased Atlantic, Elektra, Asylum and Reprise |
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| purchased Mercury Records |
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| recorded Carson and Mami Smith, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family In Bristol TN |
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| rapper who was killed in Las Vegas |
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| reason(s) gangsta rap developed |
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| drugs, respect, lack of self expression, poor living conditions |
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| reasons sales of country recordings limited in 80s |
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| recorded Straight Outta Compton album |
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| RSO Records, major indie label that emerged in the 1970's |
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| royalty payment from 1909 Copyright Law |
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| sold Gene Autry records and guitars |
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| songs for cultured young ladies playing the piano |
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| songs which stereotyped blacks as laughable, comic, lazy |
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| songwriter established publishing company in Nashville during WWII |
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| Sony Corp of America vs. Universal City Studio |
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| Decided that it is legal to sell VCR's |
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| Layed foundation for music business, allowed ASCAP to collect royalties |
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| Founded King Records 1945 |
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| talent agency founded by Jules Stein |
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| talent scout who recorded Jimmie Rodgers and Carter Family |
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| tape machine developed by the Germans |
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| technologies that changed the music industry |
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| Internet, electricity, digital, LP, CD, ipod, itunes, Synth |
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| technologies that made music portable |
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| Cassette player, walkman, ipod |
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| Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
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| Allowed for people to own lots of radio and put local / long distance calls under same provider |
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| term for the summer of 1967 |
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| merging of time and Warner |
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| rapper signed to death row, killed in vegas |
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| TV channel created by Warner Communications |
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| TV channel that showed country music videos |
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| Travolta, brought country back |
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| Merged with AOl, Time, purchased Elektra, asylum, reprise |
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| Why country music heard more than blues during the 1930s |
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| why Nashville emerged as center for country music |
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| Music Row, Opry, Studios, |
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| Point and click for microsoft |
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| wrote "You're a Grand Ole Flag," "Over There," "Give My Regards to Broadway" |
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| MTV Rap show with Dr. Dre and others |
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| Formed Jive. Had N sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney. Bought by BMG in 2002. formed by Clive Calder and Ralph Simon in South Africa. |
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| biggest "star" of Opry during World War II |
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| MTV debuted 1448 first cable to rural areas. Approximately 16 million households had cable by the end of the 1970s. |
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| cornet player who "defined" jazz |
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| disk jockey who began "Make Believe Ballroom" |
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| investor behind the purchase of Warner Brothers |
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| first music industry "trade" magazine |
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| Music Promoters, Purchasers |
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| formation of Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) |
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| Reaction to Discount Selling |
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| 1965-1978, diviorce, individual, personal > family |
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| American entertainer, Vaudeville, composer of "you're a grand ole flag", and "Give my regards to broadway" |
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| Geffen & A&M merged into interscope, created by Jimmy Lovine and Ted Field |
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| led group of investors to purchase Warner Brothers in 2004 |
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| middle class teens, punk music |
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| major reason for success of independent labels |
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| major labels did not do R&B. People liked blues |
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| Developed the VHS, industrial electrical company purchased MCA |
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| describes the demographic cohort following Generation X. As there are no precise dates for when the Millennial generation starts and ends, commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. |
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| Center for country music, location of RCA studios, and where Tin Pan Alley moved. |
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| national advertiser on the Grand Ole Opry |
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| performing rights organization formed by ASCAP executive |
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| print outlet for contemporary Christian music |
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| CCM (Contemporary Christian Magazine |
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| published "Heartbreak Hotel" |
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| purchased RCA Records in 1987 |
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| purchased the American Record Company |
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| purchased Warner Brothers in 2004 |
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| radio show that inspired consumers to purchase radios in 20s |
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| reasons for growth of contemporary Christian music in 90's |
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| German Soldier Made BMG Huge |
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| responsible for country music receiving national popular acceptance |
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| rock'n'roll network television show |
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| Scottish songwriter considered the "grandfather" of songwriters |
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| sells over half of contemporary Christian albums |
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| CCM (Contemporary Christian Magazine) |
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| founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka, purchased CBS and BMG, VHS, Beta. |
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| term when country music cultivated a "smooth" sound |
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| Tokyo Telecommunications Research Laboratories Inc. |
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| Mararu Ibuka and Morita Founded in 1946 with $500 in capital, evolved into Sony. |
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