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History of Rock
John Covach History of Rock
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10/19/2010

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Leo Mintz
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Record store owner and sponsor of The Moondog Show
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Alan Freed
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cleveland DJ; first DJ to play rhythm and blues on the radio, The Moondog Show; most influential in rock and roll's breakthrough to popular mainstream music; did the Rock and Roll Party in NYC; and the Big Beat concert tour; defeated by the payola scandal
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payola
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gifts for DJ's; record store giveaways; a spot in jukeboxes
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two charting magazines
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Cashbox and Billboard
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three chart genres of the 50's
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country and western; rhythm and blues; pop
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Fats Domino
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First to crossover into rock and roll;
New Orleans;Imperial records; easy-going image;
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Chuck Berry
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another first crossover to rock and roll; Chess records; St. Louis; R&B plus Country; targeted average teens; most imitated guitar style; clever, accomplished lyrics
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Little Richard
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flamboyant;manic singing and piano playing; wildman image of rock and roll; sexual lyrics
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Bill Haley
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one of the first successful white acts in Rock and Roll
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Pat Boone
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whitened covers of black rock
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Doo-wop
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originated from urban quartets, black; crossover to white music
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Elvis Presley
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first rock and roll artist to draw interest from major labels;
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Sam Phillips
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started Sun records and first signed Elvis Presley
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Colonel Tom Parker
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Elvis's manager
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Carl Perkins
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rockabilly; tennessee; Sun records; Blue Suede Shoes - million selling single from Sun; car accident hurt career; signed to Colombia with Cash
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Johnny Cash
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rockabilly; Sun records; signed to Colombia
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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Sun records shifted to him; hit songs; manic performing style; married to a thirteen year old
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Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent
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2 miscellaneous rockabilly artists on Sun records; killed/ injured in car accident
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Little Brenda Lee
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twelve year old rockabilly girl
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Janis Martin
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"female Elvis"; RCA records; Most Promising Female Artist by Billboard; career ruined by personal problems
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Wanda Jackson
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rockabilly girl that knew Elvis
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Buddy Holly
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first Rock figure to be influenced by early rock icons (influenced by Elvis, Berry and Little Richard); country twang; broad stylistic range of songwriting; died early in plane crash
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two set backs of that threatened rock and roll
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less rock icons and payola investigations
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how did these guys leave rock and roll?:
Little Richard, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry
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ministry, drafted, 13 year old wife, plane crash, Mann Act
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"gatekeepers"
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professionals with the power to expose a song to a broad audience
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1960
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1st wave of rock and roll dead by this date
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Brill Building
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Artist was not at the center of the process; Return to the way business had been done pre-rock; songwriting teams
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Aldon publishing
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Brill building leader
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American Bandstand
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Familiar radio show adapted to television
Best-known host was Dick Clark
Lip-synched performances
Facilitated interest in dancing
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The Twist
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Chubby Checker's cover that started named dance crazes
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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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first independent pop producers, wrote for Elvis and especially the Coasters
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Carole King and Gerry Goffin
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Will you still love me tomorrow - the shirelles; produced "taking on social issues
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Phil Spector
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wall of sound, most ambitious producer of the early 60s
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Sam Cooke
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light pop style with black elements; 29 on top 40; from Gospel to pop; shot in motel in 1964
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Ray Charles
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had a number two hit by setting a gospel tune to secular lyrics
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The Crowns
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The new band to take the Drifters' name
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Ben E King
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fired from Drifters because he claimed they were not paid enough, adopted by Leiber and Stoller
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George Treadwell
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manager or the Drifters
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Drifters and Ben King and soul
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established sweet soul as a style characterized by fluid lead vocal melody, often supported by doo op back up vocals, medium tempo, melodies in strings, sometimes Latin influenced
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Everly Brothers
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difficult signing, father a musician, both brothers wrote songs, clean and smooth, rockabilly
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Roy Orbison
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occupied number one slot for three weeks during British Invasion; haunted ballad singing and falsetto
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Ricky Nelson
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Stylistically combines the Everly rockabilly with good boy Pat Boone; well crafted records, didnt write own music
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Beach Boys
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influenced by black doo wop and white vocal groups; very influenced by producer Phil Spector; surfer music; harmonizing; clean Berry-esqe quitar
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Jan and Dean
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similar style as the Beach Boys
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Dick Dale and the Del-tones
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slid hand down guitar strings wihile picking rapidly. surf guitar
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Duane Eddy and the Ventures
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increased attention to instrumental playing; inspired by electric blues and jazz; instruments caught up with vocals
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There goes my baby - the drifters
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stuck between two radio channels? stings and doo wop
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call and response
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instrument or vocals immediately repeated by by others
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Be my baby - Phil Spector
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ronnetes song that "created an aural impression of grandness of scale that made it stand out from the rest of what was on the radio at the time; unique sound developed by ________
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Dont worry baby - beach boys
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imitation of Spector's work on Be my baby
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Aldon Publishing sold to Colombia Pictures
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down fall of Brill Building
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differences in UK music
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controlled by big companies and big labels; tough to be indie label; R&B and country records rarely in stores; American music and teen idolized by Brits; hard to make us charts
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Saturday Club
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BBC radio rock show with Brian Matthew
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skiffle
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folk music with big band jazz feel
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Lonnie Donegan
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most important in skiffle; influenced Beatles
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places the Beatles played before making it
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Hamburg, and Liverpool's Cavern Club
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Brian Epstein
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Beatles manager
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George Martin
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Beatles first producer
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beatles influences
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Elvis, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Little Richard, The Coasters, Ray Charles, girl group and Motown
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Capitol
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record company that thought Beatles would die out
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February 1964 "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
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month and year Beatles USA debut on Ed Sullivan and first US #1
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out of context Lennon remark '66
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its a sign of the poor health of religion in England that a Beatles concert could outdraw a church service
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Revolver
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album that the started the Beatles experimenting;
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Bob Dylan (Beatles)
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influenced the change in Beatles music (and POT)
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rock culture
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Beatles development brought a shift to a new seriousness and self consciousness among rock paving the way for _________
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British invasion
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guitars; long hair; marketing and image rather than stylistically
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Gerry and the Pacemakers
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Brian Epstein manager Liverpool band that sounds like the beatles
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Dave Clark Five
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more successfull than Gerry and the Pacemakers (though less than Beatles)
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The Beatles
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survived the demise of the British invasion
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Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies
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Blues players in London's Marquee Club, inspiring musician like Clapton, Richard and Jagger
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Giorgio Gomelsky
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first manager of Rolling Stones; manager and producer of Yardbirds; managed Crawdaddy Club
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Andrew Oldham and Eric Easton
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managed Rolling Stones; deal with Decca
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unprecedented deal with Decca
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Stones retain ownership of songs
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Andrew Oldham
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Producer of the Rolling Stones
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Andrew Oldham
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encourages Stones to be bab boys and to write own songs - locked in room
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raucousness of Rolling Stones
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riots and police interventions at their concerts
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AABA
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Brill Building song forms
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Eric Clapton "slowhand"
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strings broke on stage that he had to fix earned him this nickname
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rave-ups
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long improv instrumentation at the end of songs by the Yardbirds
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The Spencer Davis Group
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blues based, Rolling Stones - like band
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Shel Talmy
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Producer of the Kinks and the Who
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Mod (subculture)
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Significant elements of the mod subculture include: fashion (often tailor-made suits); pop music, including African American soul, Jamaican ska, and British beat music and R&B; and Italian motor scooters. The original mod scene was also associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing at clubs.[4] From the mid-to-late 1960s onwards, the mass media often used the term mod in a wider sense to describe anything that was believed to be popular, fashionable or modern. "The Who" Anti rocker
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Bob Dylan
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accomplished folk performer and songwriter
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Bob Dylan
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showed that pop music could address issues other than teenage romance and leisure, and this seriousness of purpose became a model for others.
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Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
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first international folk rock #1 hit
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McQuinn of The Byrds
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Brill Building writer for Bobby Darin
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The Byrds
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did rock versions of folk songs
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8 miles high - the Byrds
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First psychadelic rock
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Byrds, because of George Harrison
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used electric 12 string guitar because of _______
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The Wrecking Crew
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Band used for byrds AND Beach Boys backup
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Eve of Destruction by Barry McQuire
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one of the first original folk rock songs; not a folk song adapted to folk rock
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Eve of Destruction by Barry McQuire
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one of the first original folk rock songs; not a folk song adapted to folk rock
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Brian Wilson
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lead of beach boys
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Don Kirshner
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Manager of the Monkees and the Archies
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Berry Gordy Jr.
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Started Motown records; appeal to the whites to avoid cover; Brill building; artists portrayed class and sophistication;
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Maxine Powell
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Motown finishing school lady
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Smokey Robinson and Holland-Dozier-Holland
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motown producers that worked with the supremes
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Atlantic records
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Other R&B producing company in 60s
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Jerry Wexler
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music producer and partner; Atlantic records; coined the term R & B
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Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton
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Stax founders
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James Brown
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Most important black pop performer, doo wop to soul; in control of own music; little Richard stand in
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Timothy Leary
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Turn on, tune in, drop out
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Ken Kesey
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CIA tests with LSD; wrote one flew over the cukoo's nest
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Grateful Dead (The Warlocks)
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House band for Keseys acid tests
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Tom Donahue
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FM psychedelia
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counter melody
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2nd contrasting vocal melody
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