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| First popular disco band. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack |
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| 1948 to rural areas: by 1970 16 million households had it |
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| Created the "wall of sound" |
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| Created the Apple Computer |
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| Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak |
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| Created the sons of the pioneers |
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| Curb Records, Founded by Mike Curb |
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| Created Geffen records, home to Nirvana |
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| Hip Hop Label started by Rick Rubin |
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| Developed black gospel quartets |
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| Developed the noise reduction unit |
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| Developed the cassette tape |
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| Developed the World Wide Web |
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| Disaster that caused Congress to require wireless communication |
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| Disk Jockey who began "Make Believe Ballroom" |
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| Death Row Records, Member of NWA, Hosted Yo! MTV Raps |
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| Investment group that purchased Warner Brothers |
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| british firm that had control of American owned Capitol, purchased United Artists, then merged with Thorn Electronics: Thorn-EMI |
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| Father of rhythm and blues |
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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 movie where songs were sung |
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| F.W. Woolworth's stores and the music industry |
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| Started the Five and Dime Stores |
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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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| First singing cowboy star |
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| First rock act whose album outsold their single |
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| First major record studio in Nashville |
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| Plane Crash that killed; "The Big Bopper", Richie Vallans, and Buddy Holly |
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| Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka |
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| Area in New York for songwriters and publishers |
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| Artist who hit with "Rock Around the Clock" |
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| Award from the Gospel Music Association |
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| Bandleader known as the "King of Jazz" |
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| Bandleader who established himself at the Cotton Club |
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| Bandleader who worked with the dancing castles |
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| Barcode Technology used by Billboard |
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| Someone plays all instruments by themselves |
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| First popular disco band. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack |
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| Began Experimenting with optical electronics in 1960s |
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| Big Band performer on primetime tv in 1960s |
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| Biggest "star" of Opry during WW2 |
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| Effective January of 2009 |
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| Bobby Sox idol who emerged in 1943 |
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| Scan's radio for number of plays |
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| Built first recording studio on Music Row |
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| 1948 to rural areas: by 1970 16 million households had it |
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| Character and hit song developed by Walt Disney |
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| Two Buildings in New York, young Tin Pan Alley |
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| Colorful Clothes designer in Hollywood |
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| Composer of "Stars and Stripes Forever" |
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| Contemporary Christian Magazine |
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| Gave contemporary music it's name |
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| Cornet player who "defined" jazz |
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| Created the "wall of sound" |
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| Created the Apple Computer |
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| Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak |
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| Created the sons of the pioneers |
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| Curb Records, Founded by Mike Curb |
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| Created Geffen records, home to Nirvana |
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| Hip Hop Label started by Rick Rubin |
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| Developed black gospel quartets |
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| Developed the noise reduction unit |
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| Developed the cassette tape |
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| Developed the World Wide Web |
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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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| Death Row Records, Member of NWA, Hosted Yo! MTV Raps |
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| Investment group that purchased Warner Brothers |
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| british firm that had control of American owned Capitol, purchased United Artists, then merged with Thorn Electronics: Thorn-EMI |
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| Event caused government to take over radio industry |
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| Father of rhythm and blues |
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| F.W. Woolworth's stores and the music industry |
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| Started the Five and Dime Stores |
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| First successful cast recording on record |
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| Leonard Chess and Phil Chess |
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| Alfred Clark & Louis Sterling |
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| Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton |
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| Founded the Victor Talking Machine Company |
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| Eldridge Johnson and Emile Berliner |
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| Founder(s) of Hill and Range Publishing |
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| Gene and Jullian Aberbauch |
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| Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka |
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| Founded by David Geffen. Nirvana was on that label |
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| 1965-1978, a time of a lot of divorce, out of wedlock births, disregard of children. Very individual. Low birth rate |
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| wrote "You're a Grand Ole Flag, " "Over There," and "Give My Regards to Broadway" |
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| Group who had the first jazz hit |
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| Group who recorded "Nevermind" |
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| Nirvana, in Seattle, Geffen Records |
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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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| Independent label that Elvis recorded for |
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| Introduced dances such as "The Fox Trot" |
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| Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter |
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| Mercury Radio Television label |
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| a movement in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980s. |
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| Owned by Zomba, N' Sync, Brittany Spears |
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| starred in movies like Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and Urban Cowboy. Big in the 70s |
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| manufacturer of earliest tape machines |
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| industrial electrical company purchased MCA |
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| movement in country music led by Willie and Waylon |
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| Outlaw Movement, Austin, TX |
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| milky white aura produced by "bunch" lights |
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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 the era of video, Music Television |
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| place where stax records had studio and recorded many r&b artists |
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| music of African-Americans called during the 1960s |
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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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| name of payments to D.J.'s by indie labels |
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| name of the dog in "His Master's Voice" |
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| new music pioneered by Benny Goodman in late 1930s |
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| origination of term "mechanicals" |
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| Collected from mechanical devices (piano roll) |
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| Speaker of Grand Ole Opry |
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| Owners of Hill and Range Publishing |
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| Parents Music Resource Group |
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| introduced warning stickers on albums |
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| percentage of American homes with cable TV |
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| place where initial recording sessions for Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family |
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| popularized "Spirituals" during 19th century |
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| popularized Stephen Foster's songs |
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| print outlet for contemporary Christian music |
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| PRO that licensed most rock'n'roll |
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| problems record companies faced during World War II |
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| shellac for records from India, wax from germany |
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| publishing company signed Hank Williams |
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| new wave punk 1974-1977 (Sex Pistols, The Ramones) fast, loud, abrasive music, not very musically talented "anybody can do this" |
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| purchased Arista Records in 1979 |
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| purchased Atlantic, Elektra, Asylum and Reprise |
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| purchased by Matsushita Electrical Industrial Company |
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| purchased by Seagrams in 1995 |
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| purchased CBS Records in 1987 |
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| purchased control of Capitol Records |
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| purchased controlling interest in Decca Records in 1962 |
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| purchased Mercury Records |
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| purchased most single records from major labels in 30s |
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| purchased Polygram in 1998 |
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| purchased RCA Records in 1987 |
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| purchased the American Record Company |
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| RCA in 1929 for $32 million |
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| purchased Warner Brothers in 2004 |
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| quintessential Tin Pan Alley songwriter |
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| Recorded the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. Field Recordings |
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| reason(s) gangsta rap developed |
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| "reality rap" by-product of crack explosion |
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| reasons for growth of contemporary Christian music in '90s |
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| recorded Straight Outta Compton album |
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| released album Slow Train Coming album |
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| rock'n'roll network television show |
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| "The Ozzie and Harriet Show" |
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| royalty payment from 1909 Copyright Law |
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| Charged publishers a fee of 2 cents per reproduction of piano rolls. First time musical reproduction was addressed in copyright |
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| joined Rick Rubin with Def Jam Records |
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| Scottish songwriter considered the "grandfather" of songwriters |
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| significance of the Netscape browser |
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| it sparked the internet boom |
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| songs which stereotyped blacks as laughable, comic, lazy |
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| label of "Rapper's Delight" |
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| artist of Rapper's Delight (first chart record rap song) |
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| co-founded Death Row Records |
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| talent agency founded by Jules Stein |
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| MCA. Music Corporation of America |
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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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| Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
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allowed companies to own a lot of radio stations, also allowed local and long distance companies to get into each others
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| Developed the World Wide Web |
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