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MUH2019
Test 2 TERMS
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Music
Undergraduate 1
02/28/2012

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Frank Sinatra
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Nancy (Withe the Laughing Face); Theme from New York, New York
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Eddy Arnold
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Make the World Go Away
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Louis Jordan
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Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
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Muddy Waters
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I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
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Fats Domino
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Tuttie Frutti; I'm Walking; Blueberry Hill
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"Big Mama" Thornton
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Hound Dog
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Connie Frances
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Who's Sorry Now?
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Crystals
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Uptown (Phil Spector Production)
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Elvis Presley
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Don't Be Cruel; Hound Dog
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The Dominoes
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Sixty Minute Man; Have Mercy Baby
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The Rolling Stones
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
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Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass
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The Lonely Bull; A Taste of Honey
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Charles Brown
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Black Night
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Buddy Holly
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Peggy Sue; That'll Be the Day
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Ray Barretto
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El Watusi
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Ruth Brown
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Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
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The Beach Boys
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Surfin' USA; Good Vibrations
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Ramon Santamaria
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Watermelon Man
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Ritchie Valens
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La Bamba
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The Weavers
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Goodnight Irene
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Bill Haley
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Rock Around the Clock
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Kitty Wells
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It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels
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Wanda Jackson
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Lets Have a Party
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Hank Williams
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I'm so Lonesome, I Could Cry; Hey, Good Lookin'
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Joao Gilberto
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The Girl from Ipanema
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Ike Turner
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Rocket 88 (First rock song)
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The Coasters
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Charlie Brown
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Nat "King" Cole
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Unforgettable; Mona Lisa
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Chuck Berry
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Maybellene; Johhny B. Goode
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The Beatles
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Please Please Me; A Hard Days Night; Yesterday; Eleanor Rigby
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Bill Monroe
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It's Mighty Dark to Travel
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Perez Prado
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Mambo No. 5
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The Supremes
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You Can't Hurry Love (Motown)
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Little Richard
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Long Tall Sally
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Ronettes
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Be My Baby (Phil Spector Production)
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Chubby Checker
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The Twist
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The Temptations
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My Girl (Motown)
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"Top 40" Radio Programming
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another attempt to control the uncertainty of the marketplace. Developed in the early 1950s by Todd Storz, a disc jockey in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Payola
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record companies paid DJs to put their records into "heavy rotation"
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New Technology
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identity
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Magnetic tape
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used in recording studios that made higher quality sound
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FM Radio
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frequency modulation, great sounding radio better than AM
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LPs
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long playing records. 12 inch disks. 20-25 minutes of recordings on each side of record
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45s
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revolution per minute. Could be stacked and automatically went to next one
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Television
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helped artists gain national popularity
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Bobby soxers
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thousands of teenage girl fans of Sinatra and the Goodman band
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Billboard: A music trade journal
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an advertisement that appeared in the music trade journal. First ratings of songs like the top 40
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"Rhythm & Blues" and "Country & Western"
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new terms used by Billboard as more dignified and up-to-date replacements for "Race" and "Hillbilly," respectively.
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WDIA, Memphis
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first radio station dedicated exclusively to playing music for a black audience. Featuring the popular blues musician and disk jockey B.B. King.
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"covering" a song or "cover version"
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crucial to the increasing crossover success of black music during the 1950's
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jump blues
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the first commercially successful category of rhythm and blues, flourished during and just after WWII.
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Rock'n'Roll
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first used for commercial and generational purposes by disk jockey Alan Freed. Derived from rocking and rollin. Used to describe records.
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Alan Freed
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was an EJ. Got caught up in the payola scandals. Was accepting bribes for playing records on the radio station. First guy to popularize the term, "Rock and Roll."
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cover version
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two versions of the same song sang by two different artists. (Usually white artist covering a black artists song)(whites sold more)
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solid-body electric guitar
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the first commercially produced was the Fender Broadcaster (soon renamed the Telecaster), a brainchild of Leo Fender and George Fullerton. Was released in 1948, featured two electronic pickups, knobs to control volume and tone (timbre), and a switch that allowed the two pickups to be used alone or together
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the twist
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irst popular non partner dance. Teen-oriented rock 'n' roll song sin a twelve-bar blues structure; it celebrated a simple, hip-swiveling dance step that was gaining some popularity among young African Americans.
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Chubby Checker
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second artist to come out with the twist. Made it very popular. Covered it. Real name was Ernest Evans.
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American Bandstand
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young people had opportunity to observe dance and songs on it.
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Phil Spector
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had a Number One record as a member of a vocal group, the Teddy Bears, whose hit song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" was also composed and produced by Spector. Record producer who came out with Philles Records and who brought depth of meaning to the phrase "in charge." The wall of sound.
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Phillies Records
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helped establish a new and important model for the production and marketing of pop records. Phil Spector's recording company.
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"Wall of Sound"
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the characteristic Phillies sound was remarkably dense and remarkably clear, and it became known as this. Spector achieved this effect by having multiple instruments- pianos, guitars, and so forth--doubling each individual part in the arrangement, and by using a huge amount of echo, while carefully controlling the overall balance of the record so that the vocals were pushed clearly to the front.
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teenage symphonies
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it was at this point that what you bought on a record from a store was much different than what you heard live. Very popular. Recordings varied from concerts to studio, did more in studio (more instruments)
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Gold Star Studios
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Spector's own preferred recording venue in Los Angeles. The studio musicians with whom Spector worked regularly with at Gold Star Studios came to be known as the "wrecking crew"
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"wrecking crew"
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the studio musicians with whom Spector worked with regularly at Gold Stat Studios. individually and collectively they made essential contributions to a remarkable number of hit records from the 1960s on. Among the best known of these musicians are Hal Blaine, drummer; Carol Kaye, bassist; and Jack Nitzsche, arranger and percussionist.
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Berry Gordy
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created his own songwriting/producing/marketing organization alined lines directly analogous to Philles Records. Created Motown.
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Motown
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songwriting/producing/marketing organization that came to be a success story that surpassed even that of Philles; more importantly it came to be the most stunning success story in the entire history of African American businesses in this country.
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Funk Brothers
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Motown's sterling house band. The assured that the highest level of instrumental musicianship was always present to back up and inspire the vocal performers. Bass player James Jamerson, drummer Benny Benjamin, and keyboardist Earl Van Dyke were among the most important contributors to the Motown sound.
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Brian Wilson
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formed the Beach Boys with his two brothers, a cousin, and a friend in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. He was the songwriter, arranger, producer, and performer, he was the guiding spirit of the Beach Boys during the first decade of the group's existence, when their artistic and commercial importance and influence were at a peak.
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The Beach Boys
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band achieved notational chart hits within a year and thrived right through the period of the "British Invasion" to become not only the bestselling American group of the 1960s but probably the most nationally and internationally celebrated American rock group ever--certainly the one with the longest history of chart success.
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second generation rock'n'roller
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Brian wilson was the first second-generation rock 'n' roller. He made new group by deliberately moving the lyrics and music of his own songs beyond the territory carved for him. Other second-generation rock 'n' rollers included the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and other bands)
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The Beatles
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achieved a stable lineup by 1962 consisting of John Lennon and George Harrison (lead and rhythm guitars and vocals), Paul McCartney (bass and vocals), and Ringo Starr (drums and occasional vocals).
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British Invasion bands
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included the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Who, the Kinks, and Eric Clapton all remained closer to these roots, on the whole, during their careers than did the Beatles.
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concept album
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an album conceived as an integrated whole, with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence (The listening sequence was easier to mandate, obviously, in the days of long-playing records with two numbered sides, played on phonographs without remote controls, than in today's world of single-sided compacted discs and iPods.)
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Latin soul
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this music pushed its way onto the pop charts in 1963. The biggest hit was "Watermelon Man," recorded by Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria.
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bassa nova
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the Brazilian genre which gave rise to mass popularity in the early 1960's. Was a blend of samba rhythms, a sophisticated Brazilian tradition of song composition, and the west coast style of modern jazz, which emphasized relaxed tempos, sophisticated harmonies, and a cool, cerebral emotional atmosphere.
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ameriachi
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Latin-American stream music. Very popular in the 60's. "The Lonely Bull" is an instructive example of the Tijuana Brass' "Ameriachi" sound. The recordings open with crowd sounds recorded at a bullfight, an audio vert experience meant to temporarily relocate the listener to Mexico.
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