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Music History Quiz 7
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11/16/2008

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The fastest rising radio format of the 1970s, playing the music of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston, Foreigner, and Styx was called:
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AOR (Album Oriented Radio)
Term
Who was the British act that relocated to California, changed personnel and released an album that was in the top position of the Bilboard charts for 31 weeks?
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Fleetwood Mac
Term
The Carpenters, Barbara Streisand, and Neil Diamond records usually fall into what musical category?
Definition
Easy listening
Term
Which MOR format act had their first chart hit with a newer version of Bacharach's and David's Close To You?
Definition
The Carpenters
Term
Which 2 people teamed up to compose the musicals Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita?
Definition
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Term
What does "MOR" stand for?
Definition
Middle of the Road
Term
What artist sold the most hit singles in the 1970s?
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Elton John
Term
During what year did the Jackson Five have four Number One hit singles?
Definition
1970
Term
When did the Jackson Five sign to Motown?
Definition
1969
Term
What was Motown's last super-group?
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The Jackson Five
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Which artist gained control over his recording projects during a contract renewal, and released two albums in 1972 that resulted in 5 Grammy Award wins?
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Stevie Wonder
Term
What Motown artist broke from the label's traditional use of pro-songwriters and producers, and self-produced a record reflecting life and hope in the black community against Barry Gordy's advice?
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Stevie Wonder
Term
What event initiated a more focused, sober realism in R&B and soul music in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Definition
Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Term
What singer repeatedly hit the 1970s soul charts with smoothly arranged string and horn driven tracks, and became a minister in his own Memphis church while still cutting soul records?
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Al Green
Term
Which soul artist was in a group that openly sang about civil rights in the 1960s, and became a hit solo artist when he defined the morality of a Chicago drug dealer in a movie soundtrack?
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Curtis Mayfield
Term
What R&B Philidelphia production team wrote songs with a straight, danceable beat, lush arrangement, and catchy, soulful singing for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blues Notes, and others that would become popular in New York clubs as the signature "disco" sound?
Definition
Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
Term
Who revolutioned dance venues by using music to create a meditative environment, rather than a vehicle for selling alcohol?
Definition
DJ David Mancuso
Term
What musical trend originated the commercialy released 12-inch single, making room for extended mixes that included instrumental breaks?
Definition
Disco
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Which producer brought Donna Summer to the U.S. Top 10 with a dance track that heavily employed synthesizers, creating the signature Euro-disco sound?
Definition
Giorgio Moroder
Term
Trevor Hastings is a ________
Definition
faggot. .... we were looking for faggot.
Term
Which club's theme parties and celebrity focus made going to a disco a media/fashion event, rather than a musical event in 1977?
Definition
Studio 54
Term
What movie inspired the disco craze that swept the nation in 1977?
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Saturday Night Fever
Term
William Sharkey has a _________
Definition
tiny penis. .... we were looking for the tiny penis. (no pun intended)
Term
What year was George Clinton's DooWop group, The Parliaments, founded?
Definition
1955
Term
What artist and producer's own hard funk acts started to have chart hits after incorporating members of James Brown's JBs?
Definition
George Clinton
Term
Which two artists performed AfroCentric poetry on records - an important 1960s and 1970s precursor to the social themes in rap music?
Definition
Last Poet and The Black Panthers
Term
Who added poetry to jazz and soul, creating the protest masterpiece The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?
Definition
Gil-Scott Heron
Term
What NYC neighborhood became the main home for Puerto Ricans settling in the U.S., and spawned a musical fusion of funk, soul, and rock with Latin sounds?
Definition
El Barrio (Spanish Harlem)
Term
Stephan Cotterell likes to _______
Definition
suck big dick. ... we were looking for suck big dick.
Term
What record label, begun by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Macsucci in 1964, recorded New York salsa musicians such as Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, and Eddie Palmeri?
Definition
Fania Records
Term
Which Jamaican pop style directly replaced ska when artists slowed down the tempos, and singers were able to croon over more syncopated grooves?
Definition
Rocksteady
Term
Which producer owned the Downbeat sound system, Studio One Records and was the first to record The Wailers, yeilding over 100 of their tracks?
Definition
Coxsone Blackwell
Term
To what societal group did The Wailers direct their first Jamaican hit song, Simmer Down?
Definition
Kingston's rude-boy culture
Term
Which combonation of vocalists wrote and sang for The Wailers at the time they were first signed to Island Records?
Definition
Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Jimmy Cliff
Term
Which Jamaican engineer recorded the first hit singles by a toasting DJ and made significant engineering and remixing contributions to the dub style?
Definition
Ruddy Redwood
Term
Mark Nikollaj likes to _________
Definition
suck fat, juicy, hairy, moldy, smelly, disgusting vagina. ... we were looking for suck fat, juicy, hairy, moldy, smelly, disgusting vagina.
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Who was one of The Wailer's producers and was known as the "Phil Spector of reggae" due to his wild engineering experiments?
Definition
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Term
Where did Rap/Hip-Hop originate?
Definition
The Bronx
Term
Who was the graffiti-ing Jamaican transplant to the South Bronx that introduced the combined concept of DJing repeated "breaks" for break dancers while MCing through his own party crew?
Definition
Kool Herc
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What Bronx DJ is first credited with repeating the rhythm break section using two copies of the same record to facilitate break dance routines?
Definition
Kool Herc
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What DJ is first credited with back-timing and backspinning to repeat-play a section of music without losing the beat?
Definition
Grandmaster Flash
Term
Which two Bronx DJs claimed to have invented the scratch technique?
Definition
Grand Wizard Theodore and Grandmaster Flash
Term
What German electronic band blended electronic beats with minimalism, becoming the single most influence on electronic dance and electro to this day?
Definition
Kraftwerk
Term
What are the commonly noted elements that compromise Hip Hop culture?
Definition
Music of the DJ, the creative athleticism of the breakdance crews, and brilliant graffiti hit and run artists
Term
What is the name of the famous NY Bowery bar known to this day for birthing the US punk scene?
Definition
CBGB
Term
Which performing poet act signed to Clive Davis's Arista label after he witnessed a series of concerts at CBGB?
Definition
Patti Smith
Term
Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage and went on to have four number one singles in the US charts?
Definition
Blondie
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Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage, hired Brian Eno to produce them, using Eno's influence to incorporate funk and African music to their initial styles?
Definition
Talking Heads
Term
Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage and created a music formula that is most identifiable with what is known as punk rock music to this day?
Definition
The Ramones
Term
What act was the first of the punk era bands on the CBGB stage and recorded Marquee Moon - a record commonly regarded as on the 10 best rock records of the 1970s?
Definition
Television
Term
Who was the Sex Pistols manager, who picked up fashion and attitude cues from New York's CBGB bands?
Definition
Malcolm McLaren
Term
What British punk band opened for the Sex Pistols "Anarchy of the UK" tour, later finding their American fame culminating in a US Top 10 single and a live performance at Shea Stadium?
Definition
The Clash
Term
What was the name of Malcolm McLaren's fashion store in London?
Definition
Sex
Term
What were we really looking forrr for all the answers ?
Definition
Luke's GAY! Im afraid we found it and the search is over judges yes luke's gay thats exactly what we were looking for !

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