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| What country is the home of Andrew Lloyd Webber? |
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| The Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Diamond records usually fall into what musical category? |
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| Close to you, the carpenter's first big hit, was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal Davis |
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| What was Barbra Streisands unique formula that led her to become one of the best selling artists of all time? |
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| She married her Broadway musical singing talents with film acting |
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| What artist sold the most hit singles in the 1970s? |
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| During what year did the Jackson Five have four US number one hit singles? |
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| When did the Jackson Five sign to Motown? |
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| Motown's last super group? |
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| What Motown artist broke from the labels traditional use of pro songwriters and producers and self produced a record reflecting life and hope in the black community against Berry Gordys advice? |
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| What happened to the Mood of popular Soul music after 1968 and why> |
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| Many soul artists recorded songs dealing with more sober and political topics in reacttion to the death of MLK and the failure of the Civil Rights movement |
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| What singer topped the soul charts in the 1970s and became a minister in his own Memphis church while still cutting R&B records? |
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| What R&B philadelphia production team wrote songs with a straight danceable beaat lush arrangements |
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| Who revolutionized dance venues by using music to create a meditative environment, rather thaan a vehicle for selling alchohol? |
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| What musical trend originated the commercially released 12 inch single? |
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| Which producer brought Donna Summer to the US top 10 with a dance track that heavilyy employed synthesizers, creating the signature Euro disco sound? |
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| George Clinton made albums with two different group names.... |
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| Parliament and Funkadelic |
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| What made George Clintons band stand apart from other funk bands, other than their music? |
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| Outrageous staging, costumes and characters |
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| What soul singer portrayed life on the streets of South Chicago in blaxpoitation... |
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| Which two of the following artists performed Afro Centric poetry, an important feature in pre-rap 1960s and 70s? |
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| Gil Scott Heron and The Last Poets |
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| What artist was critically acclaimed as an author before releasing the spoken word over a beat masterpiece? |
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| Where did the majority of Boricuas moving to the US Settle? |
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| Which description best outlines the Rocksteady styles?> |
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| The tempo is slower than ska and crooning soul singing styles returned to Jamaican singles |
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| Which producer owned the Downbeat sound system |
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| Who started Island Records |
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| To what societal group did the Wailers direct their first hit song? |
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| Which combination of vocalist wrote and sang The Wailerrs at the time they were first signed to Island Records? |
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| Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston and Peter Tosh |
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| Which engineer/producer recorded the first hit singles by a toasting DJ and made singnificant technical contributions to the dub style? |
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| What Jamaican producer was best known as the Phil Spector of reggae? |
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