Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Recording Industry Test 3
Section 3
99
History
Undergraduate 1
11/09/2008

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
Definition
The Beatles
Term
Who said: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink... we're more popular than Jesus now."
Definition
John Lennon
Term
"King of Rock'n'Roll"
Definition
Elvis
Term
Who hosted the "Rock'n'Roll Party" on the radio?
Definition
Alan Freed
Term
Who sang "Tom Dooley"
Definition
Kingston Trio; 1958; Folk Music
Term
Who was Alan Freed?
Definition
Radio man. "Moondog Show" "Rock'n'Roll Party" and Copyrighted "Rock'N'Roll" term
Term
American physicist that developed noise reduction unit
Definition
Ray Dolby
Term
Who sang "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"
Definition
Righteous Brothers
Term
Who sang "Rock Around the Clock"
Definition
Bill Haley & the Comets
Term
When was Beatlemania
Definition
Sunday, October 13, 1963
Term
Beatles first hit single in America
Definition
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
Term
Beatles first movie
Definition
"A Hard Day's Night"
Term
Began FM "underground radio"
Definition
"Big Daddy" Tom Donahue
Term
Benefit concert organized by George Harrison
Definition
Concert for Bangledash
Term
Big band performer with TV show in the 1960s
Definition
Lawrence Welk
Term
Blackboard Jungle
Definition
Movie credited with Rock'n'Roll revolution; featured Bill Haley & the Comets
Term
Manager of the Beatles
Definition
Brian Epstein
Term
Brill Building
Definition
1619 Broadway
Term
British Invasion
Definition
1964 when Dave Clark Five, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones invaded America
Term
Built the first recording studio on Music Row
Definition
Owen Bradley
Term
Center for alternative country music
Definition
Austin, TX
Term
Center for hippies and flower power
Definition
San Fransisco
Term
City in England where The Beatles originated
Definition
Liverpool
Term
city where FM "progressive" radio began
Definition
San Fransisco
Term
Elvis' manager
Definition
Colonel Tom Parker
Term
Copyrighted the term "rock'n'roll"
Definition
Alan Freed
Term
Country Music Association (CMA)
Definition
1958; Nashville
Term
Credited with founding music row
Definition
Owen Bradley & Chet Atkins
Term
Developed the cassette tape
Definition
Philips Company in 1962
Term
Developed Top 40 radio
Definition
Todd Storz
Term
When did Elvis die?
Definition
August, 1977
Term
When did Bing Crosby die?
Definition
October, 1977
Term
Dominant record buyers in the 1959s
Definition
Teenagers
Term
First rock album that outsold the single
Definition
The Beatles, "Meet the Beatles"
Term
sang with audience; acoustic
Definition
Folk Music
Term
Founded A&M Records
Definition
Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Term
Founded Asylum Records
Definition
David Geffen
Term
Founded Curb Records
Definition
Mike Curb
Term
Founded Dot Records
Definition
Randy Wood
Term
Founded Motown Records
Definition
Berry Gordy, Jr.
Term
Founded Reprise Records
Definition
Frank Sinatra
Term
Founded Stax
Definition
Jim Stewart & Estelle Axton (Brother & Sister)
Term
Founded Vee Jay
Definition
Vivian Carter
Term
Founded Warner Brothers Records
Definition
Jack Warner
Term
Beatles Producer
Definition
George Martin
Term
Gold Record
Definition
1958; RIAA; Given to artists who sold 1 million copies
Term
Grammy
Definition
NARAS "artist creativity"
Term
Guitar player and studio wizard
Definition
Les Paul
Term
Head of Columbia in 1967
Definition
Clive Davis
Term
Head of Nashville office of Decca
Definition
Owen Bradley
Term
Head of Nashville office of RCA Victor
Definition
Chet Atkins
Term
Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
Definition
A & M Records
Term
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Definition
A&M "The Lonely Bull"
Term
Founded The Holiday Inn
Definition
Kemmons Wilson
Term
Host of American Bandstand
Definition
Dick Clark
Term
Independent label founded by Ahmet Ertegan and Herb Abramson
Definition
Atlantic Records
Term
Independent label founded in Chicago by two brothers
Definition
Chess Records
Term
Independent label in Memphis that recorded Elvis
Definition
RCA Victor or Sun Records
Term
Independent label in Memphis that recorded Otis Redding
Definition
Stax Records
Term
1957 elected chair of the Grammys; organized the Grammys
Definition
James Conkling
Term
Label of the Supremes, Temptations, & Four Tops
Definition
MoTown
Term
manager of Bob Dylan
Definition
Albert Grossman
Term
Manager of Elvis Presley
Definition
Colonel Tom Parker
Term
Founder of McDonalds
Definition
Ray Kroc
Term
Memphis, TN
Definition
Stax Records; Integrated black & whites. Soul music.
Term
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Definition
Musicians were white, singers were black
Term
Nashville Sound
Definition
Big band sound mixed with Country
Term
National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences
Definition
NARAS; Made Grammys
Term
Newport Folk Festival
Definition
1963; Apex of Folk music; Dylan goes electric
Term
Outdoor rock'n'roll concert in 1967
Definition
Monterey Pop Festival
Term
Outdoor rock'n'roll concert in 1969
Definition
Woodstock
Term
Outlaw Movement
Definition
Country singers return to Cowboys; 1970s; Austin, TX
Term
Payola scandals
Definition
Rigged TV Quiz Shows
Term
Polygram
Definition
Use to be Mercury Records
Term
PRO behind Congressional investigations of payola
Definition
Federal Trade Commission (FTC); ASCAP
Term
Producer of the "Wall of Sound"
Definition
Phil Spector
Term
Purchased Atalntic, Elektra, and Reprise Records
Definition
Warner Brothers
Term
Purchased Capitol Records
Definition
EMI
Term
Purchased Decca Records
Definition
MCA
Term
Purchased Mercury Records
Definition
Philips
Term
RCA A&R Man who signed Elvis
Definition
Sam Phillips
Term
Rock'n'roll star on "The Ozzie and Harriet Show"
Definition
Ricky Nelson
Term
Soul Music
Definition
Black working class
Term
"Voice of a generation"
Definition
Bob Dylan
Term
The Monkees
Definition
Wannabe Beatles; TV 1966
Term
TV Show hosted by Don Cornelius
Definition
Soul Train
Term
TV show that introduced Beatles to America
Definition
Ed Sullivan Show
Term
underground or progressive rock
Definition
Mainly college students; Tom Donahue; Left-winged commentary
Term
What made music portable
Definition
Cassettes
Term
Why 8-tracks dominated over cassettes
Definition
Doubled playing time (Tom Lear)
Term
Writers of Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Definition
Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice
Term
Wrote "Maybellene" and "Johnny B. Goode"
Definition
Chuck Berry
Term
Year the industry passed the billion dollar mark
Definition
1967
Term
What were "LP's"?
Definition
LONG PLAY RECORDS
Term
PRO that was a major licenser of Rock'N'Roll
Definition
BMI
Term
POPULAR METHOD OF MARKETING RECORDS DIRECTLY TO CONSUMERS
Definition
Record Clubs
Term
Most popular song of 1955 - Disney Classic
Definition
Davey Crockett
Term
ANCESTOR TO THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
Definition
Country and Western Disk Jockeys Association
Term
Distributed Beatles music in US
Definition
Capitol
Supporting users have an ad free experience!