This allowed for sound to be recorded, erased, and re-recorded on the same tape many times.
What is a Magnetic Tape Recorder.
100
This person became the most influential disc jockey and started the term "rock and roll".
Who is Alan Freed.
100
A radio format where the same 40 tunes were repeated every 24 hour radio cycle.
What is the Top 40
100
"Hound Dog"
Who is Elvis Presley.
100
Elvis Presley
What is "Jail House Rock"
200
A type of record that plays 45 revolutions per minute but had a limit of approximately 3-4 minutes per side.
What is a 45 RPM
200
This person was the first to achieve commercial success with crossover versions of rhythm and blues.
Who is Bill Haley
200
This is the person who introduces and plays the music on the radio.
What is a disc jockey.
200
"Great Balls of Fire"
Who is Jerry Lee Lewis
200
By Jerry Lee Lewis
What is "Breathless"
300
A song that is re-recorded by another artist.
What is a cover version.
300
This artist was not a song writer, but played guitar and popularized cover versions.
Who is Elvis Presley
300
This term represents the rhythm and blues music of African American artists that Alan Freed played on the radio.
What is rock and roll
300
"Ring of Fire"
Who is Johnny Cash
300
By Elvis Presley
What is "Blue Suede Shoes"
400
To modify black artists' rhythm and blues songs in order to make them more appropriate for white audiences.
What is the purpose of cover versions
400
This artist was one of the only to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Who is Johnny Cash
400
This term represents a hybrid genre of rock and roll and hillbilly music performed mostly by Southern white artists.
What is rockabilly.
400
"Words of Love"
Who is Buddy Holly
400
By Buddy Holly
What is "Peggy Sue"
500
A radio that was founding cars that was developed by the Bell Laboratory in 1947 that made music more accessible everywhere you went.
What is a Transistor Radio.
500
This artist was the first "bad boy" of rock and roll who had a controversy that led to the demise of his career.
Who is Jerry Lee Lewis.
500
This term means the additional syllables added to words for expressive effects.