1950s Popular Music
This was Elvis's first #1 single.
What is "Heartbreak Hotel"?
This is the TV show on which the Beatles performed when they first arrived in America.
What is The Ed Sullivan Show?
Before he moved to New York City, Bob Dylan called this US state home.
What is Minnesota?
This is the US city that was home to the Motown record label.
Where is Detroit?
This Beach Boys album helped to usher in the experimental era of psychedelic rock.
What is Pet Sounds?
This hybrid style of rock was popularized by artists like Elvis and Carl Perkins.
What is rockabilly?
The scene in Liverpool that gave rise to groups like the Beatles was known as this:
What is Merseybeat?
This was the vocalist whose rendition of "God Bless America" inspired Woody Guthrie to write "This Land Is Your Land".
Who is Kate Smith?
The Motown record label went by this nickname.
What is "Hitsville USA"?
This was the year in which the so-called "Summer of Love" occurred.
What is 1967?
The Everly Brothers fused together these two 1950s popular styles of music.
What are country and traditional pop?
This older form of American folk music was popularized by artists like Lonnie Donegan in England.
What is skiffle?
This was the year that Dylan plugged in at Newport and went electric.
What is 1965?
This was the Motown star who wrote the music for "My Girl" and then taught it to the Temptations.
Who is Smokey Robinson?
The band most closely tied to the Summer of Love was this psychedelic group.
Who were the Grateful Dead?
This is the meaning of the letters "BB" in the name of blues guitarist BB King.
What is "Blues Boy"?
This was the month and year that is generally regarded as the beginning of the British Invasion in America.
When was February 1964?
This Bob Dylan song chronicles a woman's fall from grace and her ensuing life as a commoner.
What is "Like a Rolling Stone"?
This was the name of the collective of musicians who supplied most of the instrumentation on Motown's most famous releases.
Who were the Funk Brothers?
This psychedelic guru's most famous phrase was "turn on, tune in, drop out".
Who was Timothy Leary?
This is the name of the radio DJ credited with coining the term "rock n' roll".
Who was Alan Freed?
The Rolling Stones took their name from a song by this American blues musician.
Who was Muddy Waters?
This Pete Seeger song would later famously be covered in a folk rock style by The Byrds.
What is "Turn, Turn, Turn"?
This man was the infamous head of the Motown record label.
Who is Berry Gordy?
These infamous LSD-fueled parties hosted by Ken Kesey were a core part of the psychedelic experience.
What were the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests?