Mash-up
Genres
Singers/Bands
Musical Examples
Potpourri
100
What was the name of the TV show that launched Beatlemania?
What is the Ed Sullivan Show.
100
This type of music comes from the Appalachian region of the USA.
What is Country?
100
This singer's "Chantilly Lace" was a novelty in the 1950's.
Who is The Big Bopper (JP Richardson)
100
This type of song is a folk song from the Vera Cruz region of Mexico. Name the style and name the song.
La Bamba, Huapango
100
This club was the home of British rock.
What is the Cavern Club?
200
The songs of the late 1940's and early 1950s share this quality.
What is wholesome, and un-threatening?
200
This genre is marked by heavy distortion and introspective lyrics. Light shows sometimes accompany it...
What is Acid Rock?
200
This group started out as the Quarrymen in Liverpool.
Who are the Beatles?
200
Name the song and Band.
What is Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles?
200
This is a term for when a band appropriates a song originally performed by another artist.
What is a Cover?
300
The song Tequila was the first of this genre:
What is instrumental rock?
300
This style of music was played by Buddy Holly and the Crickets
What is Rockabilly?
300
This singer had to be edited on TV. He could only be shown from the waist up.
Who is Elvis Presley?
300
This song was ripped off and sung with different lyrics by the Beach Boys. What is this song and who sang it?
What is Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry?
300
What Detroit-based record company, founded by Barry Gordy Jr., was instrumental in distribution of music by Black artists?
What is Motown Records?
400
Jim Morrison of the doors wanted to be known as this type of artists, not just a singer.
What is a poet?
400
This music is identified by acoustic guitar and eclectic "hippie" clothing
What is Folk?
400
This group included a keyboard player who also played organ and harpsichord.
Who are the Doors?
400
This Song, based on the blues, was the first hit for Elvis Presley.
What is Heartbreak Hotel?
400
This was instrumental in bringing acts from regional popularity to national popularity.
What is Radio?
500
This Band was known as the "Bad Boys" of the British invasion. Name them AND one of their hits.
Who are the Rolling Stones: Satisfaction, Gimme Shelter, Get off of my cloud
500
Gene Autry and Roy Rogers sang this style of music associated with cowboys
What is Western?
500
This group, a Motown staple, featured Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Diana Ross.
Who are the Supremes?
500
The singer of this song died in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1959. Who was it? Name the song.
Who is Buddy Holly and what is Peggy Sue?
500
This event in the 1960's (and 1970's) sparked Protest music like "Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan
What is the Vietnam War?
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