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Rhythm & Blues
Country Western
Urban Folk
Crooners
Miscellaneous
100
She was called "Miss Rhythm"
Who is Ruth Brown?
100
One of the first female superstars of country music, this artist's number one hit of love and betrayel was entitled, "Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On?" (Artist)
Who is Kitty Wells?
100
This group was the first urban folk group to achieve worldwide success.
Who were the Weavers?
100
The title is based on a piece he wrote for his daughter. (name the title and artist)
What is "Nancy With the Laughing Face" by Frank Sinatra?
100
The radio increased the influence of this specific profession in popular music during the late 1940s.
What is a disc jockey?
200
This Doowop style R&B group recorded two twelve-bar blues based songs which became popular for their risque words, hard R&B dance beat style, and their popular black gospel singing style. (group, two titles)
Who are the Dominoes? What is Sixty-Minute Man and Have Mercy Baby?
200
This honky-tonk artist was a longtime follower of Jimmie Rodgers (The Singing Brakeman). His number one hit was first released by Decca Records in the early 40s. (artist and Song Title)
What is "Walking the Floor Over You" by Ernest Tubb?
200
He was the founder of the Weavers groups
Who was Gordon Jenkins?
200
This Texas-born blues crooner was the most successful of the late 1940s era. He released a song called "Drifting Blues" which was one of the top sellers on the R&B charts in 1945.
Who is Charles Brown? (no relation to the cartoon)
200
Chess Records and Atlantic Records
What were the two most important independent (indie) record labels discussed in the chapter?
300
This hit tune about the power of women as an image in popular music was made popular by the artist that began her career as a comic, professional singer, drummer and harmonica player. (artist and title)
What is Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton?
300
This country artist and piece featured the classic bluegrass band: fiddle, guitar, mandolin and banjo. It also discussed traditional subjects like the Appalachian mountains and derived its influence from African American styles of music. (Title, artist and band)
What is "It's Mighty Dark to Travel" by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys?
300
This folk ballad title exemplified the folk tradition style but was also considered a pop record for its popularity on the pop charts in 1950.
What is "Goodnight Irene?"
300
He was the first African American to crossover onto the white charts with mainly sentimental ballad hits such as "Mona Lisa" and "Nature Boy."
Who is Nat "King" Cole?
300
The terms "race music" and "hillbilly music" were later changed and finalized to these two categories.
What were "rhythm and blues" and "country western" music?
400
This particular band set up became the usual style of what we know today as a "jump band." (Instruments of the jump band and name of artist)
What is two trumpet, two saxophones, bass, piano and drums? Who is Louis Jordan?
400
These were three specific types of country western style singers. ( Name the three types of singing style)
What is country crooners; honky-tonk musicians; and bluegrass musicians?
400
These were three specific folk artists or groups mentioned that the Weavers influenced later on.
Who were the Kingston Trio, Peter,Paul and Mary, and Bob Dylan?
400
This classic R&B crooner created a style of melismatic singing in which he sighed and sobbed and stretched syllables of a song over as many notes as possible. His number one hit was the first to make him the only white artist to reach the top of the black charts in the late 40s. (Name the artist and his number one hit)
What is "Cry" by Johnny Ray?
400
This female artist was known for selling more records than any other female artist in the 50s and had two popular hit titles that were mentioned in the listening.
Who is Patti Page? What is "Doggie in the Window?" What is "Tennessee Waltz?"
500
These two specific titles were similar in style not only for the similar genre style but in also the incorporated singing style of little upward squeals at the ends of words. (Name the two titles and two artists the sang them)
What is Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean by Ruth Brown? What is Caldonia by Louis Jordan?
500
The first piece mentioned by this country artist is in a triple waltz feel and contains vocal interest which help to bring the words to life. The second title piece mentioned by the same artist was a minor crossover hit that gained popularity with teenagers. (Artist, Title 1 and Title 2)
Who is Hank Williams? What is I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry? What is Hey, Good Lookin'?
500
The number of people that make up The Weavers. The specific person and his instrumental and social background that led the group. The year the group was formed, its previous name, and the two popular folk artists previously in it.
What is a quartet led by singer, banjo player, and political activist Pete Seeger What is a group formed in 1948, from an earlier group called the Almanac Singers, which had included both Seeger and Guthrie.
500
This sentimental ballad was the number one hit of this country crooner who began his career as a local country singer on the radio in Tennessee and later joined the Grand Ole Opry.
What is "Bouquet of Roses?"
500
This piece featured a combination of strophic blues form with the typical style of Chicago electric and urben blues style. The artist of the piece was known to have been the greatest influence of the Mississippi Delta style blues. (artist and piece)
Who is Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)? What is "Hoochie Coochie Man?"