1940s
Musical Instruments
1950s
Name that Tune
Country Music
100

This popular Glen Miller song spent 12 weeks at number one.

100

This instrument has 88 keys and was the most popular instrument of the Ragtime era.

What is a piano.

100

This singer is known best for his song "Nothin' but a Hound Dog."

100

What song had Johnny Cash and June Carter getting "married in a fever"?

Ring of Fire or Jackson ?

200

In 1942, the number one song was "White Christmas" sung by which artist?

Who is Bing Crosby

200

Mariachi bands often use different sizes of this instrument.

What is the guitar.

200

The 1950s saw the emergence of this type of music.

What is Rock n' Roll.

200

According to a popular country song, "what" in the band?

300

Who sang the 1945 hit, "Rum & Coca Cola?"

300

Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespi, and Wynton Marsalis are known for playing what instrument?

What is the trumpet.

300

This singer from the 1950s died tragically in a plane crash.

A. Buddy Holly

B. Pat Boone

C. Elvis Presley

300

What is "Georgia on my Mind."

300

This famous county artist has the most number one country hits of all time.

A. Dolly Parten

B. George Strait

C. Hank Williams


400


"You're Easy to Dance With" was sung and danced to by Fred Astaire, but in which Paramount Film?

400

This instrument is played by blowing into holes on its side.

What is the harmonica.

400

In 1955, Bill Haley and His Comets had their only #1 hit on the Billboard Top 40 Pop Singles. What was it?

A. Clock Turn around

B. Rock Around the Clock

C. Shake Rattle and Roll

What is "Rock Around the Clock"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw


400

What is "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."

400

These two people are known as the King of Outlaw Country Music.

A. Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson

B. Waylon Jennings & Garth Brooks 






A. Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOWjX4BpC24


500

This singer had several big hits as the singer for Les Brown's Band of Reknown. She departed the group in the late 40's and went on to an enormous movie career and still dabbled in music as a solo career

500

What instrument is mainly used for jazz and rarely used in symphonic music?

What is the Saxophone

500

Released in 1957, who sang "Love Letters in the Sand"?

A. Buddy Holly

B. Richie Valanes

C. Pat Boone

500

This American Country Music stage was founded on November 28, 1925.