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11/16/2024 10:16 AM
MBU 2130 Exam 2 Questions With Correct
Answers
"Bobby Sox" idol of the 1940s - answer✔Frank Sinatra
"Chattanoogie Shoeshine Boy" - answer✔Performed by Red Foley
Written by Owen Bradley
Father of Black Gospel - answer✔Thomas Dorsey
Father of Rhythm and Blues - answer✔Louis Jordan
Great Migration - answer✔Blacks moved from the south to the north (mostly Chicago) to find
manufacturing jobs; brought music with them
King of Discount Selling - answer✔Sam Goody
Oklahoma - answer✔First musical where songs drove the plot
First successful Broadway cast recording
Tennessee Waltz - answer✔Published by Acuff-Rose
Sung by Patti Page
Put Nashville on the map for songwriters
Voice of the 1930s - answer✔Bing Crosby
"Your Cheatin' Heart" - answer✔Hank Williams
1948 - answer✔Americans worried about invasion and communists
Transistor radio was developed by William Shockley; radios biggest year; first full run of TV program
A&R person for race and hillbilly for Columbia - answer✔Art Satherly
Aberbach brothers - answer✔Founded Hill and Range records
Acuff-Rose - answer✔Founded by Fred Rose and Roy Acuff
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Advertising Agencies - answer✔Controlled radio content: Wrote shows, arranged for sponsors, and
delivered them to stations (comedy, drama, and music programs)
Alan Freed - answer✔"Father of Rock n' Roll"
Disk jockey from Cleveland, Ohio
Won right to play African-American R&B on the radio
American recorded music became international - answer✔During WWII, Americans at home and
soldiers overseas listened to the same music
Ampex - answer✔American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff; recording
machine manufacturer
Art Slathery - answer✔A&R person for race and hillbilly music at Columbia
ASCAP - answer✔Battled radio networks and wanted more money for radio play; controlled by
publishers; american society of composers, authors, and publishers
Atlantic Records - answer✔Founded by Ahmet Ertgun and Herb Abramson in 1947 in New York
Band leader died during WWII - answer✔Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman - answer✔"King of Swing"
Bing Crosby - answer✔First to use tape
Signed by Jack Kapp at Decca
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" and "White Christmas"
Blacklisted performers and writers - answer✔Due to the anti-communist scare some artists with liberal
or socialist views were blacklisted from the music industry (1947)
BMI - answer✔First PRO with "open door" policy; Created to be a competitor to ASCAP; Broadcast
Music, Inc.
Bob Willis - answer✔King of western swing
Brand name of jukeboxes - answer✔Rock-Ola and Wurlitzer
Brown v. Board of Education - answer✔Decision that says segregation is a violation of the 14th
amendment
Capitol Records - answer✔Liberty Records
Founded by Glenn Wallichs, Johnny Mercer, and Georgy Desylva
They sent free records to radio stations
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11/16/2024 10:16 AM
MBU 2130 Exam 2 Questions With Correct
Answers
"Bobby Sox" idol of the 1940s - answer✔Frank Sinatra
"Chattanoogie Shoeshine Boy" - answer✔Performed by Red Foley
Written by Owen Bradley
Father of Black Gospel - answer✔Thomas Dorsey
Father of Rhythm and Blues - answer✔Louis Jordan
Great Migration - answer✔Blacks moved from the south to the north (mostly Chicago) to find
manufacturing jobs; brought music with them
King of Discount Selling - answer✔Sam Goody
Oklahoma - answer✔First musical where songs drove the plot
First successful Broadway cast recording
Tennessee Waltz - answer✔Published by Acuff-Rose
Sung by Patti Page
Put Nashville on the map for songwriters
Voice of the 1930s - answer✔Bing Crosby
"Your Cheatin' Heart" - answer✔Hank Williams
1948 - answer✔Americans worried about invasion and communists
Transistor radio was developed by William Shockley; radios biggest year; first full run of TV program
A&R person for race and hillbilly for Columbia - answer✔Art Satherly
Aberbach brothers - answer✔Founded Hill and Range records
Acuff-Rose - answer✔Founded by Fred Rose and Roy Acuff
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, ©BRIGHTSTARS EXAM SOLUTIONS
11/16/2024 10:16 AM
Advertising Agencies - answer✔Controlled radio content: Wrote shows, arranged for sponsors, and
delivered them to stations (comedy, drama, and music programs)
Alan Freed - answer✔"Father of Rock n' Roll"
Disk jockey from Cleveland, Ohio
Won right to play African-American R&B on the radio
American recorded music became international - answer✔During WWII, Americans at home and
soldiers overseas listened to the same music
Ampex - answer✔American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff; recording
machine manufacturer
Art Slathery - answer✔A&R person for race and hillbilly music at Columbia
ASCAP - answer✔Battled radio networks and wanted more money for radio play; controlled by
publishers; american society of composers, authors, and publishers
Atlantic Records - answer✔Founded by Ahmet Ertgun and Herb Abramson in 1947 in New York
Band leader died during WWII - answer✔Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman - answer✔"King of Swing"
Bing Crosby - answer✔First to use tape
Signed by Jack Kapp at Decca
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" and "White Christmas"
Blacklisted performers and writers - answer✔Due to the anti-communist scare some artists with liberal
or socialist views were blacklisted from the music industry (1947)
BMI - answer✔First PRO with "open door" policy; Created to be a competitor to ASCAP; Broadcast
Music, Inc.
Bob Willis - answer✔King of western swing
Brand name of jukeboxes - answer✔Rock-Ola and Wurlitzer
Brown v. Board of Education - answer✔Decision that says segregation is a violation of the 14th
amendment
Capitol Records - answer✔Liberty Records
Founded by Glenn Wallichs, Johnny Mercer, and Georgy Desylva
They sent free records to radio stations
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