MBU 2130 Exam 3 With
Complete Solution
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink...we're more popular than Jesus
now.
I don't know which will go first--rock and roll or Christianity." - ANSWER
John Lennon
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" - ANSWER The Beatles
First number one
1963
King of Rock n' Roll - ANSWER Elvis
"Leer-ics" and "dirty and as bad for kids as dope" - ANSWER Rhythm and
Blues
"Tom Dooley" - ANSWER Kingston Trio
Beginning of folk movement
1958 - No. 1 on Billboard pop chart for 21 weeks
"We Shall Overcome" - ANSWER Best known song for civil rights movement
Pete Seeger
1967 - ANSWER Summer of Love
Monterey Pop Festival
,Newport Folk Festival
The music industry broke the million dollar mark
1977 - ANSWER Death of Elvis and Bing Crosby
ABC TV network - ANSWER Gave $6 million to Disney for weekly TV show
Alan Freed - ANSWER Payola led to his downfall
American Bandstand - ANSWER Dick Clark
American physicist developed noise reduction unit - ANSWER Ray Dolby
Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice - ANSWER Wrote Jesus Christ Superstar
and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream
Artist on "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" - ANSWER The Righteous
Brothers
Artist recorded "Rock Around the Clock" - ANSWER Bill Haley and the
Comets
ASCAP - ANSWER Investigated payola scandals
Atlantic Records - ANSWER Independent label founded by Ahmet Ertegan
and Herb Abransom
Austin, TX - ANSWER Center for alternative country music
Bakersfield, CA - ANSWER Home of the "Bakersfield Sound"
Beach Boys - ANSWER Founded in California in 1961
"Surfin' Safari"
Beatlemania - ANSWER Intense frenzy in the 1960s towards the Beatles
, Beatles - ANSWER Rock group from Liverpool
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Star
Beatles first movie - ANSWER A Hard Day's Night
Beatles first single hit in America - ANSWER I Want to Hold Your Hand
Beatles producer - ANSWER George Martin
Began FM "underground radio" - ANSWER "Big Daddy" Tom Donahue
Benefit concert organized by George Harrison - ANSWER concert for
Bangladesh
Berry Gordy, Jr. - ANSWER Founder of Motown Records
Big band performer with TV show in 1960s - ANSWER Lawrence Welk
Bill Graham - ANSWER Father of the Modern Music Industry
Manager for the Grateful Dead and Santana
Bill Haley - ANSWER Claimed to invent rock n' roll
Combined western swing and R&B and became Godfather of rock n' roll
"Rock Around the Clock"
Bing Crosby - ANSWER Singer and actor
"White Christmas"
Blackboard Jungle - ANSWER 1955 movie catapulted "Rock Around the
Clock" to #1 on the pop charts
BMI - ANSWER Licensed most songs for rock n' roll
Complete Solution
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink...we're more popular than Jesus
now.
I don't know which will go first--rock and roll or Christianity." - ANSWER
John Lennon
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" - ANSWER The Beatles
First number one
1963
King of Rock n' Roll - ANSWER Elvis
"Leer-ics" and "dirty and as bad for kids as dope" - ANSWER Rhythm and
Blues
"Tom Dooley" - ANSWER Kingston Trio
Beginning of folk movement
1958 - No. 1 on Billboard pop chart for 21 weeks
"We Shall Overcome" - ANSWER Best known song for civil rights movement
Pete Seeger
1967 - ANSWER Summer of Love
Monterey Pop Festival
,Newport Folk Festival
The music industry broke the million dollar mark
1977 - ANSWER Death of Elvis and Bing Crosby
ABC TV network - ANSWER Gave $6 million to Disney for weekly TV show
Alan Freed - ANSWER Payola led to his downfall
American Bandstand - ANSWER Dick Clark
American physicist developed noise reduction unit - ANSWER Ray Dolby
Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice - ANSWER Wrote Jesus Christ Superstar
and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream
Artist on "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" - ANSWER The Righteous
Brothers
Artist recorded "Rock Around the Clock" - ANSWER Bill Haley and the
Comets
ASCAP - ANSWER Investigated payola scandals
Atlantic Records - ANSWER Independent label founded by Ahmet Ertegan
and Herb Abransom
Austin, TX - ANSWER Center for alternative country music
Bakersfield, CA - ANSWER Home of the "Bakersfield Sound"
Beach Boys - ANSWER Founded in California in 1961
"Surfin' Safari"
Beatlemania - ANSWER Intense frenzy in the 1960s towards the Beatles
, Beatles - ANSWER Rock group from Liverpool
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Star
Beatles first movie - ANSWER A Hard Day's Night
Beatles first single hit in America - ANSWER I Want to Hold Your Hand
Beatles producer - ANSWER George Martin
Began FM "underground radio" - ANSWER "Big Daddy" Tom Donahue
Benefit concert organized by George Harrison - ANSWER concert for
Bangladesh
Berry Gordy, Jr. - ANSWER Founder of Motown Records
Big band performer with TV show in 1960s - ANSWER Lawrence Welk
Bill Graham - ANSWER Father of the Modern Music Industry
Manager for the Grateful Dead and Santana
Bill Haley - ANSWER Claimed to invent rock n' roll
Combined western swing and R&B and became Godfather of rock n' roll
"Rock Around the Clock"
Bing Crosby - ANSWER Singer and actor
"White Christmas"
Blackboard Jungle - ANSWER 1955 movie catapulted "Rock Around the
Clock" to #1 on the pop charts
BMI - ANSWER Licensed most songs for rock n' roll
