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Friendly Warning # 1: Multi-Chapter Test (# 4). Covers most of Chapters 8 & 9 (and maybe a small part of 10?) (see Review Sheets for specifics) Tuesday, 26 April 2016. Friendly Warning # 2. Final Exam Thursday, 28 April 2016 10:00 am – 12:50 pm Comprehensive
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Friendly Warning # 1:Multi-Chapter Test (# 4) Covers most of Chapters 8 & 9(and maybe a small part of 10?)(see Review Sheets for specifics)Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Friendly Warning # 2 Final Exam Thursday, 28 April 201610:00 am – 12:50 pmComprehensive “Study Session” for reviewing your own tests TBA (27 Apr ‘16?)
Chapter 8 “Rock Around the Clock” :Rock ‘n Roll, 1954-59
Chapter 8 (outline) [Introduction] Cover Versions and Early Rock 'n' Roll The Rock 'n' Roll Business Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the R&B Side Early Rock 'n' Roll Stars on the Country Side Wild, Wild Young Women: The Lady Vanishes The Latin Side of Rock 'n' Roll [no later sections of Chapter 8 will be covered]
Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977) b. Tupelo, MS (poor white rural) Wide range of musical influences 1948 – to Memphis 1953 – 1st time at Sun Studios 1954 – demos for Phillips(“That’s All Right Mama” / “Blue Moon of Kentucky”) Public performances 1955 - Col. Tom Parker, manager Contract sold to RCA TV – 1956 1958-60 – into Army
Louisiana Hayride Elvis Presley. I Got A Woman.Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956.Remastered.2011 . – YouTube Elvis Presley. Tweedle Dee.Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956.Remastered.2011 . – YouTube Elvis Presley. Maybellene . ( Tunzi Remix ).Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956.Remastered.2011 . - YouTube
Elvis on Television Jan-Feb ’56: Stage Show (CBS)- Variety show hosted by Dorsey Brothers- No special interest or reaction Milton Berle Show (1948-56) (“Mr. Television”) - 3 Apr ’56 (on Battleship USS Hancock)- 5 June ’56 : Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) HD 0815007 “Elvis the pelvis” – panned by critics as obscene
Elvis on Television (part 2) The Steve Allen Show - Sunday night variety (competitor to Ed Sullivan) - 1 July ’56 : “Hound Dog” : ELVIS PRESLEY on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW 1956 "Hound Dog" Ed Sullivan Show - The Leading TV Variety Show - 9 Sept ’56 : "ELVIS DEBUTS ON TELEVISION" - (September 9, 1956) - 28 Oct ’56 : ELVIS PRESLEY "Hound Dog" on The Ed Sullivan Show - YouTube - 6 Jan ’57 : ELVIS PRESLEY "Don't Be Cruel" on The Ed Sullivan Show – YouTube(text book LG, p. 264-6)
Elvis Presley – Singer/Personality No Original Material Eclectic vocal style Stage presence & overt sexuality – “Elvis the Pelvis” Universal appeal (all charts) Examples- (1st rec. 1954) : Elvis Presley- That's Alright Mama / With Lyrics [cf. Crudup 1946 original : Arthur Crudup - That's All Right (original version) – YouTube]- (1957) YouTube - Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)- (1957 movie) YouTube - Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (End Scene)[1938 movie: Frances Farmer - "Aura Lee" ]- (RCA rec.) Love Me Tender Elvis Presley original 1956 – YouTube- Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel (Textbook, p. 264-66)
Carl Perkins(1932-1998) born to Tennessee sharecropper Gospel & black music “Rockabilly”(CP is “The King of ….”) Examples- Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes - Perry Como Show -1956 (Country # 1, Pop # 2)- 1956 Carl Perkins - Honey, Don’t! (B-side: “Blue Suede Shoes”)- Carl Perkins - Matchbox - 1984 - YouTube
Jerry Lee Lewis,“The Killer” b. Louisiana, 1935- poor family (religious)- cousins (J. Gilley & Jimmy Swaggert) Boogie woogie piano style “The Killer” “Wild man of Rock ‘n Roll” Examples- Jerry Lee Lewis Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On 1957 BETTER QUALITY(Pop # 3, # 1 on Country AND R&B!)- Great Balls of Fire-Jerry Lee Lewis-original song-1957 – YouTube(Pop # 2, # 1 on Country AND R&B!)- jerry lee lewis - good golly miss molly.wmv – YouTube- Jerry Lee Lewis -Whole Lotta Shakin Going On (Live 1964) - YouTube
Buddy Holly(1936-1959) b. Lubbock, TX Influenced by Elvis, etc. C&W meets R&B for Pop audiences Examples- Buddy Holly -THAT'LL BE THE DAY - Original song – YouTube (Pop # 1, R&B # 2) - YouTube - Buddy Holly on the Arthur Murray Dance Party 12/29/57 (Peggy Sue)(# 3 on both Pop and R&B )
Ritchie Valens (1941-59) Mexican-American “Chicano Rock” “La Bamba”- Mexican folk song- US Pop chart # 22 (1958) Ex. “La Bamba”“Son Jarocho” style (Veracruz, Mexico)- TLEN HUICANI - La Bamba (Son Jarocho) www.musicajarocha.com – YouTube- la bamba son jarocho – YouTube- The Real Ritchie Valens - La Bamba – YouTube (text book LG, p. 273-5)
Wanda Jackson (b. 1937) b. Oklahoma Country music with…? “Queen of Rockabilly” Non-threatening women Exs.- WANDA JACKSON. I GOTTA KNOW.. – YouTube(1956 Country # 15)- WANDA JACKSON "Rock Your Baby" - WANDA JACKSON Mean, Mean Man (1958) – YouTube- RIGHT OR WRONG by WANDA JACKSON (1961 Country # 9,Pop # 29) – “Country Comeback”
3 February 1959 5 miles NW of Mason City, IA Airport
“The Day the Music Died” Ritchie Valens (“Donna” / “La Bamba”) J.P. Richardson, aka “The Big Bopper”(“Chantilly Lace”) Buddy Holly
Payola DJs as entry points to market 200+ records a week! Money, gifts, etc. (legal) ASCAP (tin pan alley) vs. BMI (pop, etc.) US Congress investigates New FCC rules Alan Freed & others fired Dick Clark (American Bandstand) escapes Alan Freed Dick Clark
End of the “Rock ‘n Roll” era Legal Troubles and Prison (1959-63) Into theUS Army(1958-1960) Gets Religion (1957-63) “Reverend Penniman” (1958): his2nd Marriage to his 1st cousin (once removed)
Chapter 9 “Good Vibrations” :American Pop and the British Invasion, the 1960s
“If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there.” - Paul Kantner, guitarist of the Jefferson Airplane
Martin Luther King Washington, DC, 28 August 1963 Memphis, 4 April 1968
Vietnam & Kent State 1965-1975 4 May 1970
Woodstock 1969