History of Rock n' Roll - Chapter 2

Sam Phillips sold Elvis’s contract to which record company?

What was the prominent market for popular music before rock and roll emerged in 1955?

What happened on February 3, 1959, known as “The Day the Music Died”?

The lyrics in “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” contains double entendres throughout the song and is a type of blues called

Which instrument is absent in this excerpt from Elvis Presley's "That's All Right (Mama)"? I'll play the excerpt.

Elvis is best thought of as a master songwriter who wrote in a variety of pop genres

Which singer performed a cover of Fats Domino’s “Ain’t It a Shame,” retitled “Ain’t That a Shame,”

1. Chuck Berry’s vocal style in “Johnny B. Goode” is heavily influenced by which genre?

Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry wrote music intended for a pop audience with influences of country, western, rhythm and blue

Which artist first recorded “Johnny B. Goode”?

The song that launched the career of Elvis Presley, “That’s All Right (Mama),” was written by whom?

Which of these was true of Elvis Presley by the early 1960s?

3Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard were all artists recorded on independent labels.

Which of the following singers was marketed as the “female Elvis”?

1. Elvis is often thought of as a song stylist because he

1. The first rock-and-roll artist to cultivate the “wild man” persona was

In 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis’s career stalled due to a scandal surrounding what?

Listen to “Heartbreak Hotel” and “That’s All Right (Mama),” what is a major difference in the instrumentation you hear?

1. What is the best way to describe the singing style of Little Richard in this excerpt from “Tutti Frutti”?

Which instrument is soloing in this excerpt from Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti”? I will play the excerpt

Who was the first rock and roll artist to cultivate the “wild man” persona?

Early in his career, Elvis was marketed as a

Before Elvis signed a major record deal, major labels were NOT interested in rock and roll.

Elvis’s first single for RCA was

All of the following are elements of Chuck Berry’s music EXCEPT

Until 1955, the music business was segregated into pop, rhythm and blues, and country and western.

The turning point in Elvis Presley’s career likely occurred during his performance on which program?

Why did Sam Phillips sell Elvis Presley’s contract to RCA?

Which of the following artists recorded for Sun Records?

The “whitening” of rhythm and blues was marked by

Which artist cowrote and first recorded “Tutti Frutti”?

Who started Sun Records in Memphis?

All of the following are examples of crossover artists EXCEPT

Which of these was true of Elvis Presley by the early 1960s?

Which artist had a band called the Crickets?

1. All of the following events affected the first wave of rock and roll EXCEPT