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A #music history #rock quiz focusing on Motown and acid/psychedelia rock music
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Where did the first psychedelic bands come from?
New York City
England
Detroit
San Francisco
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Smart American entrepreneur who created Motown; crossed musical color lines
Brian Holland
Berry Gordy
Smokey Robinson
Marvin Gaye
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Gordy ordered a "poppier" version of this song to be recorded; became a #1 R&B hit, #2 pop hit
"Shop Around"
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
"My Girl"
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"Motor town" where Motown record company was founded by Berry Gordy in 1959
Nashville
Memphis
Detroit
New York City
5
1960s counterculture largely influenced by this group of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs & Cassady
The Doors
The Velvet Underground
The hippies
The Beat writers
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Lead singer of Jefferson Airplane; had a blues and gospel influenced style
Jerry Garcia
Lou Reed
Grace Slick
Jim Morrison
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"How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" sung by Marvin Gaye
Was written by Holland-Dozier-Holland
Was less blues oriented
Showed a more sophisticated style
All of the answers are correct!
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Rock and blues singer; sense of almost giving up vocal control; sang "Piece of My Heart"
Grace Slick
Janis Joplin
Diana Ross
John Cale
9
"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" by the Doors contains
Bossa Nova Brazilian drum groove
Slow, plodding, emphatic beat
Weird percussion effects
Strange tuning & pitch drones
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"Signed, Sealed, Delivered," a hit on the US R&B and pop charts, was written by who?
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder himself
Whitfield-Strong
Holland-Dozier-Holland
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Song by Jefferson Airplane about loyalty and monoagamy
"The Golden Road"
"Somebody to Love"
"Light My Fire"
"Venus in Furs"
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"Venus in Furs" sung by The Velvet Underground could be described as
Having a gospel influenced vocal style
Having a fast, upbeat tempo
Exploring pitch drones & strange tunings
Being lighthearted & "sunny"
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What songwriting group wrote the famous Motown hit 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine"?
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Ashford and Simpson
Whitfield-Strong
Robinson-White
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First signed to Motown as a prodigy; experimented w/synthesizer; themes about racial problems
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Eddie Kendricks
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He was a 1960s cartoonist who created Mr. Natural, a hippie icon
Jack Kerouac
Robert Crumb
Jerry Garcia
Allen Ginsberg
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Band who showed darker side of psychedelic rock; poetics of existential angst; sex &death focus
The Velvet Underground
Jefferson Airplane
The Grateful Dead
The Doors
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Had political unrest (Civil rights, war, assassinations), sexual liberation, hippies & drug use
1960s subculture
1960s main culture
1960s counterculture
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Who ran the Motown "finishing school" where artists were taught class, poise and etiquette?
Berry Gordy
Valerie Simpson
Maxine Powell
Brian Holland
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"My Girl" by the Temptations was a ballad that emphasized the lead singer & another key part is
Instrumental solos
Vibrant rhythm section
"sophisticated" style
Choreography
20
"Heat Wave" was a hit Motown song written by who?
Ashford-Simpson
Smokey Robinson
Whitfield-Strong
Holland-Dozier-Holland
21
Motown's best selling male vocalist; his music shows the development of black American music
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Smokey Robinson
Berry Gordy
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3 day musical commune; symbolized what was right and good" about the hippie movement
Black Panthers
Woodstock
Haight-Ashbury
Newport
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"You Can't Hurry Love" sung by The Supremes shows the sweet soul idiom & the delicate voice of
Maxine Powell
Diana Ross
Gladys Knight
Martha Reeve
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Songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote hits for this group; showed sweet soul idiom
The Temptations
The Miracles
The Supremes
The Marvelettes
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American record company; specialized in R&B, black soul music; associated combo of music styles
Chess
Motown
Acid rock
Sun
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"The Golden Road" by the Grateful Dead is an example of what musical style
Folk-rock
Motown
Rockabilly
Psychedelic rock
27
What were aspects of psychedelic (acid) rock
Loud volumes
All of the above
Surrealist lyrics
Lavish light shows
28
1st nationally successful band from San Francisco psychedelic scene; defined acid rock style
Jefferson Airplane
The Velvet Underground
The Grateful Dead
The Doors
29
The Motown record company was originally called
Chess records
Tamla records
RCA
Sun records
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NY band who presented darker side to 60s hedonism; songs on drugs, sublimation & sadomasochism
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
The Velvet Underground
The Grateful Dead
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Acid rock group that started at the famous acid tests; exemplified the communal idea
The Velvet Underground
The Grateful Dead
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
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Used a business/production model of a musical "assembly line" for Motown records
Brian Holland
Phil Spector
Lamont Dozier
Berry Gordy
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This song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles became Motown's 1st million selling record
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
"Shop Around"
"My Girl"
"You Can't Hurry Love"
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Motown records was modeled on whose "wall of sound"?
Phil Spector
Sam Phillips
Berry Gordy
George Martin
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Berry Gordy began as a
Singer
Songwriter
Producer
36
A publication from that Beat era by Allen Ginsberg; "Beat Manifesto"; poetry; obscene elements
Revolver
Surrealist Pillow
The Psychedelic Experience
Howl
37
The people most visibly and drastically rejecting the bourgeois lifestyle promoted in the 1950s
The Beats
Antiwar protesters
Civil Rights activists
The Hippies
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Style that emerged w/brilliant colors, hallucinogenic images; came from hippies, linked w/LSD
Motown
Psychedelic Rock
Folk-rock
Rockabilly
