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Friendly Warning : Test # 2 next Week (Wednesday or Thursday) 18-19 July 2012

Friendly Warning : Test # 2 next Week (Wednesday or Thursday) 18-19 July 2012. Covers “1950s”: Chapters 2 & 3. 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”).

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Friendly Warning : Test # 2 next Week (Wednesday or Thursday) 18-19 July 2012

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  1. Friendly Warning :Test # 2 next Week(Wednesday or Thursday) 18-19 July 2012 Covers “1950s”:Chapters 2 & 3

  2. 3 February 1959 5 miles NW of Mason City, IA Airport

  3. “The Day the Music Died” Ritchie Valens (“Donna” / “La Bamba”) J.P. Richardson, aka “The Big Bopper”(“Chantilly Lace”) Buddy Holly

  4. 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)

  5. Payola Alan Freed • 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 Dick Clark

  6. Chapter 3 Overview 1959 – 1963 : “End” of Rock ‘n Roll until the “British Invasion” (Beatles, etc.) Return to old-fashioned marketing (Tin Pan Alley)- market segmentation into teenyboppers and older “Brill Building” - Aldon Music- Sedaka, King, Weil & Mann, Barry & Greenwich, etc.- Manufactured “talent” (Avalon, Fabian, etc.)- Rise of the Producer (Phil Spector, etc.) “Soul” Music – R & B goes mainstream Rockabilly goes Pop Surf Music from California Folk Music influences – politics & social issues

  7. Teen Idols “Fabian”(Forte) • “Manufactured” talent controlled by Labels • Clean-cut image • Bubblegum market : younger kids(rock ‘n roller growing up) • Fabian- YouTube - Fabian sings All of me- fabian turn me loose – YouTube • Frankie Avalon- “Venus” : Frankie Avalon - Venus – YouTube- “De De Dinah” : American Bandstand De De Dinah Frankie Avalon - YouTube Frankie Avalon

  8. The Twist • Hank Ballard and the Midnighters (1957)- Ex. Hank Ballard And The Midnighters - The Twist (Original version, 1959) - YouTube • 1960: Dick Clark- produces cover w/ Chubby Checker - promoted on American Bandstand- Ex. Chubby Checker - The Twist (1960) – YouTube or Chubby Checker - The Twist – YouTube (on AB) • The Peppermint Lounge (NYC)- Joey Dee – “The Peppermint Twist”- Ex. Peppermint Twist - Joey Dee & The Starliters – YouTube • Spin-offs (a few):- Chubby Checker – “Let’s Twist Again”- The Beatles – “Twist and Shout”- Sam Cooke – “Twisting the Night Away”

  9. Brill Building 1619 Broadway • North end of Times Square • Aldon Music locates here • “Vertical integration” of- songwriting- demos- publishing- recording & distribution • Producers in charge • Songwriting to order • Girl Groups

  10. Brill Building Sound (early ‘60s) • King & Goffin : YouTube - THE SHIRELLES-WILL U STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW (1960) • King & Goffin : YouTube - Little Eva The Locomotion (1962) • Sedaka & Howie Greenfield: Stupid Cupid Connie Francis - YouTube • Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry : The Ronettes - YouTube • Ronald Mack (manager, not a songwriter) :THE CHIFFONS (HIGH QUALITY) - HE'S SO FINE *Different version* - YouTube (1963, pop #1) (rejected by Capitol records as “too trite…too simple”) Carole King (b. 1942) & Gerry Goffin (b. 1939) Neil Sedaka (b. 1939) Howie Greenfield (1936-86)

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