| Teen Idols and Girl Groups (1958-1964) |
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| The day the music died (1957-1960) |
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1958: Elvis enlists in army
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1958: Jerry Lee Lewis marries thirteen year old cousin
1957: Little Richard finds religion
Feb. 3 1959: Buddy Holiday, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper killed in plane crash
1960: Fat Domino goes commercial
1960: Chuck Berry arrested arrested and jailed for transporting 14 year old girls across state lines
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-Songs aimed at teen audiences
-“Manufactured Stars”
-Heavily influenced by Doo-wop (More watered down)
-Lush productions, high quality recording
-Appearance is most important
-Often Italian American
-Rarely played an instrument
-Generally did not write their own songs
-Frankie Avalon “Venus”
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Paul Anka (Canadian)
-Prolific songwriter
-“Put your head on my shoulders” (1959)
Neil Sedaka
-“Calendar Girl” (1959)
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“Devil or Angel” (1956)
The Clovers
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-Male Quartet
-Sax Solo
-Doo-Wop Feel
Covered by Bobby Vee (1960)
-Strings
-Guitar instead of sax
-Chorus
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-Leader: Dion DiMucci
-“Teenager in love”
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| Phil Spector, Girl Groups, and the “Wall of sound” |
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-Arranger, songwriter and producer
-Protege of Lieber and Stoller (Houndog Writers)
-Produced girl groups- Produced Shirelles, the Crystals and Ronettes
Wall of Sound: Able to take a small group and make them sound big.
-First Group, The Teddy Bears
“To Know him is to love him”
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“Hes so fine” (1963)
Copyright Infringment
-George Harrison Pays $500,000.00
“My Sweet Lord” (1970)
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“Leader of the pack” (1964) Parody of teenage love
-Remember (Walking in the sand) (1964)
-Dark quality than most pop of time
-Cover by aerosmith
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Hit song: “Da doo ron ron (1963)
“Please Hurt Me”
“Hit me (It felt like a kiss) (1962)
-Provacative
-Banned by radio stations
-Both written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King
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-Double Picking Solos and heavy Reverd in the guitar
-Drums heavily influenced
-Lush Harmonies
-Made by and for white middle class teen
-Created a California Lifestyle Myth
-The Chantays- “Underwater” and “Pipeline”
Dick Dale
-Original Surfer dude
The Surafaris “Wipeout”
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-Combined surf music and rich vocal harmonies
-Evolved beyond teen bop
-Troubled but creative Brian Wilson
-Beatles compeition
-“Graduation Day” The Four Freshman
-Beach Boys remix of “Graduation Day”
-Johnny B. Goode- “Berry”
-“Fun, Fun, Fun”- Beach Boys
-“Surfer Girl”
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-“Good Vibrations” (1966)
-“Wouldnt it be nice” Pet Sounds
-“Caroline No” Pet Sounds
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