Elvis Presley
Style: Rock and Roll
Songs:
“Thats All Right Mama”
and “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
Style: Blue Bird Beat
Signature Song: “That’s All Right (Mama)”
Lionel Hampton
Style: R&B Big Band
Signature Song: “Flying Home”
Professor Longhair
Style: New Orleans
Signature Song: “Tipitina” or “Mardi Gras in New Orleans”
Louis Jordan
Style: Jump and Jive Signature Song: “Caldonia” or “Five Guys Named Moe”
Big Jay McNeely
Style: Honker
Sig Song: “Deacon’s Hop”
Bill Haley
Style: Rock & Roll
Song: “Rock ARound the Clock”
Moon Dog
Style: Rock and Roll
Nat King Cole
Style: Club Combo
Song: “Route 66”
Charles Brown
Style: Club Combo
Song: “Driftin Blues”
T-Bone Walker
Style: Electric Guitar Blues
Song: “Stormy Monday”
Ink Spots
Style: Doo Wop
Song: “If I Didn’t Care”
The Ravens
Style: Doo Wop
Song: “Ol Man River”
Roy Acuff
Style: Mountaineer
Song: “The Great Speckled Bird”
Eddy Arnold
Style: Moutaineer/Precurser
Song: “Nashville Pop”
Hank Williams
Style: “Mountineer
Song: “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
Delmore Brothers
Style: Mountaineer
Song: “Hillbilly Boogie”
Bill Monroe
Style: Bluegrass
Song:”Blue Moon of Kentucky”
The Byrds
Style:Rock & Roll
Song: “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”
Gene Autry
Style: Singing Cowboy
Song: “Back in the Saddle Again”
Sons of the Pioneers
Style Singing Cowboys
Song: “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”
Bob Wills
Style: Western Swing
Song: “San Antonio Rose”
Asleep at the Wheel
Western Swing
Ernest Tubb
Style: Honky Tonk
Song:
“Walkin the Floor Over You”
Ted Daffan
Honky Tonk
Song: “Born to Lose”
Al Dexter
Honky Tonk
Leadbelly
Folk Blues
“Good Night Irene”
Josh White
Folk Blues
“Careless Love” or “Southern Exposer”
Woody Guthrie
Urban Folk
“This Land is Your Land”
Pete Seeger
Urban Folk
“If I had a Hammer”
The Weavers
Urban Folk
“Goodnight Irene”
Key Independent Record Company
(Henry Glover – Black sing-writer-producer)
King Records
Louis Hardin and Alan Freed had a conflict over calling this music “Moondog Music” its now called
Rock & Roll
Famous Song by Nat King Cole
“Route 66”
Who was the “Queen of Rhythm and Blues”
Dinah Washington
Ramblin Blues singer, Copied by Bob Dylan
Woody Guthrie
Dylan’s only #1 hit
“Like a Rolling Stone”
She was an “Eclectic Chameleon”
He was the single greatest force in country rock
Name the duo
Linda Ronsdadt & Gram Parsons