Chapter 7 Study Items Top 40 radio programming 155 Payola 155 a practice that involved record companies paying DJs to put their records in heavy rotation New Technology 156 158 magnetic tape a new way of recording music Tape captured the full range of musical sounds and allowed musicians to rerecord over unsatisfactory parts and add layers of sound FM radio frequency modulation Used higher frequency than AM which gave it better sound quality and was not disrupted by electrical disturbances as often LPs Long playing discs that could play 20 minutes of music 45s a 7 inch 45 r p m that held a single song People could make a stack of 45s and use the record changer to have a stack of favorites television Had such a big success because of the use of recorded and live music performances Bobby soxers 160 fans of swing music usually teenage girls Billboard a music trade journal 81 A magazine that is devoted to the music industry First issued in 1894 Rhythm Blues and Country Western 173 74 a more dignified way of saying race records Became much popular as radio stations expanded WDIA Memphis 174 first radio station dedicated to a black audience covering a song or cover version 176 a new performance of a song already recorded Usually a white artist sings a song recorded by a black artist Jump blues 176 the first commercially successful category of rhythm and blues Listening Frank Sinatra 1915 1998 Nancy With the Laughing Face 1945 and Theme from New York New York 1980 Nat King Cole 1917 1965 Unforgettable 1950 and Mona Lisa 1950 The Weavers Goodnight Irene 1950 P rez Prado 1916 1989 Mambo No 5 1949 Louis Jordan 1908 1975 Choo Choo Ch Boogie 1946 Charles Brown 1922 1999 Black Night 1951 Muddy Waters 1915 1983 I m Your Hoochie Coochie Man 1954 The Dominoes Sixty Minute Man 1951 and Have Mercy Baby Ruth Brown 1928 2006 Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean 1953 Big Mama Thornton 1926 1984 Hound Dog 1953 Bill Monroe 1911 1997 It s Mighty Dark to Travel 1947 Hank Williams 1923 1953 I m So Lonesome I Could Cry 1949 and Hey Good Lookin 1951 Eddy Arnold 1918 2008 Make the World Go Away 1965 Kitty Wells b 1919 It Wasn t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels 1952
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