Cassette Tapes, Motown and Ray Charles

Beach Boys, Cassette Tapes, Motown and Ray Charles

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Beach Boys

"Good Vibrations" and Pet Sounds

Multiple Choice

True or False: One of the group's biggest hits "Good Vibrations" was featured on the Pet Sounds album

• True

• False

Beach Boys

• They released the legendary Pet Sounds album in 1966.

• This album explored new approach to recording (much like the Beatles did with Sgt Peppers

• Singer/producer Brian Wilson recruited Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew to play the backing track for "Good Vibrations."

Cassette Tapes

Commercializing Tape

• Phillips introduced the cassette tape in 1963

• RCA's Sound Tape Cartridge was popular from 1963 - 1966

• 8 - Tracks were popular from 1965 - 1970

Ray Charles

the beginning of Soul music

Multiple Choice

What was Ray Charles' first #1 R&B hit?

• What'd I Say

• I Got a Woman

• Good VIbrations

• Shop Around

Ray Charles

• Recorded with Atlantic records

• He fused Gospel and Blues in what would become Soul music

• He got his start playing piano for Ruth Brown

• First #1 R&B hit: "I Got a Woman" (1955)

• His song "What'd I Say" got banned from radio stations for being too suggestive

Metamodern Sounds in Country and Western Music

• This album stands as "a milestone in the history of American popular music"

• released in 1962

• This album was a bold move for a Black artist at the time (Black musicians were not prominent in country music and America was amidst a period of racial tension)

• Commercially risky

Motown

Multiple Choice

Who founded Motown?

• Jerry Wexler

• Leonard Chess

• Berry Gordy Jr.

• Ahmet Ertegun

Multiple Select

Which of the following were characters involved in Motown Music

• The Supremes

• Ray Charles

• Holland - Dozier - Holland

• The Miracles

• Brian Wilson

Multiple Choice

What was Motown's first million selling pop-hit?

• "You Keep Me Hanging On"

• "Good Vibrations"

• "Shop Around"

• "Where Did Our Love Go?"

Motown

• Founded by Berry Gordy Jr in 1959 (Detroit, Michigan)

• Gordy worked to build a repertoire of artists that would appeal to both Black and white audiences

• Motown functioned both as a record label and a publishing company

• Motown housed the famous songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland

• Scored over 100 top 10 singles between 1961 and 1971

• They became the most successful Black owned record label in America (a title previously held by Vee-Jay)

The Supremes

• Gordy signed the girl group thinking they would be an instant sucess.

• However, they were called the "No Hit Supremes" early on because it took them a while to achieve success.

• Their first hit was: "Where Did Our Love Go?" (written by Holland-Dozier-Holland)

• Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote/produced a total of 8 hits for the group including "You Keep Me Hanging On"

• The group broke up when the front-woman Diana Ross left to pursue a solo career.

Stax Records

Memphis, Tennessee

Stax

• Memphis record label foccussed on R&B music

• They signed Otis Redding

• Their house-band was Booker T. and the MGs

Review

Multiple Choice

What Ray Charles song was banned from radio stations for being too suggestive.

• I Got A Woman

• What'd I Say

Multiple Choice

what writer/writing group was responsible for multiple Motown hits?

• Lieber-Stoller-Otis

• Otis Blackwell

• Holland-Dozier-Holland

• Bob Dylan