Music 3200 - History of Rock ‘n’ Roll

MUSIC LISTENING LIST FOR EXAM I

This listening list comprises the material for all MATCHING QUESTIONS drawing information from song titles, artists, and
sub-genres.

1. Songs marked by an asterisk (*) are LISTENING QUESTIONS

a. EXAMPLE QUESTION
i. SONG
ii. STYLE
iii. INSTRUMENTS
iv. VOCAL STYLE
v. LYRIC CONTENT

2. Songs marked as FORMAL ANALYSIS questions are discussed in further detail. This information can be found in
the text.
a. EXAMPLE QUESTION
i. Who is the artist?
ii. What is the name of the song?
iii. What is the genre?
iv. Pick 2 correct musical characteristics.
v. What is the form?
vi. What is the time signature?
vii. What is the instrumentation?

CHAPTER 1 – The World Before Rock ‘n’ Roll

“POP” MUSIC
Teresa Brewer
Music, Music, Music*
Johnny Ray
Cry*
Nat King Cole
Too Young*
Leroy Anderson
Blue Tango*
Jo Stafford
You Belong To Me
Les Paul and Mary Ford
I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World
Patti Page
Doggie in the Window*

COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC

Country Music

The Carter Family

Can the Circle Be Unbroken*
Roy Acuff and His Crazy Tennesseans
Great Speckled Bird

Western Music and Western Swing

Gene Autry
Back In the Saddle Again*
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys
New San Antonio Rose*

Country & Western Music

Hank Williams
Hey Good Lookin’ FORMAL ANALYSIS (discussed in the text)
Little Jimmy Dickens
Hillbilly Fever*

Bluegrass

Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

Blue Moon of Kentucky*
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
RHYTHM AND BLUES
Rural Blues

Robert Johnson
Crossroads*

Gospel Influenced Blues

Ray Charles
I Got A Woman*
This Little Girl of Mine

Chess Records – Chicago Blues

Muddy Waters
Hard Day Blues*
Bo Diddley
I’m a Man*
Johnny Lee Hooker
Boom Boom

Atlantic Record – Black Pop

Ruth Brown
Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)*
Clyde McPhatter
Honey Love
Big Joe Turner
Shake, Rattle and Roll FORMAL ANALYSIS (discussed in the text)

Doo-Wop

The Chords
Sh-Boom* (this will be subsumed under DOO-WOP)
The Five Satins
In The Still of the Night

CHAPTER 2 – The Birth and First Flourishing of R’n’R

CROSSOVERS AND COVERS
The Crows
Gee
The Crew Cuts
Sh-Boom
Bill Haley& the Comets
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Rock Around the Clock
Pat Boone
Tutti Frutti
I’ll Be Home
Wonderful Time Up There
The Flamingoes
I’ll Be Home
Elvis Presley
That’s All Right FORMAL ANALYSIS (discussed in the text)
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Blue Suede Shoes
Jailhouse Rock
It’s Now or Never
Big Mama Thornton
Hound Dog
Lloyd Price
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Carl Perkins
Blue Suede Shoes

MAINSTREAM ROCK
Fats Domino
Ain’t That A Shame*
Blueberry Hill FORMAL ANALYSIS (discussed in the text)
I’m Walkin’*
Little Richard
Tutti Frutti*
Long Tall Sally*
Good Golly Miss Molly
Chuck Berry
Maybellene
School Day*
Johnny B. Goode
ROCKABILLY
Sun Records Artists
Carl Perkins
Blue Suede Shoes*
Johnny Cash
I Walk the Line*
Jerry Lee Lewis
Crazy Arms
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On*
Great Balls of Fire
Good Golly Miss Molly

Rockabilly on other Labels

Gene Vincent
Be-Bop-a-Lula
Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues*
Buddy Holly
That’ll Be the Day
Peggy Sue
Oh Boy!*
It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
DOO-WOP
The Orioles
Crying in the Chapel
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Why Do Fools Fall in Love*
The Dell-Vikings
Come Go With Me*
The Platters
The Great Pretender*
The Coasters
Yakety-Yak