Friendly Warning Test # 2 next Week(Thursday) 19 July 2012.ppt

Friendly Warning :Test # 2 next Week(Thursday) 19 July 2012 Covers “1950s”:Chapters 2 3 Chapter 3 Overview 1959 – 1963 : “End” of Rock ‘n Roll until the “British Invasion” (Beatles, etc.) Return to old-fashioned marketing (Tin Pan Alley)- market segmentation into teenyboppers and older “Brill Building” - Aldon Music- Sedaka, King, Weil Mann, Barry Greenwich, etc.- Manufactured “talent” (Avalon, Fabian, etc.)- Rise of the Producer (Phil Spector, etc.) “Soul” Music – R B goes mainstream Rockabilly goes Pop Surf Music from California Folk Music influences – politics social issues Brill Building North end of Times Square Aldon Music locates here “Vertical integration” of- songwriting- demos- publishing- recording distribution Producers in charge Songwriting to order Girl Groups 1619 Broadway Brill Building Sound (early ‘60s) King Goffin : YouTube - THE SHIRELLES-WILL U STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW (1960) King Goffin : YouTube - Little Eva The Locomotion (1962) Sedaka Howie Greenfield: Stupid Cupid Connie Francis - YouTube Ellie Greenwich Jeff Barry : The Ronettes - YouTube Ronald Mack (manager, not a songwriter) : THE CHIFFONS (HIGH QUALITY) - HES SO FINE *Different version* - YouTube (1963, pop #1) (rejected by Capitol records as “too trite…too simple”) Carole King (b. 1942) Gerry Goffin (b. 1939) Neil Sedaka (b. 1939) Howie Greenfield (1936-86) (Jerry) Lieber and (Mike) Stoller R B composers/producers Numerous crossover hits (“Hound dog”, “Kansas City”) “We thought we were black….” “….we write records” Musical stories in well produced formats (first for RB) Ex. The Coasters - Charlie Brown - YouTube Ex. YouTube - Down in Mexico by The Coasters (text, p. 129) The Coasters Phil Spector(b. 1939) Session musican/composer Producer as “star” “Wall of Sound” Examples- Da Doo Ron Ron by The Crystals (Lyrics) – YouTube- YouTube - The Ronettes - Be My Baby (Lip sync)- The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me (1963) – YouTube Recently…… Convicted of 2nd degree m