There were several ways:
1. The GROUP became the key element of music. In the 1950s there was Elvis, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis, Pattie Page, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Joan Weber, etc…. but in the 1960s it was more common to hear of GROUPS: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Mamas and the Papas, Herman’s Hermits, the Four Seasons, The Tokens, The Drifters, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Byrds, the Turtles, Freddie and the Dreamers, Steam, Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, The Lemon Pipers, the Monkees and host of others.
2. Music in the 1960s also began to establish the singer-songwriter moreso than we saw in the 1950s. Most 1950s artists hired songwriting teams to write their songs, but in the 1960s we saw Paul McCartney, John Lennon, george Harrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Jim Morison, Roger McGuinn, Crosy, Stills, and Nash and others write their own music and lyrics, AND sing them themselves.
3. In the 1960s the ALBUM became much more important as a conept or theme for groups to share their music with. Pet Sounds, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Morison Hotel, Abbey Road, and others are examples.
And there you hve it.
Ekatarina Velika – Rock n Roll music
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1963 and earlier. Complete names of individuals and groups counts!
I have been listening to Sirius 50s on 5 all day long so I might have a bit of an advantage:
The Big Bopper
Ritchie Valens
Bill Haley and his Comets
Bobby Darin
Connie Francis
Chubby Checker
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
Gene Chandler
The Shirelles
The Chiffons
Buddy Holly & the Crickets (w/ and w/o Crickets)
Ricky Nelson
Little Richard
Elvis Presley
Gary "U.S." Bonds
Soupy Sales
The Cadillacs
Brook Benton
The Moonglows
Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Bobby Rydell
Nat King Cole
Chuck Berry
Diamonds
The Crests
The Marvelettes
The Ventures
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Fats Domino
Sam Cooke
Joanie Sommers
Bobby Freeman
LaVern Baker
Guy Mitchell o/ Ray Conniff
Chordettes
Frankie Lymon
Frankie Valle & the Four Seasons
Chris Montez
The Platters
The Capris
The Sensations
The Poni-tails
Jerry Wallace
Dovells
Dee Dee Sharp
Jay and the Americans
Ray Charles
Paul AnkaCrystalsThe Tokens
The Lettermen
Pat Boone
The Kingston Trio
Brenda Lee
The Impalas
Joe Dowell
Della Reese
Lesley Gore
Barbara Lewis
The Drifters
I came home from work early only to find her playing a rock and roll record. She’s nearly 19 and I’m afraid of what she’s doing when I’m not around. Whether it be shaking her hips or experimenting with cigarettes. Please help with what I should say or do to her.
LOL how funny would it be if some fundie actually believed this question was real and tried to give you advice…
I love rock music, and I know it sounds pretty stupid but I wanna be a rockstar, go ahead and make fun but still. Its a possibility for me. Any way, I wanted to help my one friend who has a band with some songs, does anyone have any suggestions for writing songs? Anything from writing them to getting ideas for the songs to naming them.
Study the Rolling Stones, especially their 1st 10 years. You don’t want to impersonate them, but look at the variety of types of songs, how they are put together, and how the lyrics work. Then rock out your own style.
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It seems like it started to collapse a few times in the 80s, tried to revive in the early 90s and is now just a fringe genre. Classic rock is still popular i guess, but i’m talking about new bands and new albums.
Would people rather hear rap or britney spears than drums and a guitar?
Sadly yes it seems =/
This is why I think it happened, in the 50’s and before that, music never made any bold statements, they were just pleasant tunes to play on the wireless.
Then in the 60’s there was a big musical, social and spiritual revolution, everybody was expanding their minds and experimenting and suddenly they had something to beleive in, and the music of the time reflected this, it started to carry messages and opinions that people held close to their hearts, the same happened in the 70’s, people were writing protest songs and delivering political messages via music, so music still had underlying meaning that people could truely connect with on a deep level…..
then along came the 80’s….
Synthesizers and sequencers were invented, sparkly metallic fabric and rediculous hair became the new glue that held a generation together, as opposed to the former philosophies of peace, love, harmony and freedom that actually had some substance, and people departed from using natural, earthly mind expandatory drugs like pot and LSD and instead started popping synthetic man made party drugs, causing them to be more interested in dancing the night away than actually caring about what goes on in the world.
So completely void of meaning and pure emotion, the music of the 80’s now became cheap candy that people ate up and spat out without it inspiring a single thought or emotion within them.
And seeing as music wasn’t coming from the heart anymore, genuine, raw music like rock found it hard to make an appearence.
There was the exception of a few great bands like Guns and Roses and Motley Crue and AC/DC and INXS and stuff, but they didn’t necessarily convey too many strong messages, they more led by example and pushed the notion of living in excess, which in a way, was a 60’s throw back to a Neitsche philosophy adopted by Jim Morrison, that living and thinking in total excess induced chaos, from which came the total freedom and enlightenement of insanity, so in a way while they weren’t telling us the message, they were the message.
I think whatever it was that momentarily revived rock in the 90’s was centralized in Seattle where bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins etc… started out, I dont think there was too much of a global effort to revive rock so much as the seattle scene taking off and giving us a few more decent albums before the turn of the millenium.
Since 2000 though, its been pretty slim pickings, if you ask me, the only decent albums released since then by current artists have been Mezmerize and Hypnotize by System of a Down, 2 cohesive, conceptual records build around a solid set of world views and opinions, and musically brilliant too, not just on its own, but in serving to boost the message of the lyrics.
Thats my take on it anyway…
BACK TO ROCK. THIS CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL SONG BY TOM JONES WAS WRITTEN BY THE GREAT CHUCK BERRY.FOUND ON ‘THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION’, ‘DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS’, ‘THE SENSATIONAL TOM JONES’, ‘THE TIGER’ AND TOM JONES TELEVISION SHOWS’. ALSO RECORDED BY CHUCK BERRY. THE BEACH BOYS, THE ANIMALS, BO DIDDLEY, GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS, ETC………..
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is it just me or does it seem like rock and roll has just been thrown out of the window?
im watching the grammy’s and it seems like rock no longer exists.
there are a few out there, green day,kings of leon,volbeat,and a couple other’s.
but there are harldey any rock or heavy metal music out there.
and people claim screamo is, and it’s not!
it’s just people screaming.
anyone agree?
hahaha…..yeah, the grammys are a great place to find rock and roll…..hahahaha!!?!
I’m writing an extended metaphor poem for my English class. rock & roll is something I’m very close, passionate and emotional to but i can’t seem to think of something to compare it to, have any ideas? i swear i’ll pick a best answer
Rock and roll, the train rumbling through town, all whistles and noise, no gates are closing.