Early Rock 'N' Roll Review

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Across
  1. 2. Elvis’ bass player.
  2. 9. Artists associated with this style of music include Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Elvis Presley, and Bill Haley and His Comets.
  3. 10. Performed a "cleaned-up" cover versions of rock ‘n’ roll for mainstream audiences not quite yet ready for the real thing.
  4. 11. Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, and Big Mama Thornton are associated with this style of early R & B.
  5. 12. This record company bought the rights to Elvis Presley from Sun.
  6. 13. Robert Johnson and Leadbelly are associated with this style of music.
  7. 14. “Cross Road Blues”
  8. 16. Chess, Atlantic, and Sun were the most important ___________________ record companies of the 1950’s.
  9. 17. “Rock Around the Clock”
  10. 22. Sun Records was founded by _______________________.
  11. 27. “Hound Dog” (1952)
  12. 28. Which Elvis hit was originally written by Big Mama Thornton?
Down
  1. 1. “That’ll Be the Day”, “Oh, Boy”, “Peggy Sue”
  2. 2. This movie featured Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock”.
  3. 3. 3 new developments in the 1940’s and 1950’s that allowed for the rise of R & B and led to emerging rock ‘n’ roll styles.
  4. 4. “I Got My Mojo Workin’”
  5. 5. “Caldonia”
  6. 6. For a brief time, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis were signed to this label.
  7. 7. Record label based in New York had Big Joe Turner, The Coasters, and Ray Charles.
  8. 8. “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
  9. 15. “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, “Heartbreak Hotel”
  10. 18. Country-Swing artist, sang “Hey, Good Lookin’”.
  11. 19. Elvis Presley’s manager
  12. 20. Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, and Howlin’ Wolf were artists on this Chicago-based record label.
  13. 21. “Roll Over Beethoven”, “Rock and Roll Music”
  14. 23. “TuttiFrutti”, “Lucille”, “Ready Teddy”
  15. 24. “Ain’t That a Shame”, “Blue Monday”
  16. 25. Elvis Presley was born in _______________, Mississippi.
  17. 26. Elvis’ guitar player.