Early Rock 'N' Roll Review

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