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1960s Music Packet by Victor Pavao 1. During a lull in her career, this musician sang backing vocals on Elton John’s song “Ballad of a Well-Known Gun.” This musician’s highest-charting single was reworked from Pino Donaggio’s song “Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)” (“yo kay non vivo senza tay”) by her collaborator Vicki Wickham. This musician’s long-time partner Norma Tanega wrote “No Stranger Am I” for her, which appears on her album titled [her] ... Definitely . This musician recorded the first vocal version of Burt Bacharach’s song (*) “The Look of Love.” While recording for Atlantic in the US, this musician covered a Wexler-Marden-Dowd song that Aretha Franklin had originally turned down. Late in her career, she was featured on the Pet Shop Boys song “What Have I Done to Deserve This?.” This artist’s iconic blonde beehive hairstyle appears on the cover of an album titled [her] in Memphis . For 10 points, name this British singer of “Son of a Preacher Man.” ANSWER: Dusty Springfield [accept Mary (Isobel Catherine Bernadette) O’Brien ] 2. This song’s riff was inspired by the Chicano rock song “El Loco Cha Cha Cha,” and its Caribbean English-inflected lyrics were inspired by Nat King Cole’s “Havana Moon.” After being featured on a “worst records” radio program, this song sold 21,000 copies in Boston. While recording a cover of this song, Lynn Easton shouted “Fuck!” after accidentally hitting his drum sticks together. After undergoing a lineup change, the band that recorded the most successful version of this song followed it up with “The (*) Jolly Green Giant.” This song’s riff uses a V (“five”) minor chord, unlike “Wild Thing.” After a successful garage rock cover, this Richard Berry song was the subject of a two-year FBI investigation. This song’s narrator waits to board a ship so he can see a “Fine little girl [that] waits for me.” For 10 points, name this song popularized by the Kingsmen. ANSWER: “ Louie Louie ” 3. A 13-minute song from this album features a harmonica blown through a Kustom Electronics “bag” device, possibly its first appearance in recorded music. This album’s title track states “You’ve been sitting much too long / There’s a permanent crease in your right and wrong.” Cynthia Robinson and background vocalists Little Sister are prominently featured on a song from this album that closed the band’s Summer of Soul set; that song is centered on repeated shouts of “higher!”. A bizarre talk box solo is featured on a track addressed to (*) “Whitey” on this album. Slap bass was introduced to the public on the single “Thank You,” which was released just after this album. A number-one single from this album pleads “We got to live together!” after stating “Sometimes I’m right and I can be wrong.” “I Want to Take You Higher” and “Everyday People” appear on, for 10 points, which 1968 album by Sly and the Family Stone? ANSWER: Stand ! 4. A man sometimes called the first hippie, Eden Ahbez, recorded an album in which he reads beat poetry over this genre. In the 2000s, Capitol Records released an 18-volume compilation titled “Ultra-” this genre. Artists in this genre were the first to utilize stereophonic recording, which enhanced the sound effects made by Augie Colón. The song “Mini Skirt” was recorded by the Mexican “king” of this genre, Esquivel. A best-selling cover of the Haitian folk song “Choucoune” was recorded in this genre by Arthur Lyman under the name “Yellow Bird.” A 1957 album by (*) Martin Denny is credited with popularizing marimba in this genre, whose origin is traced to Ritual of the Savage by Les Baxter and “Virgin of the Sun God” by Yma (“imma”) Sumac. This broad genre was marketed to former servicemen who had served in the Pacific. For 10 points, name this easy listening genre that idealized foreign lands and the tropics. ANSWER: exotica [accept lounge ; accept bachelor pad music; accept space age pop; accept cocktail music; prompt on “beautiful music”; prompt on “easy listening”] (lounge and exotica are technically separate genres but there’s enough overlap for them to be in the same answerline.)

5. While writing songs for this album, its artist obsessively listened to Ray Charles’s album The Genius Sings the Blues from his residence in Hydra, Greece. A song from this album states “Several girls embraced me, then / I was embraced by men” after stating “I ate and ate and ate / No, I did not miss a plate.” Another song from this album describes a gambler who “didn’t leave you very much, not even laughter” that was “just some Joseph looking for a manger.” Another song from this album was inspired by the artist’s friend who had the surname Verdal. The period of productivity that produced this album also produced the novel Beautiful Losers . This album contains “The (*) Stranger Song,” “Sisters of Mercy,” and a song about a woman who brings “tea and oranges that come all the way from China.” For 10 points, name this 1967 debut album that contains “So Long, Marianne” and “Suzanne,” by a Canadian singer-songwriter. ANSWER: Songs of Leonard Cohen 6. Rolf Harris’s wobble board instrument is featured in a long solo section in a song narrated by this character’s son. This character laments the “Soft, white dreams with sugar coated outside” of his “young and innocent days.” This character buys a hat “like Anthony Eden’s” while his wife buys one “like Princess Marina” to distract from their family’s poverty. This character’s son Derek sings of a place with “no class distinction [...] no drug addiction” on the song (*) “Australia.” This working-class character praises the “Croquet lawns, village greens” of a bygone era when Victoria was “[his] queen.” For 10 points, name this title character of an album titled [him] Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire , released in 1969 by the Kinks. ANSWER: Arthur Morgan 7. One track on an album that begins with this title word has a 9-bar B section in 3/4 time that is played over the three pedal points of F, B-flat, and D-flat. In reviewing an album that begins with this title word, critics like Lawrence Kart and Keith Waters drew connections between songs like “Freedom Jazz Dance” and the avant-garde, despite the artist’s dismissal of Ornette Coleman. This is the first title word of the album that contains the Wayne Shorter composition “Paraphernalia,” and the metrically ambiguous “Black Comedy,” and was released the same year as the artist’s (*) Filles de Kilimanjaro . This is the first title word of a 1967 album that contains “Dolores” and a metrically modular cover of “Footprints.” Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter were part of the Second Great Quintet that recorded albums titled [this word] in the Sky and [this word] Smiles . For 10 points, give the first name of the trumpeter who recorded Kind of Blue . ANSWER: Miles [accept Miles Smiles and Miles in the Sky ] (the opening line refers to “Paraphernalia”) 8. This song’s success inspired an odd remake of Waltzin’ Matilda by Jimmy Soul, and a Dovells song that combined it with their hit “Bristol Stomp” and “Work with Me, Annie.” Dick Clark orchestrated this song’s biggest success by ordering Cameo-Parkway Records to re-record a complete soundalike version of the original. The original version of this song was the B-side to the ballad “Teardrops on Your Letter” by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, who had adapted it from a Sensational Nightingales song. The impressionist who recorded the most successful version of this song followed it up with (*) “Pony Time,” “Limbo Rock,” and a song titled “Lets [do this song’s title action] Again.” This song began a second chart run after the success of a Joey Dee and the Starliters song titled for “Peppermint.” “Take me by my little hand / And go like this” is an instruction from, for 10 points, which biggest hit by Chubby Checker? ANSWER: “The Twist ”

13. A song that begins with this title word quotes the folk song “The Girl I Left Behind” and Julius Fučík’s (“FOO-chik”) “Entrance of the Gladiators,” and was inspired by King Curtis’s solo on a 1958 song. This unique word precedes “axe” in the title of Chet Atkins’s version of a novelty song that was co-written by Spider Rich. Dub Jones and Cornell Gunter fronted a comedic R&B vocal group whose highest-charting single was a Lieber-Stoller song that began with this title word. The Benny Hill Show popularized a Boots Randolph song beginning with this title word that often accompanied TV scenes of rapidly-paced, time-lapse (*) chases. A 1958 Billboard #1 hit that begins with this title word had the B-side “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” and was followed up the group’s single “Charlie Brown.” “Take out the papers and the trash!” begins a Coasters song whose title begins with, for 10 points, which unique word that precedes “yak” in that title? ANSWER: “ yakety ” 14. A group titled for these items recorded an odd cover of Cousin Emmy’s “Ruby (Are You Mad),” and was later sued by Pan Am for using its logo on the cover of their album Contact. A 1967 album titled for these items required its artist to work 10-hour days to set up various patchcord configurations, and took its title from W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Song of Wandering Aengus.” An album titled for these items was the most successful release by a composer who co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramon Sender. An album commissioned by Nonesuch Records to showcase the (*) Buchla 100 synthesizer was titled [these items] of the Moon , which was recorded by Morton Subotnick. A group titled for these items was formed by Dan Taylor and Simeon Coxe, whose music mostly featured oscillators backed by unrelenting drum beats. For 10 points, name this two-word term that names a pioneering experimental electronic band from New York City that released a 1968 self-titled album. ANSWER: silver apples [prompt on “apples”] 15. A 2019 paper by Brian F. Wright discusses how a member of this group’s acolytes in music history unduly overlook the contributions of Carol Kaye. That member of this group almost exclusively played a 1961 Fender Precision model alongside member Bob Babbitt. An early lineup of this group backed The Contours’ “Do You Love Me.” This group often recorded demo versions of (*) Holland-Dozier-Holland songs. This group was virtually unknown to the public until a 2002 documentary whose title plays on the name of the Four Tops’ hit “Standing in the Shadows of Love.” Earl van Dyke and James Jamerson were members of this group, which was often seen as Detroit’s version of the Wrecking Crew. For 10 points, name this group of Motown session musicians. ANSWER: The Funk Brothers [accept reasonable equivalents like “session musicians at Motown ” or “ rhythm section at Motown ” before “Motown”] 16. This song’s bass part repeats two-five note sequences, the first of which begins with a low pickup up to the following dotted quarter notes – G, F#, F, E. This song was written by an eccentric folk-rock singer who later co-wrote the “Most Original Soft Drink” jingle for Dr. Pepper, and it appeared on album titled for his Above Ground Sounds . After Jim McCarty heard this song, the Yardbirds added a bowed guitar part and began playing it live. This song, which is said to reference a bad acid trip, has a dirge-like verse section in 12/8 time. This song was written by (*) Jake Holmes, who was left uncredited when Jimmy Page included it on his band’s debut album. For 10 points, name this Led Zeppelin album track that also titles a 1993 film directed by Richard Linklater. ANSWER: “ Dazed and Confused ”

17. A critic from this country called for an “anticonsumerist underground” that allowed for “complete autonomy” of producers and bands in a book that criticized his country’s pop music. Referencing an LSD producer, a band from this country named three tracks after “Garden Sandosa” on their album Psychedelic Underground . A group of Situationists that attempted to “pudding assassinate” Hubert Humphrey called Kommune 1 were part of this non-France country’s “68er generation.” The nursery rhyme “Mary Mary, So Contrary” inspired Malcolm Mooney’s improvised lyrics on (*) Monster Movie , the debut album by a band from this country that was led by Holger Czukay (“shoo-KAI”). A genre that developed in this country spawned bands like Popol Vuh, Amon Düül II, and Can. For 10 points, name this country where krautrock was developed in the late 1960s. ANSWER: West Germany (the opening line refers to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser’s Book of the New Pop Music .) 18. John Barry’s characteristic “James Bond progression” originated in his string arrangement for this singer’s second number-one single. This singer’s appearance on the program Face to Face resulted in him being frequently invited as the “voice of the youth” on network television. This singer imitated Buddy Holly’s “hiccup” vocals on his early singles, which were the first UK number-one hits on the Parlophone label. This singer of “I’ve Just Fallen For Someone” caused an international incident when he refused to perform for segregated audiences in South Africa. Like (*) Billy Fury, this British singer recorded eleven UK number-one hits before The Beatles broke through in 1963. For 10 points, name this teen idol who recorded the hits “Poor Me” and “What Do You Want?” ANSWER: Adam Faith [accept Terence (Nelhams) Wright ] 19. According to his daughter, the singer of this song thought it was “self-serving and self-indulgent” and hated it. An album titled for this song includes Rod McKuen’s English-language version of Jacques Brel’s “Ne me quitte pas” and Jimmy Webb’s song “Didn’t We?,” which were both backed by Don Costa’s orchestra. David Bowie attempted to write the English version of this song under the title “Even a Fool Learns to Love.” This Jacques (*) Revaux, Gilles Thibaut, and Claude François song was translated into English by Paul Anka. A string of karaoke-related murders in the Philippines are tied to overperformance of this song. This song’s narrator states he “planned each charted course / Each careful step along the byway.” For 10 points, name this sentimental song about an individual’s life by Frank Sinatra. ANSWER: “ My Way ” [accept “ Comme d’habitude ”] 20. A reharmonization of “Taps” opens “Vaseline Machine Gun,” a 1969 song in this genre. An album in this genre contains long elusive track subtitles like “From an old Etruscan drawing of a sperm cell” and is nicknamed for the Armadillo on its black-and-white cover. A musician who recorded this genre led the short-lived Takoma Records while studying at UCLA. Musicians in this genre like (*) Leo Kottke (“kaat-kee”) incorporated the styles of their country blues idols like Bukka White. Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes and The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death are two albums in this genre. Musicians who play this genre often play 12-string guitars with intricate fingerpicking, often with open tunings. For 10 points, name this genre of instrumental guitar music pioneered by John Fahey. ANSWER: American Primitive guitar [accept American Pritivism ; prompt on “primitive guitar” or “primitivism” or “fingerstyle guitar”]

by the Mothers of Invention before being sacked by Zappa for heroin use. This city’s Minit Records released Ernie-K-Doe’s hit “Mother-in-Law.” “Big Chief” and “Tipitina” are piano blues standards from this city that were first recorded by (*) Professor Longhair. Second line drumming is featured on songs from this city like “Hey Pocky-a-Way” by The Meters. A musician from this city born Malcolm Rebennack wrote “I Walk On Guilded Splinters,” which was released on his 1968 album Gris Gris (“gree gree”). For 10 points, name this home city of Allen Touissant, Aaron Neville, and Dr. John. ANSWER: New Orleans , Louisiana (the opening line refers to songs written by Allen Touissant.) 26. This band covered a Bennie Benjamin-Horace Ott jazz ballad that was first recorded on Nina Simone’s album Broadway-Blues-Ballads . Graham Bond helped this band secure their first gig outside the Newcastle scene. After being discovered by Mickey Most, this band reworked the blues standard “Don’t Tear My Clothes” into their first single, “Baby Let Me Take You Home.” A song by this band was the first Billboard number-one song to feature the Vox Continental organ, which was played by band member Alan (*) Price on a song whose chord progression begins A minor–C major–D major–F major. This British band recorded “We Gotta Get Outta This Place,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” and a folk song about a “ruin for many poor boys.” Eric Burdon fronted, for 10 points, which band that recorded a best-selling cover of “House of the Rising Sun”? ANSWER: The Animals 27. Horace Clarence Boyer credited this state’s Echoes of Eden Choir as the “first true gospel choir.” That group recorded the hit “Yield Not to Temptation” while under the leadership of this state’s mainstay songwriter J. Earle Hines. James Cleveland, who later moved to this state, borrowed his “Peace, Be Still” arrangement from its influential gospel figure Gwendolyn Lightner. Joe Ligon’s Mighty Clouds of Joy originated in this state, also home to the choir that backed (*) Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace performance. A group of gospel singers from this state recorded the 1969 crossover hit “Oh Happy Day.” Larry Norman and other musicians from this state originated Christian rock and Jesus music. The birth of traditional black gospel is sometimes traced to this state’s Azusa Street Revival. For 10 points, the mainstreaming of gospel music in the 1960s was facilitated by musicians in which state’s city of Los Angeles? ANSWER: California 28. On her album To Love Somebody, Nina Simone recorded a two-part “answer” to a song titled for this type of event that states “Its not as simple as talkin’ jive / The daily struggle just to stay alive.” Jean Luc-Godard also criticized that song, stating its performers were “corrupted by money.” Pee Wee Crayton’s song “Do Unto Others” inspired the remake of a song titled for this type of event, which features distorted fuzz guitar and excludes the original “bom-shoo-bee-doo-wop” background vocals. The line “Take this brother, may it serve you well” is played after a list of dances on a (*) sound collage titled for this type of event that was inspired by Yoko Ono’s ‘secret diary tape’. The B-side to “Hey Jude” was titled for this type of event, which repeats “Don't you know it’s gonna be alright.” For 10 points, name this type of event that titles John Lennon’s “#9” sound collage on The Beatles’ White Album. ANSWER: revolution [accept “ Revolution #1” and “ Revolution #9”] 29. This musician convinced Stax to record his backing musicians Oscar Mack and Eddie Kirkland. A song by this artist that begins with the chord changes “G major, B major, C major, A major” was inspired by his stay in Sausalito, California. This artists stands in a cap and gown on the cover of an album whose A-side is covers and B-side is mostly originals. This singer ad-libbed most of his version of “Satisfaction” after not being able to transcribe the full song. This singer was backed by Booker T. and the M.G.’s at the (*) Monterey Pop Festival, where he was introduced to a national audience. Isaac Hayes began his session career while recording this musician’s “Come to Me” and “Security.” This musician drowned after the Beechcraft plane

he was traveling in crashed into a Wisconsin lake. For 10 points, name this singer of “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay.” ANSWER: Otis Redding