Blog

What female gospel singer, who recorded originally for Apollo Records, sang on “Evenings With Dorsey” and was known for songs like “God’s Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares” and “Movin’ On Up.” 

What city was the “center” for country music from 1924 until the end of World War II? 

What African-American singer was a “crooner” and recorded “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting by an Open Fire)” and “Unforgettable?” 

What kind of music dominated the V-Disks during world War II? 

Who was the banjo player who joined Bill Monroe’s band at the end of 1945 and created the “defining” sound of bluegrass? 

The need for a lobbying group to monitor legislation concerning the recording industry, compile statistics on record industry sales as well as the problems of free records to disk jockeys, payola to radio, technical requirements for records and the discounting of records led to the formation of what trade association and lobbying group in 1951? 

What did the Supreme Court decision stating, in essence, that “when a record was purchased at its list price, all property rights belonged to the buyer” have to do with the commercial music industry? 

What singing star emerged in 1943 as a solo act after working with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras and became a “bobby sox” idol with his debut hit “All or Nothing at All.” 

Beginning in 1947, a new consumer technology was marketed that would lead to the decline of network radio. What was it? 

During the 1950s Nashville emerged as the center for what kind of music?