Below are listed the subjects my Rock and Roll presentations cover. All class are a combination of MP4 music videos and comments on the subjects by me. Most of the presentations are presented weekly in sixty, ninety, or 120minute sessions over a period of at least six weeks.
Looks at how Rock and Roll evolved from Minstrel Shows, Medicine Shows, Blues, Country, Mississippi Delta Blues, Chicago Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rockabilly and other genres.
The period from 1959 to 1963. Before the Beatles and the British invasion. Rhythm and Blues, Philadelphia artists, American Bandstand, and others.
1963 and 1964. The British Invasion, Motown, The Girl Groups, Leslie Gore, Dion, Wilson Pickett, Smoky Robinson, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Gerry and the Pacemakers and more.
1965 and 1966
1967 thru 1969
The Crows, Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, The Robins, The Coasters, The Penguins. Plus many more from those great sock hop days
Women performers from Memphis Minnie to Eva Cassidy and Judy Collins
"I'll Be Home For Christmas", "Rum and a Coca-Cola", "Lola", " (What Did I do To Be So) Black and Blue", "Sixty Minute Man" "Maybellene", "Splish Splash", "Eight Miles High" and others
Pete Seeger, Fred Neil, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, The Staple Singers, Simon and Garfunkel, Rod McKuen and more
The men and women who inspired others to write songs about them. The good relationships and the boys from hell are all in this course.
The musicians and entertainers who died at age 27. Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin et.al.
Otis Redding, Emmett Mille , Lee Roy Abernathy, Brenda Lee, Ray Whitley, Dave Prater Jr., Fletcher Henderson, Billy Joe Royal, Joe South and more.
Leiber and Stoller, King and Goffin, Domino and Bartholomew, Pomus and Shuman, Hayes and Porter, Ashford and Simpson and more
Take a look at how the Beatles music changed over the years.
From The Pendletons to "Smile". Listen to the Beach Boys mature
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