Music:
Stephen Foster: If you want to know what was on antebellum America's mind, Stephen Foster will tell you
Benny Goodman: Biggest, loudest orchestra of the era
John Philips Sousa: Marching music was incredibly popular from 1890 to 1920 and he was the greatest composer of them all
Frank Sinatra: Do I have to explain this?
Robert Johnson: Hello, blues licks
Elvis Presley: Mainstreamed Rock and Roll
Chuck Berry: Turned Rock into guitar music
Hank Williams: Made Country Music popular*
Beach Boys: Took Berry's idea and made harmonies with it
Michael Jackson: King of Pop and music videos
What about Jazz? People don't actually like Jazz. They just say they do.
*Could probably use some help in this department.
Ok Jonny Horton sung the battle of New Orleans and sink the Bismarck Charlie Pride Geroge Jones Merle Haggard Dolly Parton Lyortta Lynn Porter Wagner Buddy Holly Patsy Cline Roy Clark Roy Rodgers and Gene Atury
ReplyDeleteForgot blues you have to have B B King
ReplyDeleteBluegrass Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley
ReplyDeleteElla Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington for jazz....Cole Porter as great american songwriter.
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