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Blues and country standards: key songs and recordings
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1You'd be Surprised1919
Written: Irving Berlin
Recorded: Billy Murray
Tin Pan Alley sound - 2Muskrat Ramble1926
Composed: Kid Ory
Recorded: Louis Armstrong and Hot Five
Most frequently recorded song
Jazz standard - 3One O'Clock Jump1937
Written: Count Basie
Reflects "riff style"
Jazz standard
12-bar blues
Label: Decca - 4The Prisoner's Song1924
Written: Vernon Dalhart
Best-selling song of 1920s
"Folk" of the people
Hillbilly song
Label: Victor - 5No Depression in Heaven1936
Recorded: The Carter Family
Recorded during depression
Group was an influence on bluegrass, country, rock and pop - 6Put it Right Here (Or Keep it Out There)1928
Recorded: Bessie Smith
African American artist who reached a national audience for the first time
Blues standard - 7Sweet Home Chicago1936
Recorded: Robert Johnson
Blues standard
Label: Chess - 8Hoochie Coochie Man1954
Written: Willie Dixon
Recorded: Muddy Waters
Blues standard - Classic Chicago Blues
Uses stop-time arrangement
Label: Chess - 9Your Cheating Heart1952
Written: Hank Williams
Country standard "defines country"
Honky-Tonk sound
Label: MGM - 10I Fall to Pieces1961
Recorded: Patsy Cline
Written: Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard
Country standard
"Nashville sound"
Label: Decca - 11What I Say1959
Recorded: Ray Charles
Controversial - sexual innuendos
One of the first soul songs
Label: Atlantic - 12Maybellene1955
Written: Chuck Berry
Adapted from western swing song
12-bar blues - 13Tutti Frutti1955
Written: Little Richard and Dorothy Labostrie
Model for Rock (loud volume, vocal style, beat and rhythm)
Fast boogie-shuffle rhythm
Label: Specialty - 14That's All Right1946/1954
Performed: Arthur Crudup, Elvis Presley
Elvis' first single, distinctive style
Elements of country and rhythm and blues
Rockabilly
Label: Sun - 15Hound Dog1952/1956
Written: Jerry Leiber + Mike Stoller
Recorded: Willie Mae Thornton/Elvis Presley
Sexual innuendos
Rock n Roll
Label: Sun
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