What's That Sound?: W. W. Norton StudySpace

1. Folk Rock
1. Bob Dylan
1. Popular folk singer in New York, 1960-1964
1. "Blowin' in the Wind"
2. Accomplished songwriter
3. Broke with folk tradition, 1964-1965
1. Bringin' it All Back Home
2. 1965 Newport Folk Festival
2. Byrds
1. Brill Building background
2. Based in Los Angeles
3. Released popular rock versions of folk songs
3. Authentic folk versus teen pop
1. Most members of Byrds to do not play on records
1. Wrecking Crew instead
2. American Pop
1. Los Angeles
1. Phil Spector
1. Crystals
2. Righteous Brothers
2. Beach Boys
1. "I Get Around"
2. Wilson stops touring
3. Pet Sounds
3. Sonny and Cher
1. "I Got You Babe"
2. Hippie fashion
4. Gary Lewis and the Playboys
5. Johnny Rivers
2. New York
1. Many Los Angeles groups have New York roots
2. Lovin' Spoonful
1. "Summer in the City"
3. Young Rascals
1. "Good Lovin' "
4. Four Seasons
1. "Sherry"
2. "Big Girls Don't Cry"
5. Vocal-heavy sound
3. Garage Bands
1. Proliferation of amateur bands in the wake of the Beatles
2. Many had only one hit
3. Important influence on later punk movement
4. Kingsmen and "Louie, Louie"
5. Mostly after summer 1965
4. Rock on Television
1. Paul Revere and the Raiders
1. Hosts of Dick Clark's Where the Action Is, 1962
2. Other television shows from the period
1. Shindig
2. Hullabaloo
2. Monkees
1. America's most commercially successful answer to the Beatles
2. Cast as television actors
3. Inspired by Beatles films
4. Offered complex hybrid of musical and cultural elements from the time
1. Brill Building
2. Beatles' model

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