History of Rock and R&B

 

Billboard magazine (browse 1960s)

Billboard top songs of the year (year end charts)

Brill Building

• Spectropop: Brill Building
• “Mike Stoller on the Musical Universe of the Brill Building” (3/25/2014, vulture.com)
• “Burt Bacharach Remembers Writing Songs at the Brill Building” (3/25/2014, vulture.com)
• Folk Music links (musc125)

Beatles

• Beatles LP album covers; on NME
• Discography
• Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s LP cover with interactive map of characters
• Frank Zappa’s We’re Only in it for the Money LP cover parody of Sgt. Pepper’s
• “Hard Day’s Night” first chord
• Live in Melbourne, 6/17/1964
• The Making of Sgt. Pepper’s (documentary)
• White album on wikipedia (1968)

Motown

• James Jamerson’s bass line, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”

Girl Groups

• 1960s Girl Groups

1960

• Operation Abolition (SF student protest at HUAC hearings; 21:00)
• Operation Correction (ACLU response to Operation Abolition)
• “Walk Don’t Run,” The Ventures (American Bandstand, 8/27/1960)

1961

• The Continentals (Ted Mack Amateur Hour, 7/9/1961)

1963

• March on Washington
  • Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (w/Len Chandler)
  • Peter, Paul, and Mary (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer”)
  • Mahalia Jackson (“How I Got Over”)

1964

• The T.A.M.I. Show (Wikipedia), on youtube
• The Beatles on Ed Sullivan Show (1st appearance, Feb. 9, 1964): “All My Loving,” “Til There Was You,” “She Loves You,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”
• Muddy Waters on the Rolling Stones, Beatles and others (“Muddy Waters: The Blues Had A Baby… And They Called It Rock ‘N’ Roll,” Charles Shaar Murray, 1977)
• Sam Cooke
  • “50 Years Ago Tonight: Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston, co-starring malcolm X and Sam Cooke” (2/25/2014, The Nation; dead link)
  • Cassius Clay introducing Sam Cooke after win over Sonny Liston (2/25/1964)
  • singing with Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali (Feb. 1964)
  • “Blowin’ in the Wind“
• Decision in the Streets (Berkeley Free Speech Movement)

1965

• British Invasion 1965: 7 of the Top 10 singles on the Billboard chart were from the UK (May 1, 1965)
• “Weird Al” Yankovic, “Bob” (2003), parody of  Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues“
• Ski Party (w/James Brown)
• Jimi Hendrix
  • First tv appearance, with Buddy and Stacy

1966

• Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” studio footage

1967

• Jimi Hendrix
  • Jimi Hendrix, The Who at the Beat Club
  • Live in Chelmsford, England (early 1967?)
  • Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, “Wild Thing“
• Grace Slick vocal track from “White Rabbit“
• “The Negative Dialectics of the Summer of Love: Frank Zappa’s We’re Only In It for the Money” (Michael J. Kramer, 8/2/2017)
• Velvet Underground
  • Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (PBS, American Masters)

1968

• “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” by James Brown at #1 r&b and #10 pop (Oct. 18, 1968, pp. 47, 78)

1969

• David Bowie, “Space Oddity”: original video from 1969; live 1970; remake from 1972; live 1973
• Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) playing guitar on tv in 1958 (wrong year listed on youtube)
• Woodstock
  • Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner”
    • on the Dick Cavett show talking about the Star Spangled Banner
  • Santana, “Soul Sacrifice“
  • Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock” lyrics, and 1973 article on Max Yasgur
  • New York Times, August 17, 1969 (Wesleyan access only)
• Stonewall Inn riots, June 28, 1969 (wikipedia)
• Stonewall and Beyond (Columbia U. exhibit)

Miscellaneous

• Rolling Stones with Al Franken (1982)
• “How Rock Festivals Helped Change America,” Bill Mankin 2012 (Like The Dew: A Journal of Southern Culture and Politics)
• SNL: James Brown (W/Kevin Hart)
• James Brown’s drummers: Clyde Stubblefield, John “Jabo” Starks; “Cold Sweat,” “Funky Drummer” (Clyde Stubblefield); 22 rappers who sampled (XXL mag, 8/1/2014)
• Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture (2016)
• “The Gay Architects of Classic Rock” (Jim Farber, NYT, 10/17/2017