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The 1950s American Rock’n’Roll quiz is about the golden age of rock’n’roll across the 1950s. The first rock’n’roll record (see question 6) is genarally considered come in 1951. Rock’n’roll found commercial success in 1955 (see question 15) and started its decline in 1957 (see question 20) when Little Richard renounced rock’n’roll.
1.Who recorded Maybellene at his first Sun recording session in 1955?
2. Who was the producer and owner of the legendary Sun Studios?
3. What was Elvis Presley’s first movie, when he returned from the US Army in March 1960?
4. What are the first names of the two Everly Brothers?
5. What was the name of Bill Haley’s backing group before they became His Comets?
6. Generally considered to be the first rock’n’roll record. What was the name of the single recorded by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats in 1951?
7. Who comprised the Million Dollar Quartet, when they recorded their legendary jam session at Sun Studios on 4 December 1956?
8. Who were the two singers who died alongside Buddy Holly, when their light plane crashed on 3 February 1959?
9. What was the name of Jerry Lee Lewis’s 13-year-old wife who accompanied him on his ill-fated British tour in 1958?
10. Which UK country did Elvis Presley stop off in, on his way back to America. Following his discharge from the US Army in Germany?
11. What was the nickname used by DJ Alan Freed at the beginning of his career?
12. Elvis Presley released That’s All Right as his first Sun single in July 1954. Who wrote and recorded the original version in 1946?
13. Who released the original version of Rock Around the Clock, a hit for Bill Haley and His Comets in 1955?
14. The title of Buddy Holly and the Cricket’s hit That’ll Be the Day was inspired by a line spoken in which John Wayne movie?
15. Rock’n’Roll was kick-started around the world after it was played during the opening credits of which 1955 Glen Ford movie?
16. Which American DJ is accredited with coining the phrase “rock’n’roll”?
17. Considered to be the first million dollar deal, which rock’n’roll duo signed with Warner Brothers in 1960?
18. Who was Buddy Holly’s manager? He also managed the Crickets in a separate deal.
19. Which rock’n’roll legend won a talent competition for a record deal with RCA in 1951? However, commercial success eluded him until after he signed with Speciality in 1955.
20. Which country was Little Richard touring in 1957, when he discovered religion and renounced rock’n’roll?
