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Bessie Smith

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Era: Classic Blues
Significance: “Empress of the Blues”, sung “St Louis Blues”

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Blind Lemon Jefferson

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Era: Country Blues
Significance: First country blues star, sung “That Black Snake Moan”

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Carter Family

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Era: Early Country Music
Significance: Adapted old Anglo-American folk songs

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Charley Patton

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Era: Country Blues, Mississippi Delta Blues
Significance: Sang “Tom Rushen Blues”

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Gertrude “Ma” Rainey

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Era: Classic Blues
Significance: “Mother of the Blues”

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Jimmie Rodgers

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Era: Early Country Music
Significance: Sung “Blue Yodel No. 2”, image of footloose wanderer

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Mamie Smith

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Era: Race records
Significance: A black vaudeville performer, her discovery prompted the promotion of race records

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Robert Johnson

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Era: Country Blues/Delta Blues
Significance: Rumored to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads to play guitar

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William Christopher Handy

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Era: Classic Blues
Significance: The most influential classic blues composer

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Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie

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Era: Great Depression
Significance: Sung “This Land is Your Land”, closely associated with plight of American workers

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Benny Goodman

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Era: Swing
Significance: Celebrity swing bandleader, “The King of Swing”

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Duke Ellington

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Era: Swing (and earlier, Jazz)
Significance: Adapted to changes in the swing era, recorded “Caravan”

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Fletcher Henderson

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Era: Swing
Significance: Bandleader, credited with inspiring the rise of swing

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Glenn Miller

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Era: Swing
Significance: The superstar of swing, his orchestra recorded “In the Mood”

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Roy Claxton Acuff

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Era: Swing
Significance: Most popular hillbilly singer of the swing era.

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Gene Autry

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Era: Swing
Significance: The first successful “singing cowboy”

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Bob Wills

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Era: Swing
Significance: Seminal figure in the popularization of “western swing” (country-influenced swing)

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William “Count” Basie

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Era: Swing (Kansas City Swing)
Significance: Led the swing big band most closely associated with blues tradition

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Xavier Cugat

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Era: Swing
Significance: Bandleader who did the most to popularize Latin music during the swing era

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John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie

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Era: Swing
Significance: Afro-Cuban jazz trumpeter

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Francisco Raul Gutierrez “Machito” Grillo

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Era: Swing
Significance: Bandleader who started a new jazz/Afro-Cuban band

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Frank Sinatra

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Era: Post-war
Significance: Postwar crooner, and one of the first big-band singers to take advantage of changes in music business

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Nat “King” Cole

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Era: Post-war
Significance: An African-America, the greatest postwar crooner

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Pete Seeger

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Era: Post-war
Significance: Political activist, banjo player, and irban folk singer; led the Weavers

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Damaso Perez Prado
Era: Post-war Significance: Did the most to popularize the post-war "mambo" Latin music craze
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Louis Jordan
Era: Post-war Significance: Leader of the Tympany Five, the most successful jump blues band
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McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield
Era: Post-war Significance: Created the Chicago electric blues sound
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Willie Dixon
Era: Post-war Significance: Composed "Hoochie Coochie Man", performed by Muddy Waters
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Ruth Brown
Era: Post-war Significance: Influential female R&B singer, sung "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean"
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Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
Era: Post-war Significance: Influential female R&B singer, sung "Hound Dog"
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Patti Page
Era: Post-war Significance: Country musician, sold more records than any other female singer of her era
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Bill Monroe
Era: Post-war Significance: The pioneer of bluegrass music
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Hank Williams
Era: Post-war Significance: Most significant post-war country musician
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Big Joe Turner
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Originally sung "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" in the jump blues style
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Bill Hayley and the Comets
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Covered "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" by Big Joe Turner; in a western swing style
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Elvis Presley
Era: Rock n roll Significance: The biggest star of the rock n roll era and all of American pop music
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Herman "Little Junior" Parker
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Led the band "Little Junior's Blue Flames", which recorded "Mystery Train"; later covered by Elvis
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Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry
Era: Rock n roll Significance: The first big rock n roll star, burst onto the scene with "Maybellene"
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Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
Era: Rock n roll Significance: His sound & visual performance characteristics influenced later performers
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Antoine "Fats" Domino
Era: Rock n roll Significance: R&B singers who found rock n roll success with "Aint It a Shame"
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Professor Longhair
Era: Rock n roll Significance: R&B pianist, influenced Fats Domino
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Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Clean-cut presence, recorded "That'll Be the Day"
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Wanda Jackson
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Most influential pioneering rock n roll woman
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Ritchie Valens
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Most popular musician from Los Angeles Latin rock n roll scene
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The Coasters
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Performed "Charlie Brown", written by songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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Johnny Mathis
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Found success with Tin Pan Alley songs in the rock n roll era
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The Kingston Trio
Era: Rock n roll Significance: Most popular folk group in rock n roll era
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The Beatles
Era: British Invasion, 1960s Significance: Led the "British Invasion" of bands into American pop music
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The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson)
Era: 1960s Significance: Bestselling American group of the 60s
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The Supremes
Era: 1960s, Motown Significance: Sung "You Can't Hurry Love"
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The Temptations
Era: 1960s, Motown Significance: Sung "My Girl"
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Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria
Era: 1960s Significance: Performed the biggest bugalu (Latin soul) hit, "Watermelon Man"
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Ray Barretto
Era: 1960s Significance: Performed the bugalu (Latin soul) hit "El Watisu"
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Joao Gilberto
Era: 1960s Significance: Credited with initiating the Brazilian bossa nova genre
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Stan Getz
Era: 1960s Significance: Collaborated with Joao Gilberto in the bossa nova genre
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Herb Alpert
Era: 1960s Significance: Led the Tiajuana brass, major Mexican pop influence in the 60s
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Patsy Cline
Era: 1960s Significance: Pioneered the "countrypolitan" Nashville sound
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Ray Charles
Era: 1960s Significance: Pioneered "soul music"
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Sam Cooke
Era: 1960s Significance: "The King of Soul", brought spiritual perspective to pop
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James Brown
Era: 1960s Significance: The "Godfather of Soul", sung "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"
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Aretha Franklin
Era: 1960s Significance: "Lady Soul", sung "Respect", female empowerment
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Bob Dylan
Era: 1960s Significance: Urban Folk musician, sung "Like a Rolling Stone"
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Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick)
Era: 1960s Significance: The most important female musician and band in the San Francisco alt rock scene
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Janis Joplin
Era: 1960s Significance: Competed with Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick as queen of the San Francisco rock scene
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Jerry Garcia
Era: 1960s Significance: Permanent member of Grateful Dead
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The Doors
Era: 1960s Significance: Most controversial rock band of the era
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Jimi Hendrix
Era: 1960s Significance: Most influential guitarist of the rock era
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Eric Clapton
Era: 1960s Significance: Most influential British guitarist of the era, played in Cream
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Ralph Peer
Era: Classic blues Significance: Talent scout, coined term "race records"
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John Hammond
Era: Swing & beyond Significance: Influential Jazz promoter in the Swing era (and beyond)
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Alan Freed
Era: 1950s Significance: Disc Jockey, coined the term "Rock n Roll"
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Milt Gabler
Era: 1950s Significance: Record producer, worked with Louis Jordan (Tympany Five, jump blues) to record string of hits
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Jerry Leiber
Era: 1960s Significance: Worked with Mike Stoller as a hit rock n roll songwriting team.
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Mike Stoller
Era: 1960s Significance: Worked with Jerry Leiber as a hit rock n roll songwriting team.
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Dick Clark
Era: 1960s Significance: Host of American Bandstand
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Phil Spector
Era: 1960s Significance: Founded Philles Records.
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Berry Gordy Jr.
Era: 1960s, Motown Significance: Created Motown Records (in Detroit)

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