TRIVIA ANSWERS

Posted by Blues Society of Western Pennsylvania - Maria K Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:07 AM
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Answer to Trivia #1


Correct Answer: Les Paul…Recently deceased, his name was iconic and is known by aspiring guitar players worldwide. The Les Paul guitar has been the cornerstone of a lot of great music that has been made in the last fifty years. Les Paul experimented with guitar amplification for years before designing “The Log” in 1941. This creation was a 4-by-4 piece of wood strung with steel strings. Electric guitars became popular in the 1940’s. Paul later added wings to his guitar to give it the traditional guitar shape. Leo Fender’s Broadcaster was the first mass-produced solid body electric guitar on the market in the 1940’s. Gibson solicited Paul to create a prototype for a guitar. Production of the Les Paul guitar began in 1952. The Les Paul series became one of the most widely used guitars in the music industry. In 2005, Christie’s auction house sold a 1955 Gibson Les Paul for $45,000.
Les Paul also developed technology that would become the hallmark of rock and pop recordings, from multitrack recordings that allowed for layers and layers of “overdubs” to guitar reverb and various other sound effects. The Gibson Guitar Company mass-produced Paul’s original invention. Gibson ‘s CEO, Henry Juskiewiez stated, “He was truly the cornerstone of popular music. He was a futurist, and unlike some futurists who write about it and predict things, he was the guy who actually did things.”
~excerpts from an article by Nekesa Mumbi Moody, AP Music Writer

Answer to Trivia #2

Correct answer: a.) In the late 1956 Muddy'y band backed singer Ann Cole, who was part of the bill on a tour of the South. He was especially taken with one song she did (properly credited to Preston Foster) called "Go My Mojo Working (But It Just Won't Work on You)" and rushed to record it upon his return to Chicago. Cole, backed by the Suburbans, also cut a version that came out just ahead of the Waters hit. Obviously it was Muddy's take that would win out in the musical marketplace; "Mojo" went on to become his signature tune. At the time Cole was considered an up-and-coming R&B vocalist: she went on to make numerous recordings. Her only number to dent the pop charts came with "Don't Stop the Wedding," a 1962 answer song to Etta James' "Stop the Wedding."
`Cary Wofson