TV+and+Music

 **TV and Music**  __


 * Elvis Presley** __

Elvis Presley was a very good rocker. He became the king of rock n' roll. He was a white man who sand like a black. He had tremendous natural talent and a lot of spunk. He was very successful, no other American musician could touch him. He was very polite and lonely. He didn't smoke or drink but still some parents and adults found his performances dangerous. What made adults found upsetting was in the way that he danced, they had never seen anything like it. American's youth fell in love with Elvis. Elvis liked making money considering that he made a lot of it. He didn't really know how to handle the celebrity. Eventually this lead to him becoming beyond recognition. He began drinking, overeating and taking prescription drugs that doctors gave him. In 1977, he died from a drug overdose after many years of stress.

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 __**Marilyn Monroe**__

Marilyn Monroe was considered the sex goddess of the 1950's and 1960's. She took part in movies and modeling. A lot of people, men especially, liked her.

[|More Information] __**I Love Lucy**__

In the 1950s, //I Love Lucy// was the number one TV show. But, it showed the reality of women in the 1950s, and how they were viewed in society. Most women stayed at home and didn't work, and in //I Love Lucy// the producers made women seem flirtatious. silly, and all about having fun. In real life, women were taking a stand and wanted to be taken seriously in the working life of America.

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 __**Beatles**__

The Beatles had a very good message. They were very charming. The Beatles consisted of four English men who were very intense and electric. They came to the U.S. to make money but never realized what a big heart-throb they were going to be. They admired Bob Dylan and Dylan also admired them. Beatles became the most important popular musicians of their time. They liked black music so there music was a cross between black music and what they had been brought up listening to. Everyone loved the Beatles.

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__**Bob Dylan**__

Bob Dylan became the most influential musician of the Vietnam era. He was against war and for civil rights. His songs also became theme songs in counterculture and wrote songs with messages about all of the changes that were occurring.

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__**Billy Holiday**__

Billie Holiday a black woman who was discovered by John Henry Hammond Sr. She was an incredible jazz singer. Holiday joined Benny Goodman and they made records together. Teddy Wilson also joined the Benny Goodman Trio. It was a mix of black and white musicians so the music was a mixture of white folk and country music, and black blues, jazz, and gospel.

[|More Information] __**John Henry Hammond Sr.**__

John Hammond Sr. helped start rock and roll. He learned to love music as a child and was very wealthy. He went around looking for black talent to hear music that had African ancestry. He discovered Billie Holiday, many other fantastic black musicians, and some white ones too. In reality, the color of skin didn't matter.

[|More Information] __**Aretha Franklin**__

Aretha Franklin was superstar who took gospel and the blues and merged them together to form soul music. Her talent was extraordinary and many liked her new take on music.

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