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Southern Soul Music

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Introduction:
"Soul music recorded below the Mason-Dixon line."


1. "Rolling Stone" magazine called this Stax Records house band, "The greatest and tightest backing band of all time".
    The Funk Brothers
    Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
    The Hodges Brothers
    Booker T. and the MGs


2. What Jackson, Mississippi company has been dubbed "The Last Soul Company"?
    Ace Records
    601 Records
    Trumpet Records
    Malaco Records


3. Legendary tunesmith Dan Penn co-wrote the classic "Dark End of the Street" with this American Records founder. Who is he?
    Jim Stewart
    Chips Moman
    Al Bell
    Willie Mitchell


4. Who is known as The Last Great Soul Singer?
    Tyrone Davis
    Floyd Taylor
    Al Green
    Johnnie Taylor


5. Before he scored the smash hit "Knock On Wood", what singer was signed to Stax as a songwriter penning tunes for Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, and Wilson Pickett?
    Mack Rice
    Eddie Floyd
    Sam Moore
    Frederick Knight


6. Distributed by Stax in the Seventies, KoKo Records' biggest hit, by far, was "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Wanna Be Right)". Who sang that classic?
    James Ingram
    Luther Ingram
    Syl Johnson
    William Bell


7. What was the song Otis Redding recorded at Stax that earned him a recording contract with the company and would become his first hit?
    I've Been Loving You Too Long
    Hard to Handle
    Pain in My Heart
    These Arms of Mine


8. Who was the Otis Redding protoge' that became a one hit wonder with "Sweet Soul Music"?
    Arthur Conley
    William Bell
    Arthur Alexander
    Willie Clayton


9. Dan Penn has co-written a lot of Soul standards. A frequent collaborator of his was keyboardist Spooner Oldham. What other keyboardist has he shared several successes with?
    Marvell Thomas
    Booker T. Jones
    Carson Whitsett
    Clayton Ivey


10. What Soul superstar replaced the hugely influential Sam Cooke, with the Gospel outfit The Soul Stirrers?
    R.H. Harris
    Sam Moore
    Little Johnny Taylor
    Johnnie Taylor


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