What female gospel singer, who recorded originally for Apollo Records, sang on “Evenings With Dorsey” and was known for songs like “God’s Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares” and “Movin’ On Up.” 

Who designed the first commercially successful solid body guitar in 1946 and founded the company that mass produced these guitars? 

The need for a lobbying group to monitor legislation concerning the recording industry, compile statistics on record industry sales as well as the problems of free records to disk jockeys, payola to radio, technical requirements for records and the discounting of records led to the formation of what trade association and lobbying group in 1951? 

What manufacturer provided the earliest tape machines for recording studios and radio stations and dominated the early tape technology? 

What Nashville publishing company signed Hank Williams as a songwriter? 

What was “Strange Fruit?” 

Who wrote “White Christmas,” “God Bless America,” “Always” and “Dancing Cheek to Cheek?” 

What company sold Gene Autry records and the “Round-Up” guitar, ultimately providing the guitar to middle America and making it an important part of musical history later in the 20th century?

What performing rights organization was formed by ASCAP executive Paul Heinke to license European songs? 

What singing star emerged in 1943 as a solo act after working with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras and became a “bobby sox” idol with his debut hit “All or Nothing at All.”