Biography Genre(s) Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference The Hollywood Argyles were a quickie act thrown together by producers Kim Fowley and Gary Paxton, featuring Sandy Nelson. Fowley made his first recordings with drummer Sandy Nelson during the late ’50s and had already produced a number of […]
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Biography Genre(s) Peak Date Years (together) Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference Best-known for his 1970 hit “Spirit in the Sky,” singer/songwriter Norman Greenbaum was born November 20, 1942, in Malden, MA. He began his musical career while a student at Boston University, playing area coffeehouses before relocating to the West Coast […]
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Biography AKA Genre(s) Origin Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference The Hollies are an English rock group known for their pioneering and distinctive three part vocal harmony style. The Hollies became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 weeks on the UK singles charts during the […]
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Biography AKA Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference Marmalade was a Scottish pop rock group from the east end of Glasgow, originally formed in 1961 as the Gaylords, and then later billed as Dean Ford and the Gaylords. In 1966 they changed the group name to the […]
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Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference Forming in Los Angeles in the late ’70s, the Knack (Doug Fieger, vocals/guitar; Berton Averre, lead guitar; Prescott Niles, bass; and Bruce Gary, drums) were neither punk nor rock, but pure simple pop, standing out among the musical […]
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Biography AKA Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference Most Americans first heard of Lulu when she soared to the top of the charts with the pop ballad “To Sir with Love,” the theme to the film of the same name, in 1967. Actually, the Scottish […]
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Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference Pub rock and R&B-influenced Moving Pictures are best remembered for their power ballad “What About Me?,” which shot the band to number one in Australia in 1982. Formed by singer Alex Smith and writer Gary Frost, they signed […]
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Biography AKA Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Also Member of Reference The one-hit wonder behind the disco novelty smash “Kung Fu Fighting,” Carl Douglas was also the first Jamaican-born artist to score a number one single in the United States. Douglas was raised in both California and Jamaica, and eventually moved […]
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Biography AKA Genre(s) Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference In looking back over the history of rock & roll, the sad fact remains that very few of its original practitioners stayed true to its original big beat vision. Some made a handful of brilliant sides before broader horizons — television or […]
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Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference One-hit wonders Wild Cherry was led by Rob Parissi (singer, guitarist, songwriter), who originally formed the group in 1970. Influenced by the likes of the Yardbirds and Sly & the Family Stone (and named after a flavor of cough drops), the […]
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Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The DeJohn Sisters were an American vocal duo, Julie and Dux DeJohn (born DiGiovanni). They were born in Chester, Pennsylvania, which had been the hometown of an earlier vocal group, The Four Aces. They were the daughters of a dry cleaner and worked in […]
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Biography Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference Spirit was a highly regarded rock band that achieved modest commercial success, charting 11 albums in the U.S. between 1968 and 1977. Founded in Los Angeles in 1967 by musicians who had a mixture of rock, pop, folk, blues, classical, […]
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Biography AKA Genre(s) Origin Peak Date Years (together) Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference The Hollywood Flames were an American R&B vocal group in the 1950s, best known for their hit, “Buzz Buzz Buzz“. They formed as The Flames in 1949, in Watts, Los Angeles, at a talent show where members of various […]
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Biography Origin Genre(s) Members Years (together) Peak Date Discography Song Highlights Labels Also Member of Reference Videos (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs including “Taxi,” “W*O*L*D,” “Flowers Are Red,” and the No. 1 hit “Cat’s in the Cradle.” Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who […]
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Biography Genre(s) Origin Members Discography Song Highlights Videos Labels Reference Pop Rock Roots Acoustic Folk World Country 1962 Banjo, Guitar – Art Podell Bass – Jimmy Bond Vocals, Guitar – Barry Kane, Barry McGuire Here & Now A1 Another Man A2 Summer‘s Over A3 Gold Wedding Ring A4 Drunken Sailor A5 Far Side Of The Hill A6 Fireball Mail B1 Bull ‘Gine Run B2 Land […]
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