Billboard Hot 100 – Music AmneZia

1968: Bread

Orb — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:33:06 +0000

Biography Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock. The band consisted of David Gates (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion), Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion), […]

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1994: Train

Orb — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:59:13 +0000

Biography Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco. The band currently consists of a core trio of Pat Monahan (vocals), Jimmy Stafford (guitar), and Scott Underwood (drums). With a lineup that included original members Monahan, Stafford, Underwood, Rob Hotchkiss, and Charlie Colin, the band achieved mainstream success with their debut album, […]

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1962: Terry Jacks

Orb — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 02:59:05 +0000

Biography Terrence Ross “Terry” Jacks (born March 29, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist, best known for his chart-topping 1974 hit song “Seasons in the Sun”. Early life Terry Jacks was born and raised in Winnipeg. His family relocated to Vancouver in the early 1960s. Jacks took up guitar […]

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1969: Crabby Appleton

Orb — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:30:52 +0000

Biography Crabby Appleton was an American rock band in the early 1970s. Fronted by singer-songwriter Michael Fennelly, they scored a Top 40 hit with their first single, “Go Back.” Though nearly everyone in the group was from a Los Angeles, California based band called Stonehenge, the group’s line-up was revamped with the introduction of […]

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1957: The Poni-Tails

Orb — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:00:12 +0000

Biography The Poni-Tails were an American girl group from Lyndhurst, Ohio. Formed in a suburb of Cleveland, the Poni-Tails – Toni Cistone, Karen Topinka and Patti McCabe – started singing at Brush High School, which they all attended. Tom Ilius, a music publisher, had them signed to local record label Point Records, who released […]

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1964: The Jaggerz

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:54:29 +0000

Biography The Jaggerz are a pop/rock band from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. They are a one-hit wonder, their only major success being the single “The Rapper”. Released on the Kama Sutra label, “The Rapper” was #2 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in March 1970, and sold over one million copies with the […]

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1967: Frijid Pink

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:17:46 +0000

Biography Detroit hard rockers Frijid Pink formed in 1967, originally comprised of singer Thomas Beaudry (stage name Kelly Green), guitarist Gary Ray Thompson, bassist Tom Harris, keyboardist Larry Zelanka, and drummer Richard Stevers. After two years of relentless touring throughout the southeast Michigan area, the group — substituting Harris with Beaudry on bass — signed […]

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1966: The Original Caste

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:01:29 +0000

Biography Songwriter and guitarist Bruce Innes formed the group in Calgary, Alberta in 1966. Initially, Bruce Innes, Graham Bruce and Bliss Mackie worked as a trio and Dixie Lee (Stone) Innes joined the group in 1967, contributing rich vocals. At that time, Dixie Lee Stone was a secretary at Pacific Petroleum in Calgary and she […]

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1956: The Shells

Orb — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:05:27 +0000

Biography The Shells — led by Nate Bouknight (aka “Little Nat”) — scored with a Top 30 hit with “Baby Oh Baby,” charting for the tiny Johnson label in 1957. The group — Bouknight, Randy “Shade Alston (tenor), Bobby Nurse (tenor), Danny Small (bass), and Gus Geter(baritone) — continued to wax impressive 45s into the early […]

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1960: The Hollies

Orb — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:07:37 +0000

Biography 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 1960s; the 9th highest of any artist of the decade) and into the mid 1970s. […]

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1955: The De John Sisters

Orb — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:48:21 +0000

Biography 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 their parents’ store after school, but while working at the club […]

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1955: The Bonnie Sisters

Orb — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:11:15 +0000

Biography The Bonnie Sisters were an American pop group from New York. The three members were all nurses at Bellevue Hospital. After hearing The DeJohn Sisters on the radio, they began singing together at work, calling themselves The Belle Aimes initially. After performing on Arthur Godfrey‘s television show, they were signed by Mickey Baker to Rainbow Records and changed their name to […]

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1953: The Penguins

Orb — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:37:46 +0000

Biography The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)“, which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts. The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but […]

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