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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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1965: The Lovin Spoonful

Orb — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:35:28 +0000

Biography The Lovin’ Spoonful is an American rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of “Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry”, prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name “Lovin’ Spoonful” […]

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1977: The Buggles

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:32:36 +0000

Biography The Buggles were a British New Wave duo consisting of Trevor Horn (vocals, bass guitar, guitar) and Geoff Downes (keyboards, synthesizers, electric piano, piano, drums, percussion, backing vocals). They are best known for their 1979 debut single “Video Killed the Radio Star” that was No. 1 on the singles charts of sixteen countries. Its […]

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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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1964: The Amboy Dukes

Orb — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 03:33:52 +0000

Biography The Amboy Dukes was an American rock music band of the late 1960s and early 1970s from Detroit, Michigan, best remembered for their one hit single “Journey to the Center of the Mind.” The band’s name comes from the title of a novel by Irving Shulman about a Jewish street gang of the […]

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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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1969: Motherlode

Orb — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:52:39 +0000

Biography As an offshoot of the massive nine-piece Grant Smith and the Power, the four original members of Motherlode (guitarist Ken Marco, saxophonist Steve Kennedy, keyboardist William “Smitty” Smith, and Wayne Stone on drums) split the funky corridors of Toronto and its teeming Yonge Street strip for relatively staid London, Ontario. There, the band got […]

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1978: The Knack

Orb — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:34:32 +0000

Biography 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 dross that littered the Sunset Strip. Signing with Capitol after a feeding frenzy of label offers, […]

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