Tag Archives: 1960s – 1970s

Alternately referred to as the TSU Tornadoes and, more regularly, the TSU Toronadoes, this frequently instrumental soul/funk combo was most widely known for supplying the backing in Archie Bell & the Drells’ much-imitated dance smash “SHRINK.” The group was produced at Tx Southern School (hence the very first section of …

Of all performers who passed through the cult-filled sites from the Vertigo label through the early ’70s, couple of have attracted more attention than Ramases. His 1st recording for the label, Space Hymns, was documented using the nascent 10cc as support musicians, but a lot more significantly, it represents perhaps …

For an organization that never produced the very best 40, and arrived almost too past due to exploit the audio they produced, Reparata & the Delrons have proved amazingly durable. Their recording haunted utilized record bins for a long time, and 18 of the songs slice for World Performers (a …

Best remembered for his or her 1964 smash “Breads and Butter,” Nashville pop vocal trio the Newbeats teamed singer Larry Henley with brothers Dean and Tag Mathis. The Mathises previously performed because the duo Dean & Tag, notching a strike in 1959 using the solitary “SIMPLY TELL HIM No”; 3 …

There is no doubting Neil Christian’s efforts towards the formative times of British rock and roll. His organizations included, at numerous times, Jimmy Web page, Ritchie Blackmore, Nicky Hopkins, Albert Lee, and Mick Abrahams. Like a vocalist and recording designer, though, he was distinctly missing, with a fairly wimpy and …

This UK band was formed by former Fairport Convention singer/guitarist Iain Matthews (b. Ian Matthew McDonald, 16 June 1946, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, Britain), and was called after his 1969 debut for MCA Information. Comprising Matthews, Tag Griffiths (acoustic guitar), Carl Barnwell (acoustic guitar), Gordon Huntley (pedal metal acoustic guitar), Andy Leigh …

Vocalist/songwriter Norma Tanega is well known limited to her one strike, the novelty-tinged “Walkin’ My Kitty Named Pet dog,” which produced amount 22 in early 1966. There is hook folk-rock experience to the quantity, using its melancholy harmonica and back-up harmonies, yet it had been blended with some NY pop-soul …

Michael Cuscuna continues to be among the essential figures within the reissue increase from the 1980s and 90s. When he creates a reissue, the emphasis is certainly on coherent product packaging, the reissuance of comprehensive periods and consistent top quality. Cuscuna performed drums, saxophone and flute in early stages but …

Banchee released a few albums of psychedelic hard rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s whose ebullience couldn’t compensate for too little concentrate; incongruity between Crosby, Stills & Nash-styled harmonies and hard rock and roll guitars; and, most importantly, an lack of significant songwriting, as well as riffs. Both …

Born within the Calton area in Glasgow, Matt McGinn lived along with his parents and eight siblings in cramped quarters. Although yearning to visit Protestant school along with his close friends in his formative years, his parents elevated McGinn Catholic. At age 12, after becoming caught breaking right into a …