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Pop songwriter Charlie Singleton (or Charles) is most beneficial known for co-writing “Strangers in the night time,” the number-one strike that revitalized Frank Sinatra’s profession in 1966. Never to end up being baffled with another songwriter from the same name (who frequently partnered with Rose Marie McCoy), this Charlie Singleton …

The Invaders were a sextet from Charlottesville, VA comprising Steve Drumheller (drums, vocals), Aivars Osvalds (organ), Bobby Pollock (saxophone, vocals), Steve Pollock (guitar, vocals), Gilbert Roberts (bass), and Harold Roberts (trumpet, drums, harmonica). They performed the faculty and senior high school dance circuit around Virginia and NEW YORK, focusing on …

Not to end up being confused along with his American-born guitarist namesake, Liverpool-based drummer Joe Walsh was an associate of two from the even more tenacious Merseybeat rings of the first ’60s, Lee Curtis & the All-Stars and Ian & the Zodiacs, both which found their biggest achievement in Germany. …

The Highlighters are celebrated in deep funk collectors’ circles because of their 1969 underground classic “The Funky 16 Sides.” Produced at Indianapolis’ Crispus Attucks SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in 1963, the initial lineup of saxophonist Cliff Palmer, trumpeter Clifford Ratliff, organist Richard “Boola” Ball, bassist Richard Corbin, and drummer Adam “Porkchop” …

Despite their name, the brand new Wave weren’t some trend-hopping band from the past due ’70s or early ’80s, but a soft rock and roll sunshine pop duo from the past due ’60s. Made up of vocalist/songwriters Tommy Andre and Reid Ruler, they released an obscure, self-titled recording around the …

Vocalist, guitarist, and celebrity Hermione Fatheringale used David Bowie for some time in Feathers, a multi-media folk-rock group that also included guitarist John Hutchinson, in past due 1968 and early 1969. She was also in Turquoise, an identical and intensely short-lived trio, with Bowie and Tony Hill. Feathers didn’t release …

New Ulm, MN, garage area outfit the Fabulous Depressions shaped in 1964 — guitarist Phil Groebner, bassist Jim Dauer, organist Peter Kitzberger, and drummer John Tretault (the second option most of 11 years of age first) completed the initial lineup, which progressed through some short-lived titles including Wholly Moses, Mind …

THE BRAND NEW Creation were initially heard by hardly any people, and once and for all reason. Released in 1970, their record Troubled was among countless rock and roll “vanity” albums self-pressed through the psychedelic period. Just 100 copies had been produced, none marketed commercially, and it had been only …

The Feelings were a Jamaican vocal tranquility quartet closely linked with similar groups the Techniques as well as the Uniques. The nascent edition of the Feelings included performers Cornel Campbell, Jimmy Riley, Buster Riley, and Bobby (Aaron) Davis, however the make-up of the group was pretty fluid. They have scored …

The Second Release, the duo of Bruce Winther and Dick Winther, made a unitary on the neighborhood Minnesota label Scotty in 1967, “To Keep You”/”Life Is….” “To Preserve You” was a forgettable, innocuous pop-rock tune with an interval 1967 AM pop creation, and a track of folk-rock. Jim Kane (bass) …