Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

John and Billy Valentine recorded singles for Bridge and A&M in the first ’80s. These were effectively sung, reflecting Billy’s jazz history using the Young-Holt Unlimited trio as well as the duo’s looks within the touring business from the Wiz, but non-e of these generated enough impetus to online them …

Manchester’s A II Z (called after street-finder atlases, not, seeing that charged by way of a couple of ignorant troublemakers within the press, a Nazi publication) was the beneficiary of very fortuitous timing, getting formed by brothers Dave (vocals) and Gary Owens (electric guitar), Cam Campbell (bass), and Karl Reti …

This female quartet was found out by Gwen Gordy Fuqua while they performed within their native Pasadena, CA, throughout a Bicentennial show. The group was made up of lead vocalist Vernessa Mitchell, her sister Barbara Mitchell, Linda Howard, and Michelle Martin. (The Mitchell sisters had been performers, Howard and Martin …

He didn’t achieve the popularity that his older sibling John enjoyed, but Jimmy Lydon was section of his personal group for a brief period during the past due ’70s and early ’80s, 4 End up being 2. Just like the early produces of his brother’s second main band, Public Picture …

Vocalist/songwriter Jonathan Richman is sufficiently well-established like a single artist, and it’s really easy to forget the undeniable fact that the moniker sometimes useful for his support music group, the Modern Enthusiasts, was once linked to a coherent band of which Richman was an associate. The Boston-based group the present …

Disco’s most soulful vocal group began within the ’60s because the Volcanos, and were also known as the Moods. Gene Beliefs was the initial business lead vocalist, with Earl Little, Jimmy Ellis, guitarist Dennis Harris, keyboardist Ron Kersey, organist John Hart, bassist Stanley Wade, and drummer Michael Thomas. But by …

Manal certainly are a Buenos Aries power trio much like Almendra but with a grittier blues-rock strategy and so are often credited because the initial Argentina group to sing blues in Spanish. They released a self-titled record in 1970 and implemented it another year with Un León. The group, Javier …

Paul Asgeirson (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Steve Marian (acoustic guitar, vocals) formed the Teddy Males in the past due ’70s with bassist Steve Ostick, drummer Julian Bernas and key pad participant George Marian. The Winnipeg-based music group authorized with WEA and documented their debut, On Air flow, in 1980.

Among the pivotal groupings to emerge from the Liverpool neo-psychedelia community through the later ’70s, the Teardrop Explodes was a display for Julian Deal, a notoriously eccentric amount whose unfashionable like of Krautrock and hallucinogenic medications place him distinctly in addition to the prevailing punk mentality from the period. Cope …

Under the management of bassist Gordon Edwards, some of the most prolific studio room players around teamed together to create an all-star tempo section that on the part-time basis operated as an unbiased group. Back again around 1967, Edwards come up with the Encyclopedia of Spirit and through the following …