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Village

Town was formed by Pete Bardens in the wake from the break-up of Shotgun Express in 1967. The trio’s sound was within the jazzy part of progressive rock and roll, which may clarify why these were selected to open up for Chicago at Royal Albert Hall in 1969. They slice …

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Brian Barley

Brian Barley was a Canadian tenor sax participant who mixed an improvisational jazz visual with components of contemporary composition not much taken off Stravinsky or Bartók. Unfortunately, Barley’s profession was short-lived — he passed on from a serious epileptic seizure in 1971. He was simply 28 years of age.

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Percy & the Teardrops

Though Percy & the Teardrops documented only 1 album, 1980’s Almost Live, these were quite popular within their indigenous Canada for performing rock & move greats in the ’50s and ’60s. Percy Moran, Simon J. Lemox, Smitty Gilles, B.J. Boomer and Ike Taylor produced the music group in 1971, as …

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Clouds

Clouds were a promising psychedelic-cum-prog-rock music group who never present the commercial achievement to complement their critical raves. As opposed to the majority of their contemporaries and competitors who hailed from Britain, the trio’s root base had been in Scotland and trailed back again to the middle-’60s. Ian Ellis (vocals) …

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Tundra

Originally named Manning, Tundra formed in 1970 in Toronto, signed to A&M and released a unitary, “Band Bandit” (1970).

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The Cooper Brothers

Richard and Brian Cooper, sons of the Ontario songwriter, played out in a variety of bands through the entire late ’60s, however the two finally shaped several their personal in 1971. They released three singles by 1974, but non-e charted before band authorized with Polydor the same 12 months and …

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Fields

A British prog rock-band somewhat similar to Procol Harum, Areas were formed in 1971 by ex-Rare Parrot organist Graham Field, former Ruler Crimson and potential Greenslade drummer Andy McCulloch, and guitarist and vocalist Alan Barry, who also spent a while in Ruler Crimson. The group lasted in regards to a …

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Benny & Bjorn

Benny Andersson (b. Dec 16, 1946, Sweden) and Bjorn Ulvaeus (b. Apr 25, 1945, Sweden) had been both members of the past due-’60s Swedish pop group known as the Hep Celebrities. Departing that group, they created a duo, Benny and Bjorn, and released one recording, Lycka, in 1970. Then they …

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The Fabulous Performers

The Fabulous Performers were actually the same singers as the Informers, a Philadelphia soul group that released two mid-’60s singles on the tiny J-Rude label. The Informers had been put on keep in middle-1967 when two from the associates were drafted. If they re-formed after those two got from the …

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David Hilowitz

Lead singer for rock and roll rings Pilgrim and Spookyhorse. His music have made an appearance on many compilations and soundtracks.

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