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The best rock & roll session man, Leon Russell’s very long and storied career included collaborations having a virtual who’s who of music icons spanning from Jerry Lee Lewis to Phil Spector towards the Rolling Rocks. An identical eclecticism and range also surfaced in his single function, which couched his …

Although name Ross Bagdasarian is familiar and then devoted collectors of Americana, the three characters he created — Alvin, Simon, and Theodore Chipmunk — have already been famous all over the world for decades. The person who brought the Chipmunks alive was created on January 27, 1919, in Fresno, CA. …

Pickett is, needless to say, the person doing the Boris Karloff impression around the Halloween strike “Monster Mash.” He relocated to L.A. in 1961 pursuing his discharge from your army, hoping to be an acting professional. He became a member of a performing group known as The Cordials, and after …

The Five Blobs was the name given the studio group, led by sessionman Bernie Nee, assembled for the recording from the title song “The Blob,” by Burt Bacharach and Mack David (sibling from the more famous Hal David, who afterwards became Bacharach’s longtime songwriting partner). The tune, a sax-driven dance …