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Danny O’Keefe

Most closely connected with his 1972 TOP entry “Great Period Charlie’s Got the Blues,” vocalist/songwriter Danny O’Keefe was created and raised in Spokane, WA, starting his performing profession around the Minnesota coffeehouse circuit from the mid-’60s. Through Buffalo Springfield supervisor Charles Greene, he got a phone audition with Atlantic Information …

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Albert Hammond

Albert Hammond is among the more lucrative pop/rock and roll songwriters to emerge from England through the 1960s and 1970s, and in addition has enjoyed an extended profession being a saving artist, his function popular in two dialects on 3 continents across 4 decades. Hammond was created in London in …

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Arlon Bennett

Arlon Bennett’s music have been set alongside the paintings of Norman Rockwell, and that’s a precise analogy; lots of the folk-rock tunes that Bennett offers written could very easily be referred to as musical vignettes that vividly depict American existence, past and present. The East Coastline vocalist/songwriter’s subject material offers …

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Charles Manson

A living, walking exemplory case of the hippie wish eliminated terribly awry, before Manson and his family members continued the getting rid of spree that practically undermined and finally destroyed the peaceful atmosphere from the Southern California community, the fledgling musician tried many times, unsuccessfully, to property a recording agreement. …

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Harry Chapin

Harry Chapin’s profession as a favorite singer/songwriter was trim short by a car incident in 1981, yet he left out some recordings that his followers continue steadily to treasure years after his loss of life. Chapin was by no means a critically acclaimed vocalist/songwriter. Critics accused him of over-sentimentalizing his …

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Rupert Holmes

A singer/songwriter and poet, Rupert Holmes has performed and written for most music legends, and gained popularity by himself with some successful pop singles through the 1970s and ’80s. Although a reserved playwright and publication writer, his efforts to the rock and roll music market and Broadway have already been …

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Jesse Colin Young

Jesse Colin Small got his begin like a folksinger in Greenwich Town coffeehouses in the first ’60s, releasing two major-label albums, The Spirit of a Town Boy (Apr 1964) and Little Bloodstream (March 1965). He fulfilled guitarist Jerry Corbitt in Cambridge, MA, with keyboardist/guitarist Lowell “Banana” Levinger and drummer Joe …

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Don McLean

Famed for — and ultimately described by — his perennial “American Pie,” singer/songwriter Don McLean was created Oct 2, 1945, in New Rochelle, NY. After obtaining his begin in the folk night clubs of NEW YORK during the middle-’60s, McLean battled for several years, creating a little pursuing through his …

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