Tag Archives: Early Pop/Rock

Singer, songwriter, disk jockey, and radio sponsor and character Jim Lowe is most remembered for his edition of “Green Door,” a track compiled by Marvin Moore and Bob Davie, which strike number one within the singles graphs in the U.S. in 1956. Given birth to Might 7, 1923 in Springfield, …

Small Eva Narcissus Boyd was a babysitter for Carole Ruler and Gerry Goffin when the songwriting group was inspired to create “The Loco-Motion,” a music predicated on a dance that Eva would do throughout the house. Eva also surely got to sing on the demonstration, which impressed Don Kirshner plenty …

Australian novelty performer and accordion player Rolf Harris was known for many years as the figure in back of the past due-’50s hit “Tie up Me Kangaroo Straight down, Sport,” but that changed along with his 2014 conviction for intimate assault. Harris was created in Perth in 1930. Initially it …

Wayne Wadhams, founding person in the ’60s pop group the Fifth Property, was created on November 12, 1946, in Stamford, CT. He went to Stamford public colleges and later on Dartmouth University, graduating in June of 1969. Originally course of 1968, Wadhams became popular a 12 months plus to tour …

Pop/rock vocalist and songwriter Johnny Tillotson enjoyed his ideal success in the first ’60s when he scored some Top Ten strikes including “Poetry in Movement” as well as the self-penned “It all Keeps Directly on a-Hurtin’.” Altogether, he positioned 30 singles and LPs in the Billboard graphs between 1958 and …

Often dismissed only a small amount a lot more than “the male Dionne Warwick,” uptown soul singer Lou Johnson certainly rivaled Warwick mainly because the premier interpreter from the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David through the composing team’s formative years, yet unlike so lots of the vocalists who …

Though that they had a couple of hits over the 1960s, Jay & the Americans were a throwback to a previous era within their doo wop-influenced vocals, neatly groomed, short-haired appearance, and mixture of pop/rock and roll with operatic schmaltz. Constructed round the neck-bulging upper-register vocals of David Blatt aka …

Vocalist Jan Bradley’s soft soprano graced Curtis Mayfield’s music “Mama Didn’t Lay,” a high Ten R&B/Best 20 pop strike on Chess Information in 1963. Blessed Addie Bradley on July 6, 1943, in Byhalia, MS, Jan Bradley transferred with her family members to Robbins, IL, a Chicago suburb, when she was …

While Lou Christie’s shrieking falsetto was being among the most distinctive voices in every of pop music, he was also among the first single performers from the rock and roll period to compose his own materials, generating a number of the biggest & most memorable hits from the mid-’60s. Delivered …

Joey Dee led the home music group at New York’s Peppermint Lounge, immortalizing the joint in his 1961 chart-topper “Peppermint Twist.” Delivered Joseph DiNicola in Passaic, NJ, Dee teamed with veteran manufacturer Henry Glover to cut “Peppermint Twist” for Roulette Information, and the large strike resulted in a starring function …