February 14, 2024
Biography
Another of Gary Usher’s myriad in-name-only studio room groups, the Rivals officially released 1 album, Strikes of the road and Remove, on Dot Information in 1963. Using experienced L.A. program players, and sometimes managing the vocals by himself, Usher churned out an extraordinary selection of singles and LPs by assorted …
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January 23, 2024
Biography
The Dragsters were a studio construct through the peak many years of the hot rod and browse music boom, releasing an album called Pull Town in 1964 on Wing Information, and later on that same year, Mercury Information released it as Hey Small Cobra – Pull City and Various other …
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January 7, 2024
Biography
In the first ’60s, Paul Simon (after that using the pseudonym Jerry Landis for his compositions) cut several singles as “Tico” of Tico as well as the Triumphs. One of these, “Motorbike,” do make amount 99 at the top 100, but generally they’re proof what a lengthy journey he’d have …
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January 1, 2024
Biography
The Seaside Nuts were one of the studio-only groups that released tracks to which Lou Reed contributed in the mid-1960s, when he was an employee songwriter and session musician on the spending budget/exploitation label Pickwick. “Routine Annie” may be the one Seaside Nuts monitor to have obtained reasonably wide blood …
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December 31, 2023
Biography
The Kickstands were among writer and producer Gary Usher’s studio amalgams that used veteran L.A. program players in the first to mid-’60s to create record after record of hot fishing rod and surf music. With players through the so-called Wrecking Staff, including Jerry Cole, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, Leon Russell, …
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December 23, 2023
Biography
The Revells weren’t a genuine group, but among the several surf-hot rod acts from the 1960s which were actually made up of California session players and songwriters. They released one record, a novelty-concept LP of kinds jammed with music about the then-hot slot machine car trend. Masterminded by Gary Usher …
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October 27, 2023
Biography
Contrary to public opinion, the Rip Chords were actually a genuine group, a duo featuring Ernie Bringas and Phil Stewart, overdubbed right into a larger group sound simply by manufacturer Terry Melcher and his partner, Bruce Johnston. After two failed singles, Melcher and Johnston overran the business lead performing reins …
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September 3, 2023
Biography
The Catalinas have already been a fixture in the Carolina beach music scene for pretty much 50 years. A horn-driven music group that sounds a bit just like a lighter edition of Chicago, the Catalinas had been created in 1957, and experienced regional strikes with “You Haven’t the proper” in …
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July 30, 2023
Biography
The Buddies were a studio creation of producers Mike Curb and Nick Venet, come up with to catch the final gasp from the browse and hot rod boom in 1965. Officially the Buddies released two albums on Mercury Wing that 12 months, Go OPT FOR the Buddies as well as …
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July 27, 2023
Biography
When rapper 50 Cent came up with the globe of underground mixtapes, he place a typical most rappers would follow, a minimum of the ones who weren’t building their names in the live rap fight circuit. Phoenix, AZ, indigenous Young Hot Fishing rod — originally referred to as simply Hot …
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