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Sandy Nelson was the largest — and something from the few — star drummers from the past due ’50s and early ’60s era where instrumental rock and roll was at its peak. He arrived two TOP hits, “Teenager Beat” (1959) and “Allow There End up being Drums” (1961), which encircled …

Retro-rocker Ben Vaughn enticed interest for his faithful re-creations of pre-Beatles rock and roll & move, pop, and root base music, which had been filtered through his quirky love of life. Vaughn was raised in Philadelphia and performed drums in the neighborhood punk music group the Sickidz in 1980. 2 …

A somewhat obscure but quite interesting performer from your tail end of the original ’50s rock & roll explosion, Latino guitarist and singer Romero is most well-known for writing and singing the initial version of “Hippy Hippy Tremble.” Causing just a ripple within the U.S. upon its 1959 launch, it …

Composer, guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader Frank Zappa was one musical figure throughout a executing and recording profession that lasted through the 1960s towards the ’90s. His disparate affects included doo wop music and avant-garde traditional music; although he led groupings that might be known as rock and roll & roll …

Probably one of the most colorful heroes in the history of rock and roll & move, Kim Fowley was, during the period of his decades-long profession, a genuine jack-of-all-trades: vocalist, songwriter, producer, supervisor, disk jockey, promoter, and published poet. He was also the catalyst behind a lot of the pop …

Given birth to and raised within the seemingly regular confines of Halifax within the post-swing, pre-beat period, expenses bissett (his name purposefully de-capitalized like fellow poet e.e. cummings) nevertheless ran abroad (ostensibly to, yes, join the circus) at age 17 into an exceptionally compelling artistic existence. He ultimately landed within …

While they hardly ever earned greater than a tiny cult following outside their house condition of California, the Hollywood Stars became heroes to glam and power pop fans using their tight, hooky, guitar-driven music, which emerged at the same time when prog rock and roll and singer/songwriters were dominating the …

Documents is sketchy upon this Philadelphia group, but apparently these were masterminded by a single Rusty Evans and included David Bromberg within an unspecified function. Based on the skimpy liner records, their recording was the consequence of wee-hours freakout classes at Cameo-Parkway studios. They required a middle floor between the …