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Baltimore’s Peppermint Rainbow had a high 40 hit in 1969 using their harmony-laden soft rocker “ARE YOU CONSIDERING Staying After Weekend” — a nod (both thematically and musically) towards the Spanky & Our Gang strikes “Sunday Morning hours” and “Weekend Will Never End up being the Equal.” Like Spanky & …

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 …

Songwriter/vocalist Tommy Boyce co-wrote with Bobby Hart a few of the most enduring pop strikes from the ’60s, including those from the Monkees. Boyce also co-wrote Body fat Domino’s “Become My Visitor” and Lee Curtis’ “Pretty Small Angel Eye.” Born Sept 29, 1939, in Charlottesville, VA, Boyce documented for RCA …

The prototypical bubblegum group, the 1910 Fruitgum Company was the brainchild of Buddah Information house producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, also the masterminds behind such phenoms because the Ohio Express as well as the Music Explosion. The Kasenetz-Katz method was a straightforward one: they enlisted anonymous studio room musicians …

The Tammys, a Pa girl group where sisters Margaret Owens and Catherine Owens sang with Linda Jones, did three obscure singles in 1963 for the Ascot, United Performers, and Veep brands. They are many remembered for their association with Lou Christie, who helped have them authorized, and who (with songwriting …

Formed in the ashes of Rare Breed of dog, Mansfield Ohio’s the Ohio Exhibit emerged together in 1967 and appreciated a number of the largest successes from the bubblegum rock and roll craze from the past due ’60s. The original line-up included Joey Levine on vocals, Dale Power on electric …

Blue-eyed soul vocalist Len Barry paced many hits of the first ’60s, both as an associate of Dovells so when a single act. Created in Philadelphia in 1942, he debuted on polish because the vocalist for the 1958 solitary “Mope-Itty Mope,” as documented from the Boss-Tones. He created the group …

Boyce & Hart, the songwriting and (later on) performing group of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, are most well-known for writing many of the Monkees’ big hits, including “Last Teach to Clarksville,” “Valleri,” and “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Rock.” Collectively and separately, in addition they wrote or added to strikes …

Most widely known for his country-flavored rock and roll strike “Down within the Boondocks,” Billy Joe Royal had an extended career that found him become among the 1st pop performers to successfully revive his business fortunes by embracing straight nation music. Although he never really had another strike as effective …