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Britain’s premiere program vocalists through the entire 1960s, the Breakaways also recorded a small number of little-known but superb gal group singles. The trio of Vicki Haseman, Margot Quantrell and Betty Prescott originally teamed in the vocal group the Vernons Young ladies; another onetime Vernon Gal, Jean Ryder, changed Prescott …

The Maisonettes were an odd one-hit music group of the first ’80s, the oddness laying not really much within their hit as their mix of maverick indie label beginnings having a semi-manufactured image that some indie purists will dsicover crass. Their strike, “Heartache Avenue,” moved into the U.K. graphs in …

Although she’s best-known as the quite, perky teenager who earned the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with her hit “Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son,” French pop singer France Gall has already established a a lot longer and even more varied career than that, having released solid records nearly nonstop because …

The ’60s-pop-inspired alternative band the Januaries features vocalist/guitarist Debbie Gemstone, guitarist/programmer/producer Rick Boston, keyboardist/programmer John Nau, bassist Tobias Kroon, drummer Petur Smith, and trumpet player Mitch Maker. Gemstone is a previous person in the punk music group Green Fuzz; Rick Boston created Rickie Lee Jones’ 1997 record Ghostyhead. The music …

Although actor/pop singer Sylvie Vartan is Bulgarian, she’d ultimately receive recognition in the French, usually singing entirely within the language of her adopted homeland. Blessed August 15, 1944, in Iskretz, Bulgaria, Vartan demonstrated great skill for both performing and singing young, leading to an appearance within the Bulgarian film Beneath …

A footnote to the first background of the Beatles, teenager pop singer Simone Jackson (nee Jacobs) was created in 1947, and have been executing professionally for most of five weeks when she was backed by the Fab 4 at Liverpool’s Cavern Membership on Sept 12, 1962. (The evening’s costs also …

Before she became a famous TV comedienne, Tracy Ullman documented two albums in the first ’80s that very easily recalled the classic girl group sound from the ’60s. Ullman protected from Doris Time (“Move Over Darling”) to Blondie (“[I’m Often Handled by Your] Existence, Dear”), locating the root connections between …

Using a hit-single background spanning four decades, Burt Bacharach became one of the most important composers of popular music within the 20th century, almost add up to such classic tunesmiths as George Gershwin or Irving Berlin. His advanced however breezy productions lent from great jazz, spirit, Brazilian bossa nova, and …

As the business lead singer from the Smiths, arguably the main indie music group in Britain through the ’80s, Morrissey’s theatrical crooning and literate, poetic lyrics — filled up with romantic angst, sociable alienation, and trimming wit — connected powerfully having a legion of similarly private, disaffected youth. These followers …

Helen Shapiro is remembered today by young pop tradition buffs because the slightly uncomfortable celebrity/singer in Richard Lester’s 1962 debut feature film, It’s Trad, Father. From 1961 until 1963, nevertheless, Shapiro was England’s teenage pop music queen, at 1 point offering 40,000 copies daily of her biggest solitary, “Walking Back …