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Lynne Hughes was the business lead singer from the late-’60s SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region music group Tongue and Groove, mining the field between folk, blues, and rock and roll, in somewhat the same way as fellow Bay Region feminine singers Tracy Nelson and Janis Joplin (or, from beyond …

This large-scale communal outfit was originally formed in Walnut Creek, California, USA. In the beginning a trio, by 1970 the line-up have been expanded to add Tim Barnes (acoustic guitar), John Blakeley (bass/acoustic guitar), Luther Bildt (acoustic guitar/vocals), Pete Sears (keyboards/bass) and Mike Mau (drums). This quintet was asked to …

Sal Valentino was among the great voices in American rock and roll from the 1960s — because the lead singer from the Beau Brummels, he was for a while, in the middle-’60s, a fixture in AM radio, his tone of voice connected with such strikes as “Have fun Have fun” …