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Although he synthesized disparate components of both rock and roll and pop traditions, singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson was in mind a maverick whose allegiance belonged to neither. His preliminary group of albums in the past due ’60s produced him an individual favorite from the Beatles, who discovered an all natural affinity …

This UK duo featured Tony Cox (b. 10 November 1945, London, Britain) and Douglas Ugo Granville Allesandro MacRae-Brown (b. 17 Apr 1947, Florence, Italy). MacRae-Brown, a modern of Jonathan Ruler at Charterhouse Open public School, fulfilled Cox at college or university. The duo after that forged a songwriting collaboration and, …

New York-based Disciple were shaped in 1970 when singer Sandy Crespo joined up with a music group called the Outer Limitations, including Jon Oliver on acoustic guitar, Dennis Lattman on body organ and keyboards, Al Christopher on drums, and Chris Sheppard on bass. Blessed with five vocalists and an able …

Tommy Wayne & the Shondells — the reference to their name, even to a person who doesn’t really find out their music, evokes pictures of dances and the type of fun that rock and roll & move represented before it redefined itself on much more serious conditions. And between 1966 …

Brian Hyland’s puppy-love pop virtually described the sound and sensibility of bubblegum through the pre-Beatles era. Within the years after his teenager idol stature faded, he appreciated an innovative renaissance, releasing some underrated country-inspired initiatives and even producing a brief go back to the pop graphs. Created November 12, 1943, …

Produced in the past due ’60s in Ontario by saxophonist Steve Kennedy, guitarist Ken Marco, keyboard player William “Smitty” Smith, and drummer Wayne Rock, Motherlode have scored with a high 40 strike in 1969 — the steady “WHILE I Expire.” 2 yrs after the discharge from the record of the …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist John Parker Compton co-founded the acoustic music group Appaloosa with violinist Robin Batteau in the later ’60s. Both music artists had been intensely influenced with the folk picture within their hometown, Cambridge, MA. Compton got his begin singing within a Cambridge cathedral choir before he and …

Yellow Balloon’s main state to fame was that the band’s regular membership boasted a celebrity, acting professional Don Grady from the tv screen series My 3 Sons, which starred Fred MacMurray. The music group at once also included Daryl Dragon, who wasn’t as popular at that time as he’d be …

THE INDEGENT are one particular rings that keeps approaching in passing mentions in the trunk channels of 1960s LA rock and roll history, though relatively few folks have heard their records. They’re most likely most widely known for the larger bands that many members continued to following the Poor split …

LA psychedelic music group the Peanut Butter Conspiracy emerged in 1966 in the remains from the Ashes, formed the prior calendar year by singer Pat Taylor, guitarist John Merrill, bassist Alan Brackett, and drummer Spencer Dryden (who shortly still left the group to displace Skip Spence within the Jefferson Aircraft). …