Tag Archives: The Holidays

THE HOLIDAY SEASON were a Detroit group who are remembered for an archive, “I’ll Like You Forever,” (1966) that their associates didn’t even appear on. Edwin Starr sang business lead and J.J. Barnes and Steve Mancha provided backing vocals, plus some state that Eddie Anderson produced the session as well. …

Australian indie pop band the holiday season shaped in 2007 centered around the tunes of singer/guitarist Simon Jones. Along with high-school friend Will Magnus on synths and acoustic guitar, he was became a member of by bassist Alex Kortt and drummer Andrew Kerridge. Forging an offbeat pop audio that integrated …

The older brother from the Temptations’ lead singer David Ruffin, Jimmy enjoyed several huge hits himself within the mid-’60s for Berry Gordy’s Soul label. Ruffin initial agreed upon with another Motown subsidiary, the short-lived Magic, in 1961, nonetheless it was his convincing vocal on “What Becomes from the Brokenhearted” that …

Having a texture-heavy mixture of chillwave, shimmery wish pop, and dancefloor-ready indie electronic, alliterative Melbourne-based quintet Snakadaktal, using their boy-girl vocals and quirky conceptual nuances, dropped somewhere within the icy minimalist pop from the xx as well as the colorful hedonism of fellow Aussies Empire of sunlight. Formed this year …

Doo wop group the holiday season formed in Pittsburgh, PA, originally comprising vocalists Charlie Hatfield, Frank Gori, Barbara Jo Lippzer, Franny Grisnik and Ramon Lancianese. After savoring limited success through the past due ’50s and early ’60s with singles like “Depressed Summer months,” “My Gal” and “Carol,” the lineup dissolved; …