Lost Riders

An American singer-songwriter, Jim Lowe is best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, "The Green Door". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality and was considered an expert on the popular music…

Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s.   Check out some Tijuana Brass sometime!  In the meantime, here's a fav.

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - A Taste…

Born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, Buddy Holly learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. Holly's style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which…

An American keyboardist, singer and songwriter Billy Preston is one of only two non-Beatle musicians (along with Tony Sheridan) to be given a credit on a Beatles recording at the band's request; the group's 1969 single "Get Back…

An English rock band formed in London in 1976, The Clash were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.  For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer,…

It’s a stage name and a band name.  Both musician James C. Heath and his trio is called The Reverend Horton Heat. The group formed in 1986, playing its first gigs in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood. The core members…

Wanda Jackson began performing as a child and later had her own radio show in Oklahoma City. She was then discovered by country singer Hank Thompson, who helped her secure a recording contract with Decca Records in 1954, where…

Noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists, Canned Heat was launched by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues"…

When Woody Guthrie wrote This Land Is Your Land, I don't think he wasn’t intending on it being a tune Americans hear at every patriotic function and holiday. He wrote it in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless…

On February 2, 1977, David Hasselhoff made his musical debut on The Merv Griffin Show performing "Nadia's Theme", the theme song from the American television soap opera The Young and the Restless, the show in which Hasselhoff was starring at…

Tom Scholz first started writing music in 1969 while he was attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he wrote an instrumental song, "Foreplay".  After graduating with a master's degree, Scholz worked for Polaroid, using his salary to build a…

“Charles Grean of Dot Records had arranged with the studio to do an album of space music based on music from Star Trek, and he has a teenage daughter who's a fan of the show and a fan of Mr…

Their song "Ruby Are You Mad" came in 1956 after signing with MGM Records (1956) and began a string of hits through 1986. Among them were "Once More" (1958), "Up This Hill & Down" (1965), "Making Plans" (1965), "Rocky Top"…

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton, England in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto. They are regarded as a seminal influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk…

Mother's Finest is an American rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia, by the vocal duo of Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy and Glenn "Doc" Murdock in 1970 when the pair met up with guitarist Gary "Moses Mo" Moore and bassist Jerry…

One of the first to mix punk rock with surf music, Agent Orange is an American punk rock band formed in Placentia, California, in 1979.  The power trio's original lineup was Mike Palm on guitar and vocals, Steve Soto on…

One of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer, is Metallica.  They first found commercial success with the release of its third album, Master of Puppets (1986), which is cited as…

An American experimental music band, Cromagnon was active during the late 1960s. Led by multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriters Austin Grasmere and Brian Elliot, the band's only release was the album Orgasm in 1969, which was later reissued as Cave Rock. They are…

The Ink Spots.  An American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. Their unique musical style predated the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop. The Ink Spots…

Thy began calling itself the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968, but then shortened the name in 1969 to Chicago.  Chicago is one of the longest-running and most successful rock groups, and one of the world's best-selling groups of all…

An American bluegrass music duo of brothers, Jim McReynolds and Jesse McReynolds, called themselves Jim and Jesse. Jesse played the mandolin with a unique, self-invented "crosspicking" and "split-string" playing method, and Jim sang as a high tenor and played…

The Uniques were an American rock band based in Louisiana, with Joe Stampley at the helm. Members included brother Bobby Stampley of Springhill, bass; Ray Mills of nearby Sarepta, lead guitar; Mike Love of Magnolia, Arkansas, drums; Jim Woodfield…

Shock Me was written for the band Kiss after Ace Frehley was electrocuted onstage by a ungrounded handrail in Lakeland, FL.  He finished the show after a short break. The guitar solo here is considered one of his best. Coming…

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