Tag "best classic bands"
Frank, Dean, and Sammy: Rat Pack Holiday Treats
It wouldn’t be a holiday season without some classic performances from the ensemble’s three leading members, separately and together
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Aug 21, 2021: Don Everly, Older Half of the Everly Brothers, Dies
The siblings, among the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, influenced the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and many others.
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The Doors on ‘American Bandstand’
The Doors were enjoying a #1 hit when they joined Dick Clark in 1967 for two songs and an interview with America’s Oldest Teenager
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Aug 21, 1958: Ricky Nelson Cuts ‘Lonesome Town’
The star of a popular 1950s family sitcom whose rock ‘n’ roll music doesn’t get the credit it deserves for helping popularize the music
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When the Univ. of Georgia Marching Band Honored Gregg Allman
He established a scholarship at the University in 2014 and they paid tribute to the music legend at halftime. The week before, another Rock Hall member performed with the Univ. of Washington Marching Band
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August 18, 1978: The Who Release ‘Who Are You’
The Who’s 8th studio album was their first in three years. Three weeks’ after its release, the band were in for a shock. Watch the recording of the title track
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August 18, 1979: Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter Marry
The English late-’70s new wave and some of country music’s finest heritage connected when rocker Lowe married rocking country artist Carter
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Aug 17, 1968: Rascals ‘People Got to Be Free’ Hits #1
The third #1 pop single by the popular blue-eyed soul hit machine was a plea for tolerance. And right on time for the summer of ’68
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‘My Cousin Vinny’ Court Scenes
Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei have many fish-out-of-water moments as New Yorkers in Alabama in the 1992 comedy. Her role as Mona Lisa Vito earned her an Oscar
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Watch Tom Jones and Janis Joplin Tear It Up
A clip from a 1969 episode of the This Is Tom Jones variety series is a duet between the Welsh singing sensation and the blues goddess
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