Category: 1960s
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Sam Fan Thomas
About Sam Fan Thomas is a Cameroonian musician associated with Makossa. He began in the late 1960s and had his first hit with “Rikiatou”. His “African Typic Collection” was an international hit in 1984 and is perhaps his best known work. Thomas began his career in the early 1970s as a guitarist in the Cameroonian…
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Dr. John
About Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, R&B, soul and funk. Albums/Songs: Tango Palace City Lights Anytime, Anyplace Crawfish Sóiree The Sun, Moon & Herbs Afterglow Television In the Right Place Dr. John Plays Mac…
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The Box Tops
About The Box Tops is an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1967. They are best known for the hits “The Letter”, “Cry Like a Baby”, “Choo Choo Train,” and “Soul Deep” and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by…
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The Easybeats
About The Easybeats were an Australian rock band which formed in Sydney in late 1964. They are best known for their 1966 hit single “Friday on My Mind”, which is regarded as the first Australian rock song to achieve international success; Rolling Stone described it as “the first international victory for Oz rock”. One of…
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France Gall
About Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Poupée de cire, poupée de son”, representing Luxembourg. Later in her career, she became known for her work with…
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Herb Alpert
About Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, five of which became No. 1 albums; he has scored…
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Roy Orbison
About Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Orbison’s music is mostly in the rock music genre and his most successful periods were in the early 1960s and the late 1980s. He was nicknamed “The Caruso of Rock”…
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Gabor Szabo
About Gábor István Szabó was a Hungarian-American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music. Albums/Songs: Live in Cleveland 1976 Gypsy ’66 Belsta River Magical Connection Dreams Mizrab Light My Fire The Sorcerer Femme Fatale Small World Lena & Gabor Blowin’ Some Old Smoke More Sorcery Jazz Raga Simpático Nightflight His Great Hits…
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Sivuca
About Severino Dias de Oliveira, known professionally as Sivuca, was a Brazilian accordionist, guitarist and singer. In addition to his home state of Paraíba, Brazil, and cities Recife and Rio de Janeiro, he worked and lived in Paris, Lisbon, and New York City intermittently. He has two daughters, Wilma Da Silva and Flavia de Oliveira…
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Bobby Womack
About Robert Dwayne Womack was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke’s backing guitarist, Womack’s career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, jazz, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, and gospel. Albums/Songs: I Don’t…