Category: 1960s
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Richie Havens
About Richard Pierce Havens was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk, soul, and rhythm and blues. He had a rhythmic guitar style. He was the opening act at Woodstock, sang many jingles for television commercials, and was also the voice of the GeoSafari toys. Albums/Songs: The Best of Richie Havens…
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Barbra Streisand
About Barbara Joan “Barbra” Streisand is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded an EGOT. Albums/Songs: The Broadway Album The Way We Were My Name Is Barbra Emotion The Third Album A Christmas…
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Michel Legrand
About Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young…
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Booker T. & The M.G.’s
About Booker T. & the M.G.’s were an American instrumental, R&B, and funk band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962. The band is considered influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul. The original members of the group were Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson Jr.…
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Lynn Anderson
About Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, “Rose Garden”, was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Anderson is regarded as one of country music’s most significant performers. Albums/Songs: Rose Garden Rose…
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Eric Burdon & The Animals
About The Animals are an English rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963. Albums/Songs: American Dreams Starportrait Misunderstood House of the Rising Sun Rock & Pop Legends Nightwinds Dying Mirage Power Company Lost within the Halls of Fame ’Til Your River Runs Dry The Animals’ Greatest Hits: Sung by Eric Burdon My Secret…
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Docteur Nico
About Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay, popularly known as Docteur Nico, was a guitarist, composer and one of the pioneers of Congolese music. He was born in Mikalayi in the Belgian Congo. He graduated in 1957 as a technical teacher, but inspired by his musical family, he took up the guitar and in time became a…
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Toots and the Maytals
About The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music. Albums/Songs: Got to Be Tough In the Dark World Is Turning…
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Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland
About Robert Calvin Bland, known professionally as Bobby “Blue” Bland, was an American blues singer. Albums/Songs: Blues Consolidated Dreamer Sad Street First Class Blues Reflections in Blue Memphis Monday Morning Long Beach 1983 Come Fly With Me After All I Feel Good, I Feel Fine Here We Go Again Blues You Can Use Two Steps…
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Eydie Gormé
About Eydie Gormé was an American singer who achieved notable success in pop, Latin, and jazz genres. She sang solo and in the duo Steve and Eydie with husband, Steve Lawrence, on albums and television. She also performed on Broadway and in Las Vegas. Albums/Songs: More Amor Vamps the Roaring 20s I Feel So Spanish!…
