9 May 1946, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Holmes is best remembered for one major hit, Playground In My Mind, in 1973. He was raised in Farnham, New York, USA, and began singing and acting as a child. He led a high school rock group and also studied music in college. His professional music career began upon his discharge from the army, at clubs in the Bahamas. Th
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9 March 1942, Cambridge, Idaho, USA. Lindsay first achieved recognition as the lead vocalist of the US rock group Paul Revere And The Raiders. While with that group he launched a solo career. He first sang publicly in 1956 at a high school talent contest. Receiving a favourable response, he started a rock band. In 1958, he moved to Caldwell, Idaho, he sat in with an early ba
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26 March 1949, Inglewood, California, USA. Lawrence was a well-known actress in 1973 when she recorded The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia. Lawrence studied dance and played piano and guitar as a child. By the time she attended college she had joined folk groups, including the Young Americans. Due to her resemblance to comic actress Carol Burnett, a meeting
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Reunion was a studio group created around songwriters Norman Dolph and Paul DiFranco, which scored one US Top 10 single in 1974 with the novelty song Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me). The group had already released a number of singles on RCA Records with no luck when writer/producer DiFranco approached writer/singer Joey Levine to work on the song which ulti
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Although former construction worker Willem Duyn aka Big Mouth (31 March 1937, the Netherlands, d. 4 December 2004) was a rock n roll exponent who had previously worked with the band Speedway, he teamed up with classically-trained vocalist Sjoukje Vant Spiijker aka Maggie MacNeal (b. 5 May 1950, Krabbendam, the Netherlands) in 1971 af
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John Royce Mathis, 30 September 1935, San Francisco, California, USA. In 1956, the 19-year-old Mathis was signed to Columbia Records where he began his career with a jazz-tinged album. A US Top 20 hit with Wonderful! Wonderful! saw him move adroitly towards the balladeer market, and before long he was a major concert attraction, with regular appearances on highly
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8 March 1946, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA. Meisners musical career began in the early 60s as a member of local act, the Dynamics. He subsequently moved to Colorado, where he joined the Soul Survivors, later known as the Poor; but although this folk/country rock act was active between 1964 and 1968, its recorded legacy was constrained to two singles. Meisner then became
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Formed in 1965, this Los Angeles, California, USA quintet was viewed as a stepping-stone between the clean-cut folk of the Kingston Trio and the rock-based perspective offered by the Byrds. Michael Stewart (guitar/vocals), Beverley Bivens (vocals), Bob Jones (guitar/vocals), Jerry Burgan (guitar/vocals) and Pete Fullerton (bass/vocals) enjoyed a US Top 3 hit that year with
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