Nigel Olsson Similar Artists

Toby Beau - 100% match to Nigel Olsson

Formed in 1975 in Texas, USA, Toby Beau was a quintet best known for its 1978 Top 20 single ‘My Angel Baby’. The group, which took its name from a fishing boat, comprised Balde Silva (guitar/vocals), Danny McKenna (guitar), Ron Rose (guitar), Steve ‘Zip’ Zipper (bass) and Rob Young (drums). They were somewhat successful on the local club circuit when produce Read more

Henry Gross - 65% match to Nigel Olsson

Clint Holmes - 54% match to Nigel Olsson

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 Read more

Reunion - 48% match to Nigel Olsson

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 Read more

Vicki Lawrence - 38% match to Nigel Olsson

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 Read more

Donny & Marie Osmond - 34% match to Nigel Olsson

David Geddes - 28% match to Nigel Olsson

Marilyn McCoo - 23% match to Nigel Olsson

30 September 1943, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. McCoo first reached stardom as a founding member of the Fifth Dimension. That group was formed in Los Angeles in 1965 as the Versatiles, and enjoyed a number of Top 10 hits between 1967 and 1972, including ‘Up, Up And Away’, ‘Stoned Soul Picnic’, ‘Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In’ and ‘Wedding Be Read more

Johnny Mathis - 21% match to Nigel Olsson

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 Read more

Chris Christian - 19% match to Nigel Olsson

Abilene, Texas, USA. The appropriately named Chris Christian was subject to an intensely religious upbringing in Texas. During his college years he formed his own folk group at Abilene Christian College, and also toured throughout the south. He graduated with a degree in business investment and moved to Nashville to play banjo with the Opryland Dixieland Band. He then joined Read more

Ian Thomas - 16% match to Nigel Olsson

Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - 15% match to Nigel Olsson

The Brady Bunch - 15% match to Nigel Olsson

The Floaters - 15% match to Nigel Olsson

Originally from Detroit, USA, Charles Clark (Libra), Larry Cunningham (Cancer), Paul Mitchell (Leo), Ralph Mitchell (Aquarius) and latterly, Jonathan ‘Mighty Midget’ Murray, who joined the group in 1978, were responsible for one of soul’s more aberrant moments. ‘Float On’, with its astrological connotations and Barry White -influenced machismo, was save Read more