25 huge bands of the 60s, you have totally forgotten existed

Do you remember these acts of music once major who helped shape the original band of the sixties?


If you live through the 60s, you intimately know the roadstones, doors and, of course, the Beatles. But what about groups like Sam Simulacre and Pharaohs, Left Banke and Marcels? Even if you may not know them by name, these artists - and the rest of the groups in this list - have been a major success in the 1960s. Their blows have had Shakin people on dance floors 'era and they always get toes that tap today. So, without any other teenage, from Motown to the Popular People at the British invasion, here are 25 huge bands of the 60s that you totally forgotten existed.

1
The Marcels

The Marcels
Alamy

Even at a time when unique was the name of the game in the music sector, the Marcels expanded from other groups. Miscellaneous and racially formed on the 50s Doo-Wop, the Pittsburgh group struck with a little bit of time not - overcome "Blue Moon" - a song previously covered, among others, among others,Elvis Presley-Who wentNo. 1 in 1961.

2
The Amboy Dukes

The Amboy Dukes album
Traditional documents

Little would callTED NUGENT A hippie - he is a permanent fighter who did not say drugs and alcohol all his life, after all. But the NUGE first found success as the main guitarist of this Detroit-based psychedelic band. Although maybe not a household name, Nugent remained proud of his work with the band - whose second studio album,Travel to the center of your mind, had a littleSuccess of the graph in 1968-and hadthat to say at a 2009 meeting: "Everyone knows that the Amboy Dukes are the ultimate garage group on the planet Earth."

3
Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann
Alamy

Manfred Mann Was an English rock band Blues named after their keyboard. The group based in London had a series of hits in the 1960s, three of which wentNo. 1 on U.K cards.-1964's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" 1966 "Pretty Flamingo" and 1968's "The powerful Quinn", which was crushed byBob Dylan.

4
The Archies

The Archies
RCA Records

Yes, these archies. Those in comics, cartoons, and then, in 1969, the group, whose icy sweet "sugar" is the melody of the definition of the genus Bubble Gum Pop. The songOverhanmed graphics in the United States. and around the world, making the archive the first fictitious group to hit the n ° 1 and the only group to do it without ever playing live, according toNPR. As so many acts in the 1960s, however, their brilliant-technicolor success has begun to mitigatethe 70'sAnd when they resurface of the decades later with a Christmas album, he did not manage to graphically.

5
Procol Harum

Procol Harum
Alamy

We had never heard of them either. But we certainly heard about "Whiter Shade of Pale", a single handful of singles for sale10 million copies. Five decades and many incarnations later, Procol Harum always turns.

6
The left banke

Left Banke
Alamy

What is the list of 60 years of baroque-where rock meets a classic section of the registration store. The New York StripEarly mapped With songs like "Foot Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina" before dissolving in 1969.

7
Barry Sadler

Barry Sadler
Alamy

Although not technically a "band",Sergeant Barry Sadleris too enigmatic an artist not to mention on this list. A veteran of the army and the army of the air decorated, his "ballad of the green berets" was a tribute to his combat comrades of the special forces at the top of the pace of peace. The song struck # 1 while he was still enlisted and sold9 million copies. Foreign was still the post-military and musical career of Sadler: a pulp novelist in Guatemala.

8
Paul Revere & Raiders

Paul Revere and the Raiders
Alamy

Can an organ-based band of Idaho really have a revolutionary band of war? Well yes. With four top 10 of the top 10 hits, including "good thing", which was obviously in evidence inQuentin Tarantino.Once upon a time in Hollywood, Raiders could be found in the specific wires of the period ofDick Clark to theBatman Series.

9
Hermits Hermits

Herman's Hermits
Alamy

With seven albums, three movies and twoN ° 1 HITS BILLBOARD- "Mrs. Brown you have a beautiful girl" and "I am Henry VIII, I'm" -herman's Hermits was the quintessement of the 60s. Headned by a former soap actorPeter noone, the rocky quartet of Manchester, England, which, on the heels of Beatlemania, made a great splash on the American cards as part of theBritish invasion. And although they derived in a relative darkness when you consider the other bands of this group - rolled stones, WHO and kinks, to name a few - the Herman are still there and turn! The proof in theirVintage website.

10
Young people

The Youngbloods band
Alamy

A lot ofHouse cafe from the 50s faded and deceased act over the next decade, but this rocky folk rocky trio has entered their own group of house in New YorkCoffee at go go, then as a consumer act with theBillboardstruck, "meet."

11
Hollies

The Hollies
Alamy

Graham Nash was still a schoolboy obsessed with Skiffle when he formed the first embodiment of this five-room song group that made serious waves on thegraphics in the 60s and 70s with theirHarmonies and synchronized outfits. Nash Sail segment for America of the end of the decade to train Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, who were just as successed musically, without the cabinets.

12
The balls of fire

The Fireballs
Alamy

Their sound and their name had a lot to "the killer" himself,Jerry Lee LewisBut the balls of fire had less power. A pure act of the 60s, the song of the band "Sugar Shack"went n ° 1 In 1963, but they did not crack the best 10 until the 1967 "wine bottle", which culminated at the N ° 9 on the American charts. A year later, with the two songs always on the affected rotation, the fireballs no longer burned.

13
Kingsmen

The Kingsmen
Alamy

You can not remember this festive group ever gigging by name, but you certainly know their indisherd and always scriptable Hit Smash"Louie Louie"-aRichard [NOT MANDRIN]Bay blanket. After struck the waves in 1963, the song, which is necessary, the learning material for each group of rock garage, maintains a presence on the classic Rock and Oldies radio stations still so far.

14
Applicants

The Seekers
Alamy

This folklore Quartet Aussie looked more like "50s of the 60s branch", but their unlikely interpretation of the ballad of their homeland "Waltzing Matilda" allowed them to cement as a giant band of the time that would eventually end for sale50 million recordings.

15
Researchers

The Searchers
Alamy

Another successful massive band that you heard, but that you are not heard about, the researchers got up from the ashes of Liverpool Skiple and helped to lead the British invasion with hits like"Hippie hippie shake" and "love potion # 9." A 2019 tour finally removed the group, which lives, somewhat, viaFacebook.

16
The shadows

The Shadows
Alamy

The group better known as the support band toCliff richards-England's response to Elvis-Ut managed to their right,Mapping Four No. 1. EPS. Their "apache" unique instrumental spent5 weeks at No.1 And had guitarists from the room in the world trying to master their surf-rock licks.

17
Sam simulator and pharaohs

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Alamy

FrontierDomingo Samundo The cost of costume would never fly today, but the greatest success of the group still plays. "Bully Wooly" has passed18 weeks on the billboard 100, and today is synonymous with Garage Classic Good-Time Rock as another part struck on this list.

18
The brothers rooms

Chambers Brothers
Alamy

You want evidence of eclectic surrender in the 1960s? Look no further than this psychedelic fan of Mississippi and theirAn instrument of 11 minutes of "time has come today, "The unique version of which one strikes # 11 on the display panel 100.

19
Jan & Dean

Jan and Dean
Alamy

Jan and Dean were two Los Angeles beach boys, including the surfing and hits of DOO-WOP - including the "Death Curve" and the N ° 1 "Surf City"26 in 8 years-Made them as essential for this kind that, well, the actual beach boys.

20
The fifth dimension

Fifth Dimension
Alamy

A real amalgam of all things '60, and some things no, this Californian combo has combined soul, funk, rock, Motown, show-morve, rock and something else she had the impression of adding in the mix. In 1969, the fifth dimension published "Aquarius"NO.1 SINGLE It would become the song of the signature for the musical counterculture madly popularHair.

21
Dave Clark Five

Dave Clark Five band
Alamy

Although not known as the Quintessential British invasion group, the Dave Clark five appeared 18 times on "The show Ed Sullivan"and sold 100 million. Oh, andTheir n ° 1 single, "Content of all too much," "I want to hold your hand," by these four tops of Liverpool.

22
Tears of blood sweat

Blood Sweat and Tears band
Alamy

This Canadian experimental collective had a rotating door of the members who included players from, among other groups, theBlues project andFrank ZappaThe mothers of the invention. The experience worked and the second album of the group, 1968 named paraph.Tears of blood sweat, won theGrammed For the album of the year. The next decade has seen so many success, but the group has not published a studio record since 1980.

23
Naughty

The Rascals
Alamy

As fruitful as it was under the radar, the Namins of New Jersey had several singles shots, including the NO.1 Infectious Hits "Good Lovin" and "Groovin" "before breaking in the 1970s. A2013 meeting in Broadway Produced by super-fanSteven van Zandt of the street band andSopranos Recall the world of naughty and we are here to do the same thing.

24
SURFARIS

The Surfaris
Alamy

This Californian combo had great hopes for their first single, "Surfer Joe", in 1963. It was a wipe, but thank you to God for the B side! "Wipe" and it's an emblematic drum rollpast 25 weeks on the blank panel 100 and the song was played on5 million times on the radio .

25
Tornadoes

The Tornados
Alamy

Originally, a support group that made film scores, these English instrumentalists marked a hit # 1 in 1962 with the song "Telstar", which is the first song by a British band for the American graphics. , according to American composer author .


Categories: Culture
The stars "90210" respond to the claim of Jessica Alba on how they treated her
The stars "90210" respond to the claim of Jessica Alba on how they treated her
The main secret of the "Chanel" costume of Jackie Kennedy
The main secret of the "Chanel" costume of Jackie Kennedy
Here is why your cat bites the toes in bed, according to the veterinarians
Here is why your cat bites the toes in bed, according to the veterinarians