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In 1967, Detroit blues-rock outfit The Woolies had a regional smash hit with the Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love?". [28] Tommy James and the Shondells had several top 40 hits including "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Crimson and Clover". In the late 1960s, two well-known high-energy rock bands emerged from Detroit – the MC5 and Iggy and the ...
In the late 1960s, the psychedelic rock group called SRC (Scot Richard Case) was founded in Detroit, Michigan. The group was well-known for fusing elements of jazz , blues , and rock . Throughout the years they were active, they put out a number of albums, such as Traveler's Tale (1970), Milestones (1969), and SRC (1968).
In 1955, Detroit-native Bill Haley ushered in the rock and roll era with the release of "Rock Around The Clock". [7] Detroit was a center of the 1960s rock scene, with such legendary bands as The Amboy Dukes (featuring guitarist Ted Nugent), The Bob Seger System, ? and the Mysterians, the MC5, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels ("Devil With a ...
In 1983, program director Paul Christy designed a format which played only early album rock, from the 1960s and early 1970s, without current music or any titles from the pop or dance side of Top 40. [12] Another AM station airing classic rock, beginning in 1983, was KRQX in Dallas-Fort Worth. [13] KRQX was co-owned with an album rock station ...
Music has been the dominant feature of Detroit's nightlife since the late 1940s.The metropolitan area boasts two of the top live music venues in the United States. The Pine Knob Music Theatre (formerly DTE Energy Music Theatre), which was the most attended summer venue in the United States in 2005 for the fifteenth consecutive year, while the closed Palace of Auburn Hills ranked twelfth ...
Classic Rock was a 31-volume series issued by Time Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The series spotlighted popular music played on Top 40 radio stations of the mid-to-late-1960s. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Classic Rock" series covered a specific time period, including single years in ...
From the early 1980s onward, the abbreviation AOR transitioned from "album-oriented radio" to "album-oriented rock", meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s. [4] The term is also commonly conflated with "adult-oriented rock", a radio format that also uses the initialism "AOR" and covers not ...
Savage Grace was an American rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in the late 1960s. The band released its self-titled debut album on Reprise in 1970. After moving to Los Angeles the following year, the group released a second album, Savage Grace 2. The band broke up in 1972, reforming in the 1990s until 2004.