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Beach music is most closely associated with the style of dance known as the shag, or the Carolina shag, which is also the official state dance of both North Carolina and South Carolina. Recordings with a 4/4 " blues shuffle " rhythmic structure and moderate-to-fast tempo are the most popular music for the shag, and the vast majority of the ...
The Catalinas are an American beach music band from the late 1950s. Since the Catalinas formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, in late 1957, over 60 guitarists, keyboardists, trumpet players, drummers, bass players and singers have been a part of the band. [1] Most have come from communities along the Interstate 77 corridor from Statesville to ...
The band was also a popular attraction in Panama City Beach, Myrtle Beach, and Auburn University. The band (with a shifting cast) continued to do reunion shows into the 2000s. [ citation needed ] On September 16, 2009, the band joined Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band during their concert at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, South Carolina ...
It will be held Saturday, June 1 on the Carolina Beach Boardwalk. Gates open at 10:30 a.m. Music is from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tickets are $35, available at Buy Tickets Here. Children 10 and under are ...
The band, which plays beach music, as well as ‘80s, variety and Sugarcreek songs, performs in North Myrtle Beach for the shag dancing group Society of Stranders, Fat’ Harold’s Beach Club and ...
The group was formed by brothers Harry and Jimmy Deal in the small southern town of Taylorsville, NC, where the band continues to perform over 50 years later.The band is synonymous with the term beach music, a style of rock and roll that started in the late 1940s in the dance clubs in the vicinity of Myrtle Beach on the coast of South Carolina.
During the height of the 1960s “beach music” fad, Columbia musician Mike Tronco led a nine-piece band that shared a stage with James Brown, Gladys Knight and The Drifters.
In addition to local Beach Music classics, the label's compilation collections often include a smattering of nationally-known R&B classics from the mid-1950s through the early 1980s, especially those with swing-style back-beats suitable for the Carolina shag style of dancing. Ripete Records was founded by Marion Carter and Pete Smolen in 1979.