Ad
related to: famous artists in 1960s and 70s
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The band became famous after playing the Woodstock festival in 1969 and began the '70s with two #1 albums: 1970's "Abraxas" and 1971's "Santana III." In 1998, Santana was inducted into the Rock ...
[70] Robert Lockwood, Jr. 1915 2006 Arkansas Delta blues [71] [72] Cripple Clarence Lofton: 1887* 1957 Tennessee Boogie woogie [71] Eddie Mapp: 1910 1931 Georgia Country blues [73] Sara Martin: 1884 1955 Kentucky Vaudeville blues [74] Lil McClintock: 1883 Unknown: U.S. Country blues [75] Kansas Joe McCoy: 1905 1950 Mississippi Country blues [76 ...
The following is a list of bands and artists that were involved with the British Invasion music phenomenon that occurred between 1964 and 1966 in the United States. (Artists shown in boldface are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.) The Animals [1] [2] The Beatles [3] [4] Cilla Black; Chad & Jeremy; The Dave Clark Five [5] [2] Dave Dee, Dozy ...
Roy Orbison was one of rock's famous artists who wrote ballads of lost love. In the early part of the decade, Elvis Presley continued to score hits. For most of the 60s, Presley mostly released films. Presley decided to get away from films by 1969; his last #1 song on the charts was Suspicious Minds which was released in 1969.
Presley—whose top 1970s hit was "Burning Love" in 1972— ranked among the top artists of the rock era, while Crosby was among the most successful pre-rock era artists. The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison , Janis Joplin , and Jimi Hendrix as well as the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd ...
By the later half of the 1970s, Dolly Parton, a highly successful traditional-minded country artist since the late 1960s, mounted a high-profile campaign to crossover to pop music, culminating in her 1977 hit "Here You Come Again", which peaked at No. 1 country and No. 3 pop. Of her 25 career No. 1 hits, 11 of them came during the 1970s.
2 1960s North American folk rock vocal groups. 3 British folk rock. 4 Celtic rock. ... even if they are not considered primarily folk rock artists. Singer-songwriters