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The early 1960s saw Seattle become home to a local dance scene built around venues like the Trianon and Parker's. The city also became the major center for recorded popular music in the Pacific Northwest, and had the first American pop hit from the region with the Fleetwoods "Come Softly to Me" in 1959.
This 1916 photo of First Avenue in Seattle shows the Kenneth Hotel just left of center; the building is now replaced by multi-story parking lot. 47°36′10″N 122°20′05″W / 47.602723°N 122.334786°W / 47.602723; -122.334786 ( The Penthouse (Seattle) ) The Penthouse was a jazz club in Seattle , most remembered for John ...
Paul W. Berg [1] (September 24, 1934 – August 4, 2020), known professionally as Pat O'Day, was an American broadcaster and concert promoter in the Pacific Northwest. [2] O'Day was the afternoon drive personality at Seattle's KJR 950 radio station in the 1960s; [3] he would eventually become program director and general manager.
David Eugene Lewis (1938 – March 13, 1998) was an American rock and rhythm & blues (R&B) keyboardist, organist, and vocalist based in Seattle, Washington, US. Peter Blecha accounts his Dave Lewis Combo as "Seattle's first significant African American 1950s rock and roll band" [2] and Lewis himself as "the singularly most significant figure on the Pacific Northwest's nascent rhythm & blues ...
Washington in the United States. The U.S. state of Washington has been home to many popular musicians and several major hotbeds of musical innovation throughout its history. . The largest city in the state, Seattle, is known for being the birthplace of grunge as well as a major contributor to the evolution of punk rock, indie music, folk, and hip h
Scene 1: America, the Mid-1960s. Outside a suburban tract house a nine-year-old girl named Amelia sings a hymn to the stars as inside her mother folds laundry. Her father, a navy pilot named Dodge, emerges from the house in dress whites and indicates to her that it is time for bed.
Scene In Seattle Fine Art Tours Private and Public fine art tours of Seattle's contemporary galleries. S3A: Seattle's Urban Art Association Founded in 2007, s3a is a group of artists and galleries committed to raising awareness of the alternative art scene in Seattle and the Northwest by chronicling and promoting events, artists and venues.
Rock music during the 60s was still largely sung in English, but some bands like Los Mac's and others mentioned above used Spanish for their songs as well. [78] During the 1960s, most of the music produced in Mexico consisted on Spanish-language versions of English-language rock-and-roll hits.