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The group started in the mid-to-late 1950s as a high school band in San Luis Obispo, California. [3] They were originally called Gil Serna & The Rockets [4] before changing their name to The Revels in 1959. [citation needed] Although their instrumental style predated the 1961-65 era of surf music, their success came during that period ...
The Wurzels performing live in 2012. The Wurzels are a British scrumpy and Western band from Nailsea, Somerset.Formed in early 1966, the group was originally known as "Adge Cutler & The Wurzels" and featured vocalist Adge Cutler backed by banjo and guitarist Reg Quantrill, accordion player Reg Chant, sousaphone player Brian Walker, and bassist John Macey.
Sixlets A cellophane package of Sixlets. Sixlets are small round candy-coated, chocolate-flavoured candy made by Oak Leaf Confections, a Chocolat Frey company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are often sold in thin cellophane packages that hold them in a tube-like formation. The United States Food and Drug Administration recognized that ...
The Cavaliers formed around 1955 with leader and guitarist Sid Holmes, bassist Lewis Elliott, saxophonist Rob Zeller, drummer Ray Smith, and vocalist Alton Baird. Baird was drafted shortly after the group formed and the band brought in J. Frank Wilson, after his discharge from Goodfellow Air Force Base (San Angelo, Texas) and Sid Holmes's subsequent mental deterioration in 1962.
Although the group did not exist to work on compositions collaboratively, there were six occasions, spread over 36 years, on which at least some members of the group did work together on the same project. On only one of these occasions was the entire Groupe des Six involved; in some others, composers from outside the group also participated.
The membership of the band remained stable until 1986. At that time, tired of the band's extensive touring schedule, Thackery departed to join 'The Assassins' (a part-time "vacation band" he helped found), eventually fronting 'The Drivers' and other groups and to record for Blind Pig Records, and Telarc Records. [1]
One such band was that of Alphonso Trent. [6] Two other important groups out of the Southwest, Kansas City specifically, were Bennie Moten's band and Jay McShann's band. Musicians from the Moten band along with musicians from the Oklahoma City Blue Devils became one of the most influential jazz bands, under the leadership of Count Basie.
By sixteen, Barnet had played on tours with Jean Goldkette's satellite band and was in New York, where he joined Frank Winegar's Pennsylvania Boys on tenor sax. Always restless, by 1931 he had relocated to Hollywood and appeared as a film extra while trying to interest local bandleaders in hot music, which was increasingly unpopular due to the Great Depression.