Top 5 Groups
 

Who are your favorite top 5 "groups" from the early 60's, mid/late 60's and 70's?

Early 60's: 4 Seasons, Drifters, Everly Brothers, Dion & the Belmonts, Jan & Dean

Mid/Late 60's: Beatles, Temptations, CCR, Rolling Stones, Monkees

70's: Chicago, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, Grand Funk Railroad, 3 Dog Night

Hard to pick groups, eliminates too many great solo artists, but will try.

60's: The Supremes; Four Seasons; Four Tops

70's: The Stones (always and forever); CCR; Doobie Brothers; Janis Joplin & The Holding Company; The Who; Velvet Underground

If I include the 80s (hard for me not to do so):

The Cure, The Call, The Clash; Eurythmics; Genesis; Police; U-2; INXS and many, many more

Top Five Groups -

Beatles
Hollies
Byrds
Rascals
Spoonful

60s
Beatles
Moby Grape
Buffalo Springfield
Young Rascals
Allman Bros

Dee, there was no Janis Joplin & the Holding Co. in the 70s. :)

70s
Eagles
Doobies
Mott the Hoople
NRBQ
Bad Co

Well, Janis died in 1970, so decided to make her late 60s/early 70s (was too lazy to type late 60s). Sides, only way I could mention her was to add The Holding Company. Killed me to not say Jimi.

Early 60s
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Everly Brothers
The Ventures
Roy Orbison
Sam Cooke

Mid Sixties
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Dave Clark Five
Kinks
The Who

Late Sixties
The Beatles
Cream
Led Zepplin
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Doors

1970s
??????? There was music in the 1970s????????

60's - 4 seasons and Everly Brothers.

Late 60's - Beatles and Temptations.

70's - Chicago and Eagles.

I knew the Rascals, back when they played on "The Barge" in Westhampton beach on LI.

Rascals' original lineup—Felix Cavaliere, Gene Cornish, Eddie Brigati and Dino Danelli

The club was literally a barge the owners built a club on top of and these guys were regulars there, lived nearby in cabins on the beach and they were always hanging out on the beach in the daytime. I think '65-'70 it was there until it moved to NJ.

You can see the porthole over Felix's head in pic below

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They went their separate ways in the early 70's, finally reuniting for one night in May of 1997 when
Steven Van Zandt inducted them into the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In 2010 for only the second time in 40 years, The Rascals once again reunited for one night and took to the stage at Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Grill.



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The 1960's. The Beatles
The 1970's. The Eagles
The 1980's. Prince
The 1990's. Mariah Carry
The 2000's. Nelly
The 2010's. Bon Jovi

The Beatles
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
Grand Funk
Uriah Heep

This is really hard since I had to dispose of 4,000 record albums when I moved to TV three years ago. My first concert was Vanilla Fudge in 1968 in St. Petersburg the week after they appeared on Ed Sullivan.

I saw the Allman Bros in 1969 at a club in St. Petersburg 2 months before the release of their first album. They were opening for a band called 'Cat Mother & the All Night News Boys', who were a one hit wonder but did have the claim to fame that Jimi Hendrix produced their debut album.

My current favorites are Kings of Leon and Muse.

The Beatles
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
Eagles
Journey
CSNY
Journey
Kansas
Pink Floyd
The Who

Those are my top ten .Yes there was music in th 70's ;;; in fact for me it was the best decade for music!!

Actually, the Eagles, the Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominoes, the Cars and Steely Dan were all in the 70s.

One of the problems with a list like this is that a lot of bands were successful over multiple eras. For example, Led Zepplin was formed in the late 60s and continued to produce great music through 1980.

Early 60’s:
The Belmonts-after splitting with Dion, they a had a bunch of medium-sized but great hits. Check out their album “Carnival Of Hits”.
The Ronettes-They didn’t have a lot of hits, but “Be My Baby” is one of the all-time greats.
The Drifters
Late 60’s:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones-did their best work in the 60’s
The Moody Blues-overlap into the early 70’s
Simon & Garfunkel-maybe not technically a “group”, but must be included.
The Byrds
Traffic
Jefferson Airplane-Airplane only-no Starship
70’s:
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band-still great today.
The Eagles
Pink Floyd
Steely Dan
The Starland Vocal Band-Yikes!!!!

Don't Forget The Funk!
 

Every artist listed so far is a wonderful part of our American music heritage and I love 'em all!

I am fortunate to have made my career in the music business and have played tunes by most of the above....and below. The first tune I ever played live with a band was Louie, Louie.

As a kid in Hawaii I played mostly "Surf" music then British and then moved to the east coast and played "Beach" music, then Southern Rock and then lots of R&B.

Some of my R&B and Funk favorites are:

Wilson Pickett
Major Lance
Aretha Franklin
Otis Redding
Al Green
The
Ray Charles
The Righteous Bros.
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
The Ohio Players
Gladys Knight
The Commodores
Earth, Wind & Fire
James Brown
Sly Stone
The Isley Bros.
Smokey Robinson
The Bar-Kays
Tyrone Davis
Gene Chandler
Sam & Dave
The Spinners
Rufus
Tower Of Power
The Neville Bros.
Jeffrey Osborne & LTD

Anyone think a good R&B band would be a hit in The Villages?

One could argue that the answer for the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, and 2010's is The Rolling Stones.

Why would you say 60s was junk, then mention the Stones, Bee Gees, Kinks, and Association as good.music? All of their best work was done in the 60s.

Uriah jeep, now that came out of the woodwork, great group

Beatles Stats
 

Beatles were "just OK"?

Your opinion is respected but, I (and apparently, the rest of the world) beg to differ...................


1.6 billion
The number of Beatles records (singles) sold in the U.S.

600 million
The number of Beatles albums sold worldwide.

177 million
The number of albums sold in the U.S.

11.4 million
Number of copies 1, the re-mastered catalog of Beatles hits released in November 2000, sold between 2000 and 2010. It was the best-selling album of the decade.

4.5 million
Number of copies of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold in the UK.

2.3 million
The number of copies The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) box set sold in its first five days of release in 2009 in North America, Japan and the UK.

855,473
Number of copies of The Beatles Anthology Volume 1 that were sold in the first week of release in November 1995.

3,000+
Number of times "Yesterday" has been covered. It's the most-covered song of all time.

1,278
Number of weeks Beatles material spent on Billboard charts.

174
Number of weeks Beatles albums spent at No. 1. in the UK.

132
Number of weeks Beatles albums spent at No. 1. in the U.S.

45
Number of weeks the Beatles topped both the album and single charts in the UK.

42 seconds
Length of time the last chord lasts in "A Day in the Life."

32
Number of No. 1 hits penned by Paul McCartney.

30
Number of weeks Please Please Me spent at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart.

26
Number of No. 1 hits written by John Lennon.

20
Number of No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This is the most of any band.

19
Number of weeks "Hey Jude" spent on the charts. It's the longest any Beatles song spent on the charts.

19
Number of albums that reached No. 1 on the charts in the U.S.

18
Number of songs that include a woman's name in the title.

17
Number of singles that reached No. 1 in the UK.

15
Number of singles that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

15
Number of albums that reached No. 1 on the charts in the UK.

13
Number of albums certified as multi-platinum in the U.S.

7
Number of Grammy Awards the Beatles won.

2
Number of times the Beatles knocked themselves out of the No. 1 position on the UK chart.

Just Can't Help It....
 

"George Harrison and especially Ringo Starr were tag a long's."??????

Harrison was one of the most tasteful guitarists to ever live and I don't care what kind of chops you have, nobody ever played as inventively perfect as Ringo.

The Beatles' success was always due to the unparalleled collaboration of all 4....and, of course, George Martin.

IMHO

I liked the jeep

What? No love for the Grateful Dead?

Except that the biggest selling act in entertainment over each of those decades except the current one was ........

The Beatles.

Yep, they sold more records, CDs, downloads etc. than any other artist in each and every of the past five decades.

True about The Beatles being the biggest seller. They just got better and better. But the Stones are still alive and performing which is amazing on both counts.

In the case of Keith Richards, "alive" is questionable. Their performances as of late are nothing at all like the Rolling Stones that I saw in 1965.

Ron Wood really doesn't add much to the line up. When they got rid of Brian (understandable under the circumstances) they lost the heart and soul of the original group. They then picked up Mick Taylor who is a brilliant guitarist. Taylor added something new to the group, but also changed the original feeling and concept. When he quit they picked up Wood who was mostly a bassist and is a mediocre guitarist. These days Keef tries to play some of the lead parts that Brian and Mick Taylor played, but it's obvious that he is a rhythm guitarist. Same thing for Woody. Much of the music in their live shows is being played by professional hired guns and back up singers. They have a hired bass player, keyboardist, a horn section, back up singers and I think a guitar player or two that you may or may not see.

Today, Wyman is no longer with them. Charlie mostly tours Europe with his jazz band and shows up for a paycheck. Mick is desperately trying to hold onto his youth with all that idiotic dancing and Keith wanders around like a zombie.

Their musicianship is terrible these days, not that it was ever all that great. They're not really a band as much as they are an event. Kind of like a carnival sideshow. People go to see them to say that they've seen the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stones tribute bands to a better job of performing their material than the originals do.

Now I suppose that Paul and Ringo could find a couple of other guys and perform Beatles songs under the name the Beatles, but it really wouldn't be The Beatles then, would it?

Stones
 

It is amazing. They are really the animal essence of rock n' roll....wild and free...and not necessarily sober! I've always loved them.

The Stones are the world's perfect garage band but playing the world's biggest garage. (I do think Jagger could calm down a bit)

While the Beatles were singing I Want To Hold Your Hand the Stones were singing Let's Spend The Night Together.

You act as if 8 hrs..44 min..42 sec is a walk in the park.

Their first album 'Please Please Me' was 14 songs with 11 originals. Their second album 'Meet the Beatles' was 12 songs and all but one was original. The cover songs were mostly filler because unlike in America, in the UK they didn't like to release albums with only 10 songs. Also, if you notice most of those songs were in the 2 minute or less range, they could of easily strung them out to 3 minutes or more. Instead they gave us many more great songs with far less fill.

Now this is getting silly. "...they were not at all popular" (in England). Only until they became wildly popular.

Listen to them again and see if you might have "missed" anything. :)

BTW, Fleetwood Mac is certainly one of the greatest bands ever and Mick Fleetwood is a monster player but he's no Ringo. Creative band chemistry is at the heart of the Beatles' success. If Ringo and Mick had traded places, every tune would have been completely different. it's likely that neither band would have made the same impression on the world.

I'm thankful we had them both!