Scottish Rock Band The Bay City Rollers It was the 1970s and a lot of rock bands or single rock singers were springing up all over the place to the delight and adoration of many teenage girls. One band that had great voices and likeable music was The Bay City Rollers. This was a Scottish pop/rock band that had a string of hits in the 1970s and their songs became popular in the U.S. as well. When it came to choosing a name for the band they randomly picked a spot on a map of the U.S. That spot pointed to Bay City, Michigan. The Bay City Rollers consisted of drummer Derek Longmuir, his brother Alan Longmuir on the bass, guitarist Eric Faulkner, singer Leslie McKeown and guitarist Stuart Wood. Their first hit in the U.K. was a cover of the Bobbie …show more content…
Teen fans everywhere were loving them and like their onstage look dressed in calf-length tartan trousers and tartan scarves. In North America they released the album The Bay City Rollers after their song “Saturday Night” hit the number one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album was released in 1975 and included their number one hit and two other popular songs “Bye, Bye, Baby” and “Be My Baby”. Their next hit in the U.S. was “Money Honey” and resulted in their next album in 1976 Rock n’ Roll Love Letter. The album included the hit song, the title song and “I Only Want to Dance With You” among other …show more content…
He was replaced by Ian Mitchell, who was 17 and the first member born outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was from Northern Ireland. Along with Mitchell The Bay City Rollers released another album Dedication in 1976 and had a hit with another cover of a Dusty Springfield song “I Only Want to Be With You”. Two other songs on the album did well – the title song and “Yesterday’s Hero”. The Bay City Rollers became less popular from 1977 to 1979 and their final U.K. hit was “It’s a Game” and a final hit in the U.S. “You Made Me Believe in Magic”. Then in 1978 Alan Longmuir returned to the band and they released the album Strangers in the Wind. The album had songs like the title song, “Another Rainy Day in New York City” and “Where Will I Be Now”. The album came out at the same time as their U.S. Saturday morning TV show made its debut The Krofft Superstar Hour, later on renamed The Bay City Rollers Show on
The band was formed in 1965 in Sans Francisco with a mix of sounds from several different genres of music such as Folk, Bluegrass, Jazz, Country, Blues, and Physicadellic Rock. The original members were as follows: Jerry Garcia doing lead guitar and vocals, Bob Weir was the youngest member of the band playing rhythm guitar and vocals. Ron "Pigpin" McKernan played keyboards, Phill Lesh has always been the basist. Bill Kreutzmann played drums at first but was followed by Micky Heart in 1967 as a seccond drummer. When Pigpin died at the tender age of 27 of liver failure, Keith Godchaux joined on as the new keyboardist, with him he brought his wife Donna Jean to help with backup vocals. When the couple left the band in 1979 they were replaced by Brent Mayland. Mayland played with the band until
In Rock- The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Yorke provides a chronological approach to rock and roll from 1877- 1974. Although it is not extremely detailed, a general overview of each year’s music is presented. Throughout the book, many descriptive summaries of individual artists may be found along with classic pictures.
When he entered his teens, Holley and fellow guitarist Bob Montgomery began performing everywhere they could. (Drape) Between car lots, grocery stores, school auditoriums, skate rinks, and more; there was never a shortage of places to perform. (Drape) With a surge of new performers, people came from miles around to see the entertainment that the Hub City, Lubbock, Texas, ...
The couple wrote over 100 chart hits together, including the Chiffons' "One Fine Day," the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday," the Drifters' "Up on the Roof," the Cookies' "Chains" (later covered by the Beatles), Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman" and the Crystals' controversial "He Hit Me (and It Felt like a Kiss)."
The members included Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Larry Van Kriedt, Dave Evans, and Colin Burgess. The people who wanted the most success out of them were Australia’s legendary roadie Ray Arnold and his partner Alan Kissack. The two men convinced “Chequers” entertainment manager Gene Pierson to let the band play at the popular Sydney nightclub in 1973. Colin Burgess was the first member fired, and several bassists and drummers passed through the band the next year. The Young brothers decided that Evans was not a suitable frontman for the group, because they felt he was more of a glam rocker. It was Gene Pierson who arranged for Bon Scott from “Fraternity” to join them as the lead singer. (Paul Sutcliffe, Pg. 34, P.2)
York. As a child he was a member of the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty
The famous British rock band became very popular with the young social groups that took part in the hippie movement. They began dedicating their songs to change.
Another founding member of the band was Bev Bevan. He was born Beverly Bevan in Birmingham, U.K. on November 25, 1945. He formed his first professional band, called Denny Lain and the Diplomats, in 1963.He retired from music to become a furniture salesman, but then joined Carl Wayne and the Vikings. He then later joined The Move and helped create ELO. (Petersdorff 4)
I Get Around was a number on hit in May of 1964. This was the first of many Beach Boys number of hits.
By the spring of 1929, Cab was married to Wenonah Conacher, had enough money and was leading his own band The Alabamians, who played at the Sunset (Rollins
Johnny cash, the man in black is a country legend, him and the Tennessee two, made a name for themselves in the mid 50's. There orignal songs where gospil, but when trying to get a record deal was turned down for the gospil ,but then played a song Johnny cash wrote. The first hit was "Cry,Cry,Cry", other hits were " i walk the line","folsom Prison blues" , and others such as " man in black"" Hey Porter", and " get rhythm". Johnny cash marride his early wife Vivian Liberto in 1954, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee.His band The Tennessee two consited of Luther Perkins and bass player Marshall Grant. They were known for there sound, people say they had a "boom-chik-a-Boom" sound like a train. Johnny wore dark clothing which got him the name "man in black", and hestarted his performanced with the simple entrance "Hello im Johnny Cash". {wikipedia}
In early 1970 the band Queen was formed. Freddie Mercury on vocals, Brian May on guitar, Roger Taylor on drums and Mike Gross on bass. They had known each other for years. All living in the town of Kensington in Britain, sometimes even living together. Brian and Roger belonged to a band called Smile, and Freddie was a very talented vocalsit playing for the band Ibex. They decided to join forces, to better themselves, and their chances of obtaining fame and fortune. After a few months with only a few gigs Mike Gross left the band. He was replaced by Barry Mitchell, who only played a few gigs with them. After a few short months they were looking for their third bass player. Roger, was at a party one night and was introduced to John Deacon, an electronics major at the University of London and a good bass player. The two hit it off, and Deacon became the new member of Queen.
The rise of rock and roll into the limelight is to a large extent attributed to the teenagers of the 1950’s. Early rock music listened to by teenagers during the 1950’s was formed by blending together Rhythm and blues with country music. This kind of ...
The Rolling Stones were described as the voice of teenage rebellion. The huge success of The Stones proved any talented musician can make it in the music