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Artist: The Starliters
Artist: The Starliters
Artist: Starlite
Artist: Starlits
Artist: The Starlite Orchestra
Artist: Starlite Desperation
Performing glamorous indie pop inspired by the foremost classical guitar combustion's of the late '70s, the Starlite Desperation also presented the rawness alike the heaviest of garage rock squads. Their notability was firstly due for not using a bass player, therefore offering flammable sounds based upon a two-guitar spectacle. Starlite formed... [+] Read More
Artist: Jackie & the Starlites
Jackie and the Starlites were another one-hit wonder doo wop group -- "Valerie," cut for Bobby Robinson's Fury label in 1960, being their one hit; it was cut at the tail end of the doo wop era and, indeed, may have been among the first songs in that style to appeal as an "oldie" in style. It barely brushed the national charts, but it was... [+] Read More
Artist: The Starlite Singers
Artist: The Starlite Wranglers
Artist: Starlite Chamber Ensemble
Artist: Starlite Vocal Ensemble
Artist: Tammy Faye Starlite
Artist: Joey Dee & the Starliters
Artist: Doug Poindexter
Doug Poindexter and the Starlite Wranglers were only the fifth or sixth white act ever signed to Sun Records. Heavily influenced by his idol Hank Williams, Poindexter was pure country-in fact, pure hillbilly. The Starlite Wranglers circa 1953/54 consisted of Bill Black on stand-up bass, Tommy Sealey on fiddle, Millard Yow playing steel guitar,... [+] Read More
Artist: Joey Dee
Joey Dee led the house band at New York's Peppermint Lounge, immortalizing the joint in his 1961 charttopper "Peppermint Twist." Born Joseph DiNicola in Passaic, NJ, Dee teamed with veteran producer Henry Glover to cut "Peppermint Twist" for Roulette, and the huge hit led to a starring role in the film Hey, Let's Twist. Most of Dee's hits,... [+] Read More
Artist: Joan Jones
One of the few folks who can actually claim to be a native Los Angeleno, Joan Jones was born and raised in the heart of Hollywood. She was even the trumpet-playing mascot at the infamous Hollywood High. And those were the L.A. days, when clubs like the Whisky-a-Go-Go, the Starwood, Gazzarri's, and Madame Wong's were kicking, while artists like X... [+] Read More
Artist: Chromeflies
The Chromeflies were an idea that had been tossed around by Michael and Andrew Nehra for a few years before it became a reality. Both musicians were on the road with Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, backing up the legendary Detroit singer while alternately planning their eventual parting of ways. That became a reality when fellow Michigan... [+] Read More
Artist: Neil Diamond
In a career that began in the 1960s, Neil Diamond became a major recording artist, an internationally successful touring act, and a songwriter whose compositions produced hits for himself and others. His earliest recognition, in fact, came as a songwriter associated with the Brill Building era of Tin Pan Alley in the early '60s. But he soon... [+] Read More
Artist: Thad Cockrell
North Carolina-native Thad Cockrell, known for his themes of heartbreak (his self-professed goal is to put "the hurt back in country"), released his debut album, Stack of Dreams, in 2001 with backing group the Starlite Country Band.
The son of a Baptist minister, Thad grew up primarily in Tampa, FL. His family was not musical; in fact, he... [+] Read More
Artist: David Ball
David Ball was born in Rock Hill, SC, on July 9, 1953. The son of a Baptist minister father and musician mother, Ball started playing the ukulele as a young boy, but by age 12 had switched to guitar. After high school, he and hometown friends Walter Hyatt and Champ Hood moved to Nashville, where they scraped out a living as Uncle Walt's Band.... [+] Read More
Artist: Ted Nash
A swing-oriented reedman and studio player who was active from the 1940s to the 1980s, Ted Nash is best known for his association with Les Brown and should not be confused with his nephew Ted Nash (who was named after his uncle and was born in L.A. in 1959). Both play the tenor saxophone, but while the younger Nash has embraced hard bop and post... [+] Read More
Artist: Ernie Maresca
Ernie Maresca was a fairly successful songwriter in the New York doo wop/rock & roll scene in the first half of the 1960s, most known for writing several of Dion's biggest hits (by himself or in collaboration with Dion): "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer," "Lovers Who Wander," "A Lover's Prayer," and "Donna the Prima Donna." He also wrote for a... [+] Read More
Artist: Rebecca Kilgore
As an interpreter of classic American popular songs from the 1930s and 1940s, vocalist and guitarist Rebecca Kilgore helped revive the hits of yesterday for modern-era jazz audiences. Born in Waltham, MA, in 1949, she relocated to Portland, OR, at the age of 30, beginning her music career fronting an area swing band dubbed the Wholly Cats and... [+] Read More
Artist: Mr. Wright
Like his EL Records counterparts Momus and Louis Philippe, Mr. Wright has discovered that carefully executed and lovingly crafted orchestral (let's not forget romantic) pop music never really lost it's audience. Also, like Momus and Philippe, Wright (aka Kevin Wright), landed himself a new job in the stylish Euro-Jet-Set-neo-pop world of Le... [+] Read More
