Madeline Bell was a singer in which pop group of the 1960s and 70s?
"US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart than the original. In 1968 Bell sang background and duet vocals on a number of Serge Gainsbourg songs, including ""Comic Strip"", ""Ford Mustang"" and ""Bloody Jack"". She also contributed backing vocals on the Rolling Stones song ""You Can't Always Get What You Want"". Bell then joined contemporary pop combo Blue Mink, with whom she had a number of Top 20 hits with Philips Records in the UK, including ""Melting Pot"", ""Our World"", ""Randy"", ""Banner Man"", ""Good Morning Freedom"", ""Sunday"", ""By The Devil I Was Tempted"" and ""Stay With Me"". Before joining Blue Mink in late"
"Madeline Bell Madeline Bell (born July 23, 1942) is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the UK during the 1960s, having arrived from the US in the gospel show ""Black Nativity"" in 1962, with the vocal group Bradford Singers. Bell was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. She worked as a session singer, most notably backing Dusty Springfield, and can be found on early Donna Summer material as well. Her first major solo hit was a cover version of Dee Dee Warwick's single ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"", which performed better on the"
"Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Kay Garner (as one of the Ladybirds). The bass part was played by Russ Stableford and Clem Cattini played drums. Four further Top 20 hits followed, ""Rainbow Valley"", ""A Day Without Love"" (both 1968), ""One Road"" and ""Bringing on Back the Good Times"" (both 1969). At the end of that year, they released the album, ""The Everlasting Love Affair"". The group became frustrated at being treated like teen idols, unable to hear themselves on stage because of the constant screaming and at being pigeonholed as a ""pop group"". All the A-sides featured heavy orchestral and"
"formed on the West Coast of the USA in the mid-1960s and came to the fore as the first post-war baby-boomers reached the age of majority in the ""Summer of Love"" of 1967. The Monterey Pop Festival was a major landmark of that year, which was associated with ""flowerpower"", psychedelia, opposition to the Vietnam war and the inventive music and flowing, colourful fashions of, among others, Jimi Hendrix, the Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane and the British group, The Beatles, whose album, ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", is said to have caused the guru of psychedelia, Timothy Leary,"
"Fleming. She worked with Kiki Dee and Lesley Duncan. In 1976 Bell sang backing vocals on ""We Can't Go on Meeting Like This"", the second album by the band Hummingbird. In 1975 she appeared on ""Sunny Side of the Street"" for Bryn Haworth. She also joined the French disco group Space, providing lead vocals on two of their albums. One of the songs she provided lead vocals on was ""Save Your Love For Me"" from 1978, which charted high in many countries. She also provided backing vocals for another French artist; Cerrone. Madeline also appears on Giorgio Moroder's 1979 album,"
"also provided occasional backup vocals on recordings for singer Mark Lindsay when his original group Instant Joy featuring Tony Peluso was unavailable, and had also worked briefly with The Carpenters on their first two albums before the Bahler brothers once again went their separate ways by the mid '70s. The Love Generation The Love Generation was an American pop rock band from the 1960s. The band was together from 1967 to 1969. The Love Generation was founded by brothers John Bahler and Tom Bahler. The group was active from 1967 to 1969. John and Tom were vocalists in the Imperial"
"pictures"". The Shangri-Las The Shangri-Las were an American pop girl group of the 1960s. Between 1964 and 1966 they charted with teen melodramas, and remain especially known for their hits ""Leader of the Pack"", ""Remember (Walking in the Sand)"" and ""Give Him a Great Big Kiss."" The group was formed at Andrew Jackson High School in Cambria Heights, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City, in 1963. They were two sets of sisters: Mary Weiss (lead singer) (born 28 December 1948) and Elizabeth ""Betty"" Weiss (born 1946), and identical twins Marguerite ""Marge"" Ganser (4 February 1948–28 July 1996) and Mary"
"Labelle Labelle is an American all-female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia/Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing their name to The Blue Belles (later Bluebelles). The founding members were Patti LaBelle (formerly Patricia Holt), Cindy Birdsong, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash. As The Bluebelles, and later Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, the group found success with ballads in the doo-wop genre, most notably ""Down the Aisle"
"The Love Generation The Love Generation was an American pop rock band from the 1960s. The band was together from 1967 to 1969. The Love Generation was founded by brothers John Bahler and Tom Bahler. The group was active from 1967 to 1969. John and Tom were vocalists in the Imperial Records stable; they were part of the Ron Hicklin Singers. Two of the songs from The Love Generation — ""Together (Havin' a Ball)"" and ""Let the Good Times In"" — were used in the pilot episode of ""The Partridge Family"". The Love Generation provided main vocals (instead of David"
"UK. In 1964, they appeared in the film, ""Get Yourself a College Girl"", with 1960s groups such as The Dave Clark Five and The Animals. However, their international tours did little to enlarge the popularity of the group in America, where they had no hit records. They continued to do well for some years in Las Vegas, thanks to their energetic stage shows. Freddie Bell died, aged 76, in 2008. The final surviving member, Jerry Mayo died, also aged 76, on June 10, 2011. Freddie Bell and the Bellboys Freddie Bell and the Bellboys were an American vocal group, influential"
"some of the most popular music of all time. A self-taught musician, Khalis' signature sound can be heard on the bands unforgettable horn lines, bass, synthesizer and vocals. He has written and produced many of the bands iconic songs including ""Celebration"", ""Cherish"", ""Jungle Boogie"", ""Summer Madness"", and ""Open Sesame"". The band has earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits and 31 gold and platinum albums to date. Ronald Bell (musician) Ronald ""Khalis"" Bell, (born November 1, 1951) is an American saxophonist, composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, singer, and a co-founding"
"with pop vocalists such as Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, and Nat King Cole, as well as jazz-oriented vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald and Keely Smith. Many of these singers were also involved in the ""less swinging"" vocal pop music of this period. Swingin' pop remained popular into the mid-1960s, becoming one current of the ""easy listening"" genre including Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Ray Conniff, and Henry Mancini. Big band jazz made a comeback as well. The Stan Kenton and Woody Herman bands maintained their popularity during lean years of the late 1940s and beyond, making"
"the Top 40 in six separate decades. In 2006, their most recent release became their ninth album to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard 200. Over the years, the act has performed in a variety of genres, including doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul. The group has gone through several lineups, ranging from a quartet to a trio to a sextet; they are currently a duo. The original group consisted of the three elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Bell Isley: O'Kelly Jr., Rudolph and Ronald, who formed in"
"especially with ""I Love How You Love Me"". The Sensations, the Chiffons, the Angels, and the Orlons were also prominent in the early 1960s. In early fall 1963 one-hit wonder the Jaynetts' ""Sally Go 'Round the Roses"" achieved a mysterious sound quite unlike that of any other girl group. In 1964, the one-hit wonder group the Murmaids took David Gates' ""Popsicles and Icicles"" to the top 3 in January, the Carefrees' ""We Love You Beatles"" scraped the top 40 in April, and the Jewels' ""Opportunity"" was a small hit in December. The girl group sound also extended to existing acts"
"no live recordings and only seven tracks were recorded by the actual group. The other three tracks were by Gus Backus, Chris Montez and Little Anthony & The Imperials. To cash in on ""Look in My Eyes"", End threw together an album titled ""There's Our Song Again"", a compilation of previously recorded material. The Chantels switched record labels a few more times. Although personnel changed throughout the 1960s, the constants in the group were Jackie Landry, Sonia Goring and Renee Minus. This line-up, plus Arlene Smith, recorded a one-off single for RCA in 1970. Smith fronted a new group called"
"of the leading pop groups of the time including the Searchers, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Dave Clark Five, the Bachelors, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles. The song imagined the various artists singing about being conscripted, or ""called up"" into the British Army, although actual conscription had ended in 1960. The single climbed to number 3 in the UK Singles Chart. As an example, the song ""Bits and Pieces"" by The Dave Clark Five was parodied as ""Boots and Blisters"". They then followed this parody theme with two more hit singles ""Pop Go the Workers"" (1965) and ""Merrie Gentle"
"Wallasey, a club catering to the contemporary folk scene. Another regular performer there was a young musician from nearby Birkenhead named Declan MacManus who later found fame as Elvis Costello. Like Costello and many other British musicians at the time, Bell’s music changed as the 1970s progressed and the punk revolution exploded. After moving to Bristol and forming a punk/new wave band, recording vocals for a solo album by Martin Barre of Jethro Tull and doing some session singing in London, Bell toured with the Leeds-based Goth band, The March Violets, in the early 1980s. In 1983, Bell began singing"
"The group faded in the US but became wildly popular in Europe, where they toured twice. Although, it was Joe Cook, who helped cultivate the group, it was Madara and White who spear-headed the group's success. Butler eventually settled in Sweden, where she married Svenne Hedlund, and formed the duo Svenne & Lotta, that became a famous act throughout Scandinavia during the 1970s and 1980s. The Sherrys The Sherrys were an American girl group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active briefly in the 1960s. The group came together in 1961 around Philadelphia singer Little Joe Cook, former lead singer of The Thrillers;"
"The Originals (band) The Originals, often called ""Motown's best-kept secret,"" were a successful Motown R&B and soul group during the late 1960s and the 1970s, most notable for the hits ""Baby, I'm For Real,"" ""The Bells,"" and the disco classic ""Down To Love Town."" Formed in 1966, the group originally consisted of baritone singer Freddie Gorman, tenor/falsetto Walter Gaines, and tenors C. P. Spencer and Hank Dixon (and briefly Joe Stubbs). Ty Hunter replaced Spencer when he left to go solo in the early 1970s. They had all previously sung in other Detroit groups, Spencer having been an original member"
"The Pop Group The Pop Group are an English band formed in Bristol in 1977 by vocalist Mark Stewart, guitarist John Waddington, bassist Simon Underwood, guitarist/saxophonist Gareth Sager, and drummer Bruce Smith. Their work in the late 1970s crossed diverse musical influences including funk, free jazz and dub with radical politics and the avant-garde, helping to pioneer post-punk music. The group released two albums, ""Y"" (1979) and ""For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?"" (1980), and the acclaimed singles ""She Is Beyond Good and Evil"" (1979) and ""We Are All Prostitutes"" (1979), before breaking up in 1981. Its"
"The Hollies The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style. The Hollies became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 weeks on the UK singles charts during the 1960s, the 9th highest of any artist of the decade) and into the mid 1970s. It was formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in 1962 as a Merseybeat-type music group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns north of there. Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills &"
"half of the decade, with many of its top 40 hits peaking in the spring and summer of 1967, especially just before the Summer of Love. Popular acts include the Mamas & the Papas, the Turtles, and the Association. Other groups, like the Millennium, Sagittarius, and the Yellow Balloon were less successful but gained a cult following years later with albums like ""Begin"" (Millennium, 1968) and ""Present Tense"" (Sagittarius, 1968) highly sought-after on the collectors’ market. Sunshine pop originated in the American state of California in the mid to late-1960s, beginning as an outgrowth of the California Sound and folk"
"the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, on their Wall of One-Hit Wonders. In July 2007, a concert honoring Hamlin was held at the Pearson Park Amphitheater in Anaheim, California. Rosie Hamlin Rosalie ""Rosie"" Méndez Hamlin (July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was the frontwoman of the group Rosie and the Originals, best known for the 1960 song ""Angel Baby"", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Hamlin was only fifteen years old. She would formally retire from the music industry in 1963 after starting a family with her husband"
"The Bangles The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. They scored several hit singles during the 1980s. The band's hits include ""Walk Like an Egyptian"", ""Billboard"" magazine's number-one single of 1987; two number-two hits, ""Manic Monday"" and ""A Hazy Shade of Winter""; and their 1989 number-one single ""Eternal Flame"". Their classic line-up consisted of Michael Steele on bass and vocals, founding members Susanna Hoffs on vocals and rhythm guitar, Debbi Peterson on drums and vocals, and Vicki Peterson on lead guitar and vocals. The band currently consists of Hoffs, Debbi Peterson and Vicki"
"in 1960, by becoming the first group in ""history"" to place 3 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 at the ""same time"": Finger Poppin' Time"", ""Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go"" and ""The Twist"" in mid-July, 1960. The Midnighters held this record until it was finally broken by The Beatles in 1964. Credited to Hank Ballard and the Midnighters unless stated otherwise The Midnighters The Midnighters were an American R&B group from Detroit, Michigan. They were an influential group in the 1950s and early 1960s, with many R&B hit records. They were also notable for launching the career of lead"
"her daughter's live performances during her time on ""The X Factor"". On 29 August 2017, her daughter Alexandra announced the death of the singer. Melissa Bell (singer) Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell (5 March 1964 – 28 August 2017) was an English singer. From 1993 to 1996, Bell was one of the lead singers of British R&B act Soul II Soul, with whom she released a single titled ""Wish"". She also created her own band called Soul Explosion, which started in 1999. Bell also worked with Liza Minnelli, Whitney Houston, and Stevie Wonder. A native of London, Bell was of African,"
"Rosie Hamlin Rosalie ""Rosie"" Méndez Hamlin (July 21, 1945 – March 30, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter who was the frontwoman of the group Rosie and the Originals, best known for the 1960 song ""Angel Baby"", which became a Top 40 hit in 1961 when Hamlin was only fifteen years old. She would formally retire from the music industry in 1963 after starting a family with her husband and guitarist, Noah Tafolla. Hamlin performed several revival concerts until 2002, before retiring from live performances due to advanced fibromyalgia. Hamlin's ""Angel Baby"" was covered by several artists, including Linda"
"Pops"" (1966), while continuing to work the cabaret circuit, as they do internationally to this day. In 1967, the group released the single ""Lazy Fat People"", a satirical song written by Pete Townshend of The Who. In 1974 they toured South Africa with Petula Clark. By 1977 CBS Records had signed the group, bringing a resurgence in popularity, with ""Live in Trouble"" reaching number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. It was their first hit for over nine years. ""Angelo"" was just one song parodied on ""Live in Trouble"". Their 1978 release ""A Taste of Aggro"", which parodied ""Rivers of"
"The Third Rail (band) The Third Rail was an American pop/rock group made up of studio musicians briefly popular in the 1960s. The group had three members: Arthur Resnick, Kris Resnick (Artie's wife), and Joey Levine. Artie had spent years writing Brill Building pop songs, including ""Under the Boardwalk"" by The Drifters and ""Good Lovin'"" by The Rascals. Levine had played in local bands in New York City and was still in his teens when the group first recorded together. They only did one live show together, in Cincinnati, though they recorded several singles and a full-length album. In 1967,"
"The 5th Dimension The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire includes pop, R&B, soul, jazz, light opera and Broadway—the melange was coined as ""Champagne Soul"". Formed as The Versatiles in late 1965, the group changed its name to the hipper ""The 5th Dimension"" by 1966. They became well-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for their popular hits: ""Up, Up and Away"", ""Stoned Soul Picnic"", ""Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"", ""Wedding Bell Blues"", ""Never My Love"", ""One Less Bell to Answer"", ""(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All"", and"
"that ""The Pop Group of ""Y"" were not interested in either shaking their fists at authority or in announcing their boredom and dejection. They wanted to re-mystify, not de-mystify, to combat the stupidities and atrocities of the world with new forms of fascination."" The Pop Group The Pop Group are an English band formed in Bristol in 1977 by vocalist Mark Stewart, guitarist John Waddington, bassist Simon Underwood, guitarist/saxophonist Gareth Sager, and drummer Bruce Smith. Their work in the late 1970s crossed diverse musical influences including funk, free jazz and dub with radical politics and the avant-garde, helping to pioneer"
"1960s when 'hippie' music started becoming popular. Mike Parker left the band in 1967 and the band dissolved about a year later. In the decades to follow, ""Take a Look at Me"", ""I Told You Once Before"", ""Alice Designs"" and ""You Don't Need Me"", have appeared on at least a dozen compilation CDs that are still available on the market, such as ""Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 7"". Their songs still appear on radio station play lists and a following has even migrated to clubs and radio stations in Germany in recent years. In the summer of 2001, the band"
"during sports events. 1967's ""Jimmy Mack"" inspired what Reeves later said was a ""virtual legend"" of the name of the song ""Jimmy Mack."" ""For a detailed listing of albums and singles, see Martha and the Vandellas discography"" The following singles reached the Top Forty on the US or UK Pop Singles Charts: Martha and the Vandellas Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were an American all-female vocal group formed in 1957. The group achieved fame in the 1960s with Motown. Selected members of the group were inducted into the Rock and"