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Jan and Dean

Index Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). [1]

197 relations: A cappella, Acetate disc, Alternative rock, American Broadcasting Company, American burlesque, American Civil War, American football, Ampex, Anti-establishment, Aphasia, Artie Kornfeld, Artists and repertoire, Aura Lea, Baby Talk (Jan and Dean song), Barbara Eden, Baroque music, Barry Keenan, Batting cage, Bel Air, Los Angeles, Bergen, Beverly Hills, California, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Billy J. Kramer, Billy Ward and his Dominoes, Biographical film, Bobby Darin, Brain damage, Brian Wilson, Bruce & Terry, Bruce Davison, Bruce Johnston, California Sound, Camarillo, California, Canned Heat, Carnival of Sound, Cashbox (magazine), CBS, Challenge Records (1950s), Charles and Ray Eames, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Chuck Berry, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Records, Concept album, Conscription, Danny & the Juniors, Dave Marsh, Dead Man's Curve (song), ..., Deadman's Curve, Demo (music), Dennis Wilson, Dick Clark, Dobie Gray, Doo-wop, Doré Records, Doris Day, Dot Records, Drag City (song), Duet, Easy Come, Easy Go (unfinished film), Electronovision, Emerson Community Charter School, Engineer, Ernie Freeman, Fabian Forte, Falsetto, Fort Ord, Gary Zekley, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Get a Job (song), Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, Grammy Hall of Fame, Graphic designer, Hal Blaine, Harmony, Harry Nilsson, Herb Alpert, Hollywood, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Palladium, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Howard Hughes, Hughes H-4 Hercules, I Adore Him, I Found a Girl (Jan and Dean song), Jack Jones (singer), James Brolin, James Brown, Jennie Lee (dancer), Jennie Lee (song), Jerry Wallace, Jill Gibson, Jim Pewter, Johnny Crawford, Keith Moon, Kim Fowley, Kinescope, Las Vegas, Lee Hazlewood, Lesley Gore, Liberty Records, Linda Ronstadt, London Records, Los Angeles, Lou Adler, Manhattan, Marvin Gaye, Mike Deasy, Mike Love, Mojo (magazine), Moon Mullican, Murray the K, Music industry, Nancy Sinatra, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Oldies, Organ donation, P. F. Sloan, Papa Doo Run Run, Paralysis, Paramount Pictures, Patent, Peter Brown (actor), Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phil Spector, Psychedelic music, Psychedelic rock, Punk rock, Ready Steady Who, Record chart, Record producer, Recording studio, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rhino Entertainment, Rhythm and blues, Richard Hatch (actor), Richie Unterberger, Ride the Wild Surf, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock music, Rod McKuen, Roger Christian (songwriter), Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood), Royal Teens, Sandy Nelson, Santa Barbara, California, Screen Gems, Sheb Wooley, Shelley Fabares, Sound recording and reproduction, Stanford University, Steve Barri, Steve Martin, Substance use disorder, Sundazed Records, Sunset Strip, Surf City (song), Surf music, T.A.M.I. Show, Tab Hunter, Television film, The Angels (American group), The Beach Boys, The Blossoms, The Cadillacs, The Dick Clark Show, The Fantastic Baggys, The Jack Benny Program, The Killer Shrews, The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena), The Mamas & the Papas, The Miracles, The Rolling Stones, The Six Teens, The Supremes, The Ventures, The Who, The Yellow Balloon (band), United Artists, United Artists Records, United States Army Reserve, University High School (Los Angeles), University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Vegetables (song), Warner Bros. Records, West Hollywood, California, Westwood, Los Angeles, White Whale Records, Wolfman Jack, YMCA, You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy. Expand index (147 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Acetate disc

An acetate disc is a type of phonograph (gramophone) record, a mechanical sound storage medium, widely used from the 1930s to the late 1950s for recording and broadcast purposes and still in limited use today.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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American burlesque

American burlesque is a genre of variety show.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ampex

Ampex is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff.

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Anti-establishment

An anti-establishment view or belief is one which stands in opposition to the conventional social, political, and economic principles of a society.

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Aphasia

Aphasia is an inability to comprehend and formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions.

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Artie Kornfeld

Arthur Lawrence "Artie" Kornfeld (born September 9, 1942) is an American musician, record producer, and music executive.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Aura Lea

"Aura Lea" (sometimes spelled "Aura Lee") is an American Civil War song about a maiden.

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Baby Talk (Jan and Dean song)

"Baby Talk" is a 1959 song by Jan and Dean which was a Top 10 hit for them on Dore Records.

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Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead, August 23, 1931) is an American film, stage, and television actress, and singer, best known for her starring role of "Jeannie" in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Barry Keenan

Barry Keenan (born 1940) is an American businessman, best known as the mastermind behind the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr. At the age of 21, Keenan was already successful in the business world, as well as being the youngest member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange.

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Batting cage

A batting cage (or tunnel) is an enclosed area for baseball or softball players to practice the skill of batting.

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Bel Air, Los Angeles

Bel Air (or Bel-Air) is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billy J. Kramer

William Howard Ashton, better known by the stage name Billy J. Kramer (born 19 August 1943 in Bootle, Lancashire) is an English pop singer.

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Billy Ward and his Dominoes

Billy Ward and his Dominoes were an African-American R&B vocal group.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television.

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Brain damage

Brain damage or brain injury (BI) is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells.

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Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Bruce & Terry

Bruce & Terry were an American musical duo consisting of Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher.

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Bruce Davison

Bruce Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director of television, film, and theatre.

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Bruce Johnston

Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin on June 27, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as a member of the Beach Boys.

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California Sound

The California Sound is a popular music aesthetic that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the 1960s.

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Camarillo, California

Camarillo is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California.

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Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Carnival of Sound

Carnival of Sound is the last studio album by the American rock band Jan and Dean.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Challenge Records (1950s)

Challenge Records was founded in Los Angeles in 1957 by cowboy singer Gene Autry and former Columbia Records A&R representative Joe Johnson.

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Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American design married couple who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture.

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Chatsworth, Los Angeles

Chatsworth is a neighborhood in the northwestern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Danny & the Juniors

Danny & the Juniors are a doo-wop and rock and roll vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally consisting of Danny Rapp, Dave White, Frank Maffei and Joe Terranova.

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Dave Marsh

Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950) is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host.

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Dead Man's Curve (song)

"Dead Man's Curve" is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean whose lyrics detail a teen street race gone awry.

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Deadman's Curve

Deadman's Curve is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical film based on the musical careers of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Dennis Wilson

Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Dobie Gray

Dobie Gray (born Lawrence Darrow Brown; July 26, 1940 &ndash; December 6, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Doré Records

Doré Records, pronounced "dorrie", was a record label founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1958 by Lew (or Lou) Bedell and his cousin Herb Newman.

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Doris Day

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.

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Dot Records

Dot Records is an American record label founded by Randy Wood that was active between 1950 and 1979.

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Drag City (song)

"Drag City" is a 1963 song by Jan and Dean, written by Jan Berry, Roger Christian, and Brian Wilson.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Easy Come, Easy Go (unfinished film)

Easy Come, Easy Go was a proposed film starring Jan and Dean which was abandoned in 1965 due to a train crash.

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Electronovision

Electronovision was a process used by producer/entrepreneur H. William "Bill" Sargent, Jr.

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Emerson Community Charter School

Ralph Waldo Emerson Community Charter School (formerly Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School and commonly referred to as Emerson) is a charter middle school in the Los Angeles Unified School District in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Ernie Freeman

Ernest Aaron "Ernie" Freeman (August 16, 1922 &ndash; May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger.

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Fabian Forte

Fabiano Anthony Forte (born February 6, 1943), professionally known as Fabian, is an American singer and actor.

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Falsetto

Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.

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Fort Ord

Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action.

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Gary Zekley

Alan Gary Zekley (January 4, 1943 – June 19, 1996) was a West Coast record producer and songwriter associated with 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s bands and songs in the bubblegum, rock and roll, sunshine pop, and surf genres.

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Gerry and the Pacemakers

Gerry and the Pacemakers is an English beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene.

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Get a Job (song)

"Get a Job" is a song by the Silhouettes released in November 1957.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design.

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Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929) is an American drummer and session musician.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), usually credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s.

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Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Palladium

The Hollywood Palladium is a theater located at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

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Hughes H-4 Hercules

The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company.

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I Adore Him

"I Adore Him" is a song written by Artie Kornfeld and Jan Berry and performed by The Angels.

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I Found a Girl (Jan and Dean song)

"I Found a Girl" is a song written by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri, and recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean.

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Jack Jones (singer)

John Allan Jones (born January 14, 1938) known professionally as Jack Jones, is an American actor and jazz and pop singer, popular during the 1960s.

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James Brolin

James Brolin (born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin, July 18, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director, best known for his roles in film and television, including sitcoms and soap operas.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jennie Lee (dancer)

Jennie Lee best known as "The Bazoom Girl", "The Burlesque Version of Jayne Mansfield", and "Miss 44 and Plenty More" (born Virginia Lee Hicks; October 23, 1928 – March 24, 1990) was an American stripper, burlesque entertainer, pin-up model, Union activist, and a minor role movie actress, who performed several striptease acts in nightclubs during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Jennie Lee (song)

"Jennie Lee" is a song whose music was composed and written by Jan Berry and Arnie Ginsburg, which was recorded by Jan and Arnie.

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Jerry Wallace

Jerry Wallace (December 15, 1928 &ndash; May 5, 2008) was an American country and pop singer.

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Jill Gibson

Jill Gibson (born June 18, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor.

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Jim Pewter

An authority on Oldies but Goodies in the pop, rock and blues fields, Jim Pewter was host of the daily radio program The Jim Pewter Show, heard worldwide on Armed Forces Radio and Television Service for thirty-plus years, and his show was the first music show to be broadcast to our troops serving in Desert Storm.

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Johnny Crawford

John Ernest Crawford (born March 26, 1946) is an American character actor, singer, and musician.

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Keith Moon

Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who.

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Kim Fowley

Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, singer and musician.

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Kinescope

Kinescope, shortened to kine, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Lee Hazlewood

Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s.

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Lesley Gore

Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), known professionally as Lesley Gore, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist.

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Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label.

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Linda Ronstadt

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American retired popular music singer known for singing in a wide range of genres including rock, country, jazz, light opera, and Latin.

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London Records

London Records is a record label in the U.K. that marketed records in the U.S, Canada, and Latin America from 1947 to 1979 before becoming semi-independent.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lou Adler

Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, music executive, talent manager, songwriter, film director, film producer, and co-owner of the famous Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mike Deasy

Michael William Deasy (born February 4, 1941) is an American rock and jazz guitarist.

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Mike Love

Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Moon Mullican

Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican and "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players", was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Murray the K

Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 &ndash; February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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Music industry

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.

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Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress.

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, an American country rock band, has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966.

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Oldies

Oldies is a radio format that concentrates on rock and roll and pop music from the latter half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1970s or 1980s.

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Organ donation

Organ donation is when a person allows an organ of theirs to be removed, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or after death with the assent of the next of kin.

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P. F. Sloan

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Papa Doo Run Run

Papa Doo Run Run is a band from Cupertino, California, United States, that specializes in covers of songs from the heyday of surf music in the 1960s.

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Paralysis

Paralysis is a loss of muscle function for one or more muscles.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

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Peter Brown (actor)

Pierre Lind de Lappe (October 5, 1935 &ndash; March 21, 2016), known professionally as Peter Brown, was an American actor best known for his role as young Deputy Johnny McKay opposite John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop in the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Lawman and as Texas Ranger Chad Cooper on NBC's Laredo from 1965 to 1967.

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Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Gamma Delta (ΦΓΔ), commonly known as FIJI or Phi Gam), is a social fraternity with more than 158 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848. Along with Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta forms a half of the Jefferson Duo. Since its founding in 1848, the fraternity has initiated more than 170,000 brothers. The nickname FIJI is used commonly by the fraternity due to Phi Gamma Delta bylaws that limit the use of the Greek letters.

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Phi Sigma Kappa

Phi Sigma Kappa (ΦΣΚ), colloquially known as Phi Sig or PSK, is a men's social and academic fraternity with approximately 74 active chapters and colonies in North America.

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Phil Spector

Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Ready Steady Who

Ready Steady Who is a 7" EP by The Who, released only in the UK on 11 November 1966.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Hatch (actor)

Richard Lawrence Hatch (May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017) was an American actor, writer and producer.

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Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger (born 1962) is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.

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Ride the Wild Surf

Ride the Wild Surf is a romantic drama in the beach party style.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rod McKuen

Rodney Marvin "Rod" McKuen (April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and actor.

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Roger Christian (songwriter)

Roger "Hot Dog Rog" Christian (July 3, 1934 – July 11, 1991) was a radio personality and lyricist who co-wrote several songs for The Beach Boys, mostly about cars, including "Ballad of Ole' Betsy", "Car Crazy Cutie", "Cherry, Cherry Coupe", "Don’t Worry Baby", "In the Parkin' Lot", "Little Deuce Coupe", "No-Go Showboat", "Shut Down", and "Spirit of America", all with Brian Wilson.

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Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood)

The Roxy Theatre (often just the Roxy) is a nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, owned by Lou Adler and his son, Nic, who operates it.

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Royal Teens

The Royal Teens was a New Jersey rock and roll band that formed in 1956, which was composed of Bob Gaudio on piano, Tom Austin on drums, Billy Dalton on guitar, and Billy Crandall on saxophone.

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Sandy Nelson

Sander L. Nelson (born December 1, 1938) is an American drummer.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Spanish for "Saint Barbara") is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U.S. state of California.

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Screen Gems

Screen Gems, Inc. (stylized as SCREEN GEMS) is an American film production and distribution studio that is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Sheb Wooley

Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater." He played Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller, in the film High Noon; played Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales; and also had a co-starring role as scout Pete Nolan in the television series Rawhide. Wooley is also credited as the voice actor who produced the Wilhelm scream sound effect.

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Shelley Fabares

Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steve Barri

Steve Barri (born Steven Barry Lipkin in Brooklyn, New York on February 23, 1942) is an American songwriter and record producer.

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Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.

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Substance use disorder

A substance use disorder (SUD), also known as a drug use disorder, is a condition in which the use of one or more substances leads to a clinically significant impairment or distress.

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Sundazed Records

Sundazed Music is an American independent record label based in Coxsackie, New York.

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Sunset Strip

Sunset Strip is the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California, United States.

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Surf City (song)

"Surf City" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Jan Berry about a fictitious surf spot where there are "two girls for every boy." It was first recorded and made popular by the American duo Jan and Dean in 1963, and their single became the first surf song to become a national number-one hit.

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Surf music

Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.

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T.A.M.I. Show

T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures.

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Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931) is an American actor, pop singer, film producer, and author.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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The Angels (American group)

The Angels are an American girl group, best known for their 1963 No.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Blossoms

The Blossoms are an American girl-group that originated from California.

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The Cadillacs

The Cadillacs were an American rock and roll and doo-wop group from Harlem, New York, active from 1953 to 1962.

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The Dick Clark Show

The Dick Clark Show (also known as Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show) was an American musical variety show broadcast weekly in the United States on the ABC television network 7:30-8 PM (Eastern Time) on Saturdays from February 15, 1958, through September 10, 1960, sponsored (except for the first two shows) by Beechnut Gum.

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The Fantastic Baggys

The Fantastic Baggys were an American surf and hot rod group, created by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri.

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The Jack Benny Program

The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.

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The Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews is a 1959 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon, directed by Ray Kellogg, that stars James Best, Ingrid Goude and Ken Curtis.

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The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)

"The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" is a song written by Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean.

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The Mamas & the Papas

The Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian-American folk rock vocal group who recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968.

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Six Teens

The Six Teens were an American pop group from Los Angeles, California.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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The Ventures

The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Yellow Balloon (band)

The Yellow Balloon was an American sunshine pop band, formed in Los Angeles in 1967 by songwriter and producer Gary Zekley.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks.

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United States Army Reserve

The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is the federal reserve force of the United States Army.

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University High School (Los Angeles)

University High School, commonly known as "Uni", is a secondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, near the border of Santa Monica.

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University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (UC Irvine School of Medicine or UCI School of Medicine) is an LCME accredited medical school, co-located in Orange County's cities of Irvine on the University of California, Irvine campus and Orange at the UC Irvine Medical Center.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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Vegetables (song)

"Vegetables" (also spelled "Vega-Tables") is a song written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for American rock band the Beach Boys, released as the second track on their 1967 album Smiley Smile.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Westwood, Los Angeles

Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California.

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White Whale Records

White Whale Records was an American independent record label, founded in 1965 by Ted Feigin and Lee Lasseff in Los Angeles, California, and probably best known as the record label of The Turtles and a handful of one-hit wonder bands.

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Wolfman Jack

Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995), was an American disc jockey.

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YMCA

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), often simply called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.

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You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy

"You Really Know How to Hurt a Guy" is a song whose music was composed by Jan Berry, Jill Gibson, and Roger Christian, which was recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Dean

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