Best known for his work in collaboration with director Tim Burton composer Danny Elfman created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary film music bringing his talents to a dark fantasy world populated by superheroes monsters and f…

b. Kenneth Gordy, 15 March 1964, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Gordy was the son of Berry Gordy, the head of Motown Records. Nepotism was not an immediate factor in his career, as he was signed to Motown as a soloist without his father's knowledge. Using t…

Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs were IT as far as mid-'60s Texas rock & roll goes. "Woolly Bully" alone marks them for canonization, but many of their other songs are the equal of that celebrated trash-rock masterpiece. Frankly salacious tunes like "Li…

One of the leading cover groups of the mid-50s the Diamonds adapted current RB hits into pop gold of their own Hailing from Toronto the Canadian quartet consisting of Ted Kowalski Phil Leavitt Bill Reed and Dave Somerville signed with Mercury in 1955…