1. First Jukebox: installed at Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco, November 23, 1899
2. First group on American Bandstand: The Chordettes, 1956
3. First song to be broadcast on BBC radio One (the pop music station): Flowers in the Rain," The Move, 1967
4. First national broadcast of American Bandstand: August 5, 1957
5. First all-rock radio station: WHB, Kansas City, 1958
6. First Rolling Stones TV appearance: Thank Your Lucky Stars, June 7, 1963
7. First Ready Steady Go broadcast in Britain: August 9, 1963 (last broadcast, December 23, 1966)
8. First British pirate radio broadcast: Radio Caroline, March 28, 1964

Origins of 11 Band Names

Alice Cooper
Supposedly from an Ouija board reading that revealed that Vincent Furnier, the band's lead singer, was actually the reincarnation of a strange, seventeenth-
century witch, Alice Cooper.
The Beatles
In honor of The Crickets.
Buffalo Springfield
From a steamroller, not an airplane, as commonly thought.
The Champs
They recorded for Gene Autry's Challenge label. Autry named them after his movie horse, Champion.
The Hollies
After Buddy Holly Jethro Tull
From the eighteenth-century inventor of the seed drill.
Led Zeppelin
From a joke made by The Who's John Entwistle, who proposed that Jimmy Page's new group would go over like the world's largest lead balloon-a lead Zeppelin.
The Lovin' Spoonful
From the old blues lyric, "My baby loves me 'bout a lovin' spoonful."
Pink Floyd
In honor of the Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Steely Dan
From a dildo in William Burrough's The Naked Lunch.
Three Dog Night
From an Australian aboriginal term for an especially cold evening: They bed down with their dogs, adding more animals as the weather grows harsher.  A three-dog night is the coldest of the year.

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1. The Cowsills
2. The Carpenters
3. The Osmonds
4. Every Mother's Son
5. Seals and Crofts
6. John Denver
7. It's a Beautiful Day
8. The Seekers
9. Zager and Evans
10. Bread
11. ABBA
12. The Hudson Brothers
13. The Cyrkle
14. The Babys
15. Firefall
16. Art Garfunkel

15 Artists Who Were on Apple Records

1. Badfinger (The Iveys)
2. The Beatles
3. The Black Dyke Mills Band
4. Brute Force
5. The Elastic Oz Band
6. Elephant's Memory
7. George Harrison
8. Chris Hodge
9. Mary Hopkin
10. Hot Chocolate
11. John Lennon
12. Jackie Lomax
13. Paul McCartney
14. The Modern Jazz Quartet
15. David Peel

1. "Book of Love," The Monotones; based on the melody to a fifties Pepsodent commercial.

2. "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)," The New Seekers; followed the Coca-Cola commercial word for word, note for note.

3. "The Jolly Green Giant," The Kingsmen; based, in hilarious fashion, on the vegetables commercial, with the band's instinct for frat rock raunch transforming the giant into the world's largest horny human.

4. "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)," The T-Bones; a mid-sixties Alka Seltzer commercial with a sufficiently mnemonic melody to become one of the era's more memorable instrumental smashes.

The 15 Greatest Rock and Roll Bassists

1. James Jamerson (Motown Records)
2. Aston Barret (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
3. Duck Dunn (Booker T and the MG's)
4. Mark Geddes (The Crytycs)
5. Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone)
6. John Entwistle (The Who)
7. Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones)
8. Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
9. Garry Tallent (The E Street Band)
10. Tommy Cogbill (The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)
11. Bootsy Collins (Funkadelic, James Brown, etc.)
12. Rick Danko (The Band)
13. Douglas Burow (The Blind Dog Blues Band)
14. John McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
15. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)

11 Famous Songs About Touring