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15 Oct 1946

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Background

American record producer, arranger, pianist and composer Richard Carpenter The Carpenters who had the 1973 UK No.2 single ‘Yesterday Once More’ and the 1970 US No.1 & UK No.6 single ‘Close To You’. The Carpenters 1972 hit ‘Goodbye to Love’ was one of the first pop ballads to have a fuzz guitar solo and influenced the development of the power ballad.

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Historical Facts

14 Oct 1957

“Wake Up Little Susie” becomes the Everly Brothers’ first #1 hit Harmony singing was a part of rock and roll right from the beginning, but the three- and four-part harmonies of doo-wop, derived from black gospel and blues traditions, would never have given us Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles or the Byrds. To get those groups, you first had to have the Everly Brothers, whose ringing, close-harmony style introduced a […]

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