Rock 'n' Roll
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Featuring Artists Who Were At Their Peak
Between 1956 and 1985.




This Week's Featured Artist


Peter, Paul And Mary
who led the Billboard Hot 100 with
"Leaving On A Jet Plane", this week in 1972.

For more about this American classic trio
check out Gary James' interview with
Paul Stookey.


Did You Know?
"Leaving On A Jet Plane" was written by
John Denver and was originally titled
"Babe I Hate To Go".







A

ABBA
Bryan Adams
Air Supply
The Allman Brothers
America
Amboy Dukes
The Angels
The Animals
Paul Anka
The Archies
The Association
Frankie Avalon

B

Bachman-Turner Overdrive
The Band
The Bay City Rollers
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Beau Brummels
The Bee Gees
Chuck Berry
The Big Bopper
Black Sabbath
Blood,Sweat and Tears
Blue Oyster Cult
Blues Magoos
Booker T and The MG's
Pat Boone
Boston
David Bowie
The Box Tops
Bread
James Brown
The Buckinghams
Buffalo Springfield
Jimmy Buffett
The Byrds

C

The Captain and Tennille
The Carpenters
The Chambers Brothers
Harry Chapin
Chubby Checker
Chicago
The Chiffons
Lou Christie
Eric Clapton
The Dave Clark Five
Petula Clark
The Classics IV
The Coasters
Joe Cocker
The Commodores
Sam Cooke
Rita Coolidge
Alice Cooper
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jim Croce
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
The Cowsills
The Cyrkle

D

Danny And The Juniors
Dale and Grace
Bobby Darin
The Spencer Davis Group
Deep Purple
John Denver
Neil Diamond
Dion and the Belmonts
Fats Domino
Donovan
The Doobie Brothers
The Doors
Dr. Hook
The Dovells
Bob Dylan

E

Eagles
The Electric Flag
Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Prunes
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
England Dan & John Ford Coley
The Everly Brothers

F

The Fifth Dimension
Five Americans
Five Man Electrical Band
Roberta Flack
Fleetwood Mac
Foghat
The Four Seasons
The Four Tops
Peter Frampton
Connie Francis
Aretha Franklin
Freddie and The Dreamers
Alan Freed
The Bobby Fuller Four

G

Gale Garnett
Marvin Gaye
The J. Geils Band
Genesis
Bobbie Gentry
Gerry and the Pacemakers
Bobby Goldsboro
Lesley Gore
Grand Funk Railroad
The Grass Roots
The Grateful Dead
Al Green
The Guess Who

H

Bill Haley and his Comets
Hall and Oates
Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds
Harpers Bizarre
Jimi Hendrix
Herman's Hermits
The Hollies
Buddy Holly
Engelbert Humperdinck

I

Janis Ian
Iron Butterfly
The Isley Brothers

J

The Jackson 5
The James Gang
Tommy James and the Shondells
Jan and Dean
Jay and the Americans
Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
Billy Joel
Elton John
Olivia Newton John
Tom Jones
Janis Joplin

K

K.C. And The Sunshine Band
Kansas
Andy Kim
Carole King
The Kingsmen
The Kinks
KISS
Gladys Knight
Billy J. Kramer

L

Led Zeppelin
Brenda Lee
The Left Banke
Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Little River Band
Kenny Loggins
Lobo
The Lovin' Spoonful
Lulu
Lynyrd Skynyrd

M

The Mamas And Papas
Barry Manilow
Manfred Mann
Martha and the Vandellas
The McCoys
Meatloaf
Melanie
The Monkees
The Moody Blues
Van Morrison
Mountain
Anne Murray

N

Johnny Nash
Rick Nelson
Harry Nilsson
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

O

The O'Jays
Oliver
Roy Orbison
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Orleans
The Orlons
Gilbert O'Sullivan
The Outsiders

P

Paul And Paula
Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter and Gordon
Pink Floyd
Bobby Boris Pickett
Wilson Pickett
Gene Pitney
The Platters
Poco
Elvis Presley
Procol Harum
Gary Puckett And The Union Gap

Q

Queen
? And The Mysterians
Quicksilver Messenger Service

R

Rare Earth
The Rationals
Helen Reddy
Otis Redding
Paul Revere And The Raiders
The Righteous Brothers
Johnny Rivers
Tommy Roe
Smokey Robinson
Kenny Rogers
The Rolling Stones
The Ronettes
Linda Ronstadt
Ruby and the Romantics
The Royal Guardsmen
Bobby Rydell
Mitch Ryder

S

Sam And Dave
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Santana
Leo Sayer
Boz Scaggs
Seals and Crofts
The Seeds
Neil Sedaka
Bob Seger
The Shadows of Knight
The Shangri-Las
Del Shannon
Bobby Sherman
The Shirelles
Simon and Garfunkel
Sly and the Family Stone
Sonny and Cher
Spanky and Our Gang
Dusty Springfield
The Stampeders
The Standells
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Rod Stewart
Cat Stevens
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Donna Summer
Supertramp
The Supremes
The Surfaris
Syndicate Of Sound

T

James Taylor
The Temptations
B.J.Thomas
Three Dog Night
Thin Lizzy
Johnny Tillotson
Tiny Tim
Toto
Traffic
The Troggs
Ike and Tina Turner
The Turtles

U

Uriah Heep

V

Ritchie Valens
Vanilla Fudge
Bobby Vee
Village People
Bobby Vinton
The Vogues

W

Dionne Warwick
Jr. Walker
The Walker Brothers
Mary Wells
Wham!
Barry White
The Who
Johnny Winter
Wolfman Jack
Stevie Wonder

Y

Yardbirds
Yes
The Youngbloods
The Young Rascals

Z

Frank Zappa
The Zombies
ZZ Top




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