Rock 'N Roll Christmas Beach features several early rock & roll artists performing a variety of holiday favorites. The Beach Boys perform over half the album's songs: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," "Frosty ...
Late-period R&B and vintage 1960s soul never really faded into nostalgia in the coastal towns of the Carolinas, and in time the music and the regional bands that continued to play it generated what became known as "beach music" in the regio...
Personnel: Delbert McClinton (harmonica); The Dells (background vocals).Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.Photographers: Chris Beachley; Billy Vera.Arrangers: Andrew "Mike" Terry; Tom-Tom; Sonny Sanders; Thom Bell; Anthony King; Riley H...
Illustrator: Chris Johnson .Although the late-'80s movie Shag has forever fixed the Carolina beach music scene as an early-'60s phenomenon, there has been a decades-long appreciation for obscure soul, R&B, and blues records along the sou...
Performer include: Jim Quick & The Coastline Band, The Men Of Distinction.Liner Note Author: Mike Farver.Recording information: Bradleyhouse Studios, Quinby, SC; OZ Music, Dunn, NC.Whatever beach music is or isn't (and it seems to ...
Beach music is such an open-ended genre that it essentially ends up being any music that is played in the seaboard dance clubs of the southeast, but the heart and soul of it tends to be a mixture of R&B, soul, and even doo wop from the 1960...
Personnel: Tim Barnes (vocals, guitar); Greg Piccolo (vocals, tenor saxophone); Sugar Ray Norcia (vocals, horns); Lee McBee, Miki Honeycutt (vocals); Ray Jimenez, Tater Britches, Kid Bangham, Alex Schultz, Mike Morgan, Ronnie Earl (guitar);...
Beach Music Hits is an entertaining ten-track, budget-line collection that features such pop-soul classics as the O'Kaysions' "Girl Watcher," Billy Stewart's "Fat Boy," the Impressions' "It's All Right," the Marvelows' "I Do," Leon Haywood'...