Various, The Righteous Brothers, The Shirelles, Frankie Avalon, The Tune Weavers, The Duprees, Johnny Ace, Chuck Berry, The Isley Brothers, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, The Olympics

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.

San Francisco Psychedelia

Ballroom bands who stretched blues and folk into twenty-minute jams, pressed before anyone edited them down.