Various, Percy Sledge, Maurice Williams, Sunny & The Sunliners, Joe Barry, Otis Redding, Rene & Rene, Brenda & The Tabulations, Peaches & Herb, Mitty Collier, Jimmy Clanton, Wilson Pickett, Dion & The Belmonts, Los Bravos, The Showmen, Del Shannon, The Dovells, Buster Brown, Peaches & Herb, Jay & The Techniques, Huey "Piano" Smith

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.