Various, Wilson Pickett, Arthur Conley, Percy Sledge, Ben E. King, King Curtis & The Kingpins, The Capitols, Deon Jackson, Love, The Doors, Sandie Shaw, Frankie Lymon, Tommy James, Neil Diamond, The McCoys, Van Morrison, The Four Seasons, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Ronnie Hawkins, The Buckinghams, The Rivieras, J.J. Jackson, The Searchers, Jimmie Rodgers, Essex

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.