Various, Elvis Presley, Paul Anka, Connie Francis, Lloyd Price, The Platters, Sam Cooke, Maurice Williams, Brook Benton, Buddy Holly, The Drifters, Eddie Cochran, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ritchie Valens, Ricky Nelson, The Coasters, Pat Boone, Duane Eddy, Chuck Berry, Neil Sedaka, The Shirelles, Everly Brothers, Dion & The Belmonts

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.