Dick Clark, Johnnie Ray, The Platters, Little Richard, The Coasters, Buddy Holly, The Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Everly Brothers, Connie Francis, Dion, Neil Sedaka, Paul & Paula, Jan & Dean, Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher, The Mamas & The Papas, The Turtles, The Young Rascals, The Fifth Dimension, The Jackson 5, Rod Stewart, Jim Croce, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Terry Jacks, Linda Ronstadt, Captain And Tennille, Samantha Sang, Robert John, Pure Prairie League

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.