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Beach. Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, and to a lesser extent, beach pop, is a regional genre of music in the United States which developed from rock / R&B and pop music of the 1950s and 1960s. Beach music is most closely associated with the style of dance known as the shag, or the Carolina shag, which is also the official ...
Soul/R&B. The Beach music classic "Stay" by Lancaster's Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. James Brown 's (buried in Aiken County) soul and funk song "I Got You (I Feel Good)" was #3 on the Hot 100 in 1965, and #1 on the Rhythm and Blues Singles. Greenville's Peabo Bryson 's R&B song "A Whole New World ...
The band were formed as The Medallions in 1962, adding the "Swingin'" in 1965; [1] possibly as a tribute to the Swingin' Travelers, an R&B group popular in South Carolina in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [citation needed] In 1967, Brent Fortson and Steve Caldwell left the band and with six members of The Tassles out of North Carolina formed ...
During the height of the 1960s “beach music” fad, Columbia musician Mike Tronco led a nine-piece band that shared a stage with James Brown, Gladys Knight and The Drifters.
Harry Deal and the Galaxies. Harry Deal and the Galaxies is a rock and roll band formed in Taylorsville, North Carolina, United States, in 1959. They are most famous for playing a style of music known as beach music, which began in the 1940s in dance clubs of South Carolina beach towns such as Myrtle Beach .
1955–2001. Labels. Cadence Records, MGM Records, Columbia Records, Rendezvous, Triune, Wave, Bluewater. Ocie Lee Smith (June 21, 1932 – November 23, 2001), known professionally as O. C. Smith, was an American singer. His recording of "Little Green Apples" went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 and sold over one million records.
94.9 the Surf described its music format as "Beach, Boogie and Blues". The music was categorized as rhythmic oldies but included much more variety than the typical radio station. Many songs were from the 1950s, and the station's focus was beach music, a style made popular on the South Carolina coast. Personalities included Billy Smith, Ted Bell ...
Beach Music is Pat Conroy 's novel about Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter Leah after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War -era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the 20th century. It was published in 1995.