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Music and Chart Trivia          The Name Game #1 (Artists' Real Names)        Sixties Quizzes        Before They Were Famous (Artists' Original Occupations)

O.K. people... we've got a group, a sound and a song, now what are we gonna call ourselves? This is, in places, quite bizarre. Exactly why some of these names were chosen is a complete mystery. Everybody now knows them under names such as 'The BeeGees', 'The Beach Boys' or 'The Beatles', but they have all performed under more obscure names at some time earlier in their careers. Who was 'Jet Powers' ? Who started out as 'The Spacemen' ? or 'Tom and Jerry' ? and who thought that a really cool, catchy name for a pop group would be 'The Mars Bars' ? No idea? Neither did I! Well, read on and have a guess at a few more of these (thankfully) obsolete aliases . . .

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 THE FOUR AIMS  THE FOUR TOPS  THE BLUEGENES  THE SWINGING BLUE JEANS
 THE HARMONY CHORDS  THE BACHELORS  THE NIGHTRIDERS / THE CROSSFIRES  THE TURTLES
 THE RIVER ARROWS  THE BAR-KAYS  UNIT FOUR  UNIT FOUR PLUS TWO
 CARL AND THE PASSIONS / THE PENDLETONES  THE BEACH BOYS  THE IMPACTS  THE VENTURES
 JOHNNY AND THE MOONDOGS  THE BEATLES

 THE DETOURS / THE HIGH NUMBERS

 THE WHO
 TOBY TYLER  MARC BOLAN  THE JETS  WAYNE FONTANA & THE MINDBENDERS
 THE JET SET / THE BEEFEATERS  THE BYRDS  JET POWERS  P.J. PROBY
 DAVE DEE AND THE BOSTONS  DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK & TITCH  THE LINC-TONES  THE TOKENS
 THE VERSATILES  THE FIFTH DIMENSION  THE TROGLODYTES  THE TROGGS
 THE FOUR JAYS / THE BLUE JAYS  THE FOURMOST  ELSTON GUNN  BOB DYLAN
 THE TIKIS  HARPERS BIZARRE  THE METROPOLITAN BLUES QUARTET  THE YARDBIRDS
 TONY RIVERS AND THE CASTAWAYS  HARMONY GRASS  THE BLUE CATS / THE RATTLESNAKES  THE BEE GEES
 THE HEARTBEATS  HERMANS HERMITS  PETER NOVAK  PETER NOONE
 THE FOURTONES / THE DELTAS  THE HOLLIES  THE MANN HUGG BLUES BROTHERS  MANFRED MANN
 THE SHERABONS  THE HONEYCOMBS  THE RICK Z COMBO  THE McCOYS
 THE GOLLIWOGS  CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL  THE POQUELLOS  THE SHIRELLES
 THE MARS BARS  GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS  THE ELGINS  THE TEMPTATIONS

 TOMMY SCOTT ( AND THE SENATORS )

 TOM JONES
 JOHNNY ST.CYR  JOHN LEYTON
 THE ORBITS
 JOHNNY AND THE HURRICANES
 THE DEL PHIS / THE VELS  MARTHA REEVES AND THE VANDELLAS
 THE RAVENS  THE KINKS  XYZ  ? AND THE MYSTERIANS
 LOS SONOR  LOS BRAVOS  CHRIS RAVEL ( AND THE RAIDERS )  CHRIS ANDREWS
 DEAN FORD AND THE GAYLORDS  THE MARMALADE  THE BON BONS  THE SHANGRI-LAS
 THE MAVERICKS / PACIFICS  THE MERSEYBEATS  CAESER AND CLEO  SONNY AND CHER
 THE NOMADS  THE MOJOS  THE FRAZERS  THE SPOTNICKS
 THE LIBERATORS  PINKERTONS ASSORTED COLOURS  BONNIE JO MASON  CHER
 THE OUTCASTS  GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP  CASS AND THE CASANOVAS  THE BIG THREE
 THE SUPREMES  RUBY AND THE ROMANTICS  THE SPACEMEN  JOE BROWN AND THE BRUVVERS
 THE 5 CHESTERNUTS / THE DRIFTERS  THE SHADOWS  THE PIONEERS / OUTCASTS / FRANTICS
 THE SMALL FACES
 TOM AND JERRY  SIMON AND GARFUNKEL  THE JAGUARS  THE APPLEJACKS
 THE RHYTHM AND BLUES QUARTET  THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP  THE BEAZERS  CHRIS FARLOWE AND THE THUNDERBIRDS
 THE FLOWERPOT MEN  THE IVY LEAGUE  THE MONARCHS  THEM
 LITTLE JOE COOK  CHRIS FARLOWE  GARY AND THE NITELITES  AMERICAN BREED
 THE LIONEL MORTON FOUR  THE FOUR PENNIES  THE CLIFFTONES  THE FORTUNES
 THE PARAMOUNTS  PROCOL HARUM  ARTIE GARR / TOM GRAPH  ART GARFUNKEL
 THE FIVE CROWNS  THE DRIFTERS  ELMO LEWIS  BRIAN JONES ( ROLLING STONES )
 THE GLENEAGLES  ( LULU AND ) THE LUVVERS  TICO ( AND THE TRIUMPHS )  PAUL SIMON
 THE PRIMETTES  THE SUPREMES  TRUE TAYLOR / JERRY LANDIS / PAUL KANE  PAUL SIMON
 THE WONDER WHO?  THE FOUR SEASONS  THE ROARING SIXTIES  FAMILY ( and also ) THE IVY LEAGUE
 THE KINGFISHERS  FREDDIE AND THE DREAMERS  






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