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The Police
The Police
Recording Group

Music

The Police were an English new wave band formed in London in 1977. The band has won a number of music awards, including six Grammy Awards, and in 2003 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters
3-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

The Pointer Sisters are a R&B recording group, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.

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The Pogues
The Pogues
Recording Group

Music

The Pogues were an English Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone". The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, recording several hit albums and singles.

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The Platters
The Platters
Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

The Platters was an American vocal group. They were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre.

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The Osmonds
The Osmonds
Recording Group

Music

The Osmonds are a family music group who gained their highest profile in the early 1970s. The group consists of siblings who are all members of the Osmond family, a family of musicians from Ogden, Utah, who have been nationally recognized since the 1960s.

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The O'Jays
The O'Jays
Recording Group

Music

The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958. Numerous hits followed through the 1970s and into the 1980s and 1990s, and The O'Jays were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

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The Muppets
The Muppets
Ensemble Cast of Puppet Characters

Television

The Muppets are an ensemble cast of puppet characters known for their self-aware, burlesque, and meta-referential style of variety-sketch comedy. Created by Jim Henson and his wife Jane Henson in 1955, they are the namesake for the Disney media franchise.

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The Monkees
The Monkees
Recording Group

Music

The Monkees have sold more than 75 million records worldwide and had international hits. At their peak in 1967, the band outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined.

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The Masqueraders
Recording Group

Music

The Masqueraders is a recording group, who scored a minor hit in 1968 with "I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else".

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The Marvelettes
The Marvelettes
Recording Group

Music

The Marvelettes was recording group that achieved popularity in the 1960s. The group has received several honors including induction into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, as well as receiving the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

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The Marty Paich Dek-Tette
The Marty Paich Dek-Tette
Recording Group

Music

Marty Paich was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. He came to prominence on the West Coast Jazz scene of the 1950s as both a pianist and a composer. His son David is a founding member of the band Toto.

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The Manhattans
Grammy Award Winner

Music

The Manhattans are a R&B vocal group. Their work includes million-selling songs "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Shining Star". The Manhattans have recorded twelve top 10 R&B hits in the United States charting on the Billboard chart for the first time in 1965.

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The Main Ingredient
The Main Ingredient
Recording Group

Music

The Main Ingredient is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1972 hit song "Everybody Plays the Fool".

Tags: R&B · Harlem, New York · Red Bird Records · RCA Records · Polydor Records · Everybody Plays the Fool · Cuba Gooding Sr. · Billboard Hot 100 · Coca-Cola · Legacy Recordings

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The Magnificents
The Magnificents
Recording Group

Music

The Magnificents are an American doo-wop group from the 1950s. The group's first session in January 1956 yielded the group's only hit single, "Up on the Mountain". Past group members included L. C. Cooke, brother of Sam Cooke.

Tags: Up on the Mountain · Barbara Arrington · L. C. Cooke · Sam Cooke · Ray Ramsey · Doo-Wop · 1950s · Johnny Keyes · The Moonglows · The Rays

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The Lumineers
The Lumineers
Recording Group

Music

The Lumineers are a folk rock band. The founding members are Wesley Schultz (lead vocals, guitar) and Jeremiah Fraites (drums, percussion). Their self-titled first album, has been certified triple platinum in the United States and Canada.

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The LeeVees
The LeeVees
Recording Group

Music

The LeeVees are a rock band featuring Adam Gardner of Guster and Dave Schneider of The Zambonis. Gardner and Schneider thought it would be fun to form another rock band, a Jewish one, that only wrote songs about Hanukkah.

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The Laurence Juber Trio
Recording Group

Music

Laurence Juber is often considered most famous for playing lead guitar in Paul McCartney & Wings from 1978 to 1981, with whom he won a Grammy, he has since had a distinguished career as a solo fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician.

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The Kinks
The Kinks
Recording Group

Music

The Kinks were an English rock band. Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and have gone on to sell over 50 million albums worldwide. In 1990, the original four members of The Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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The Killers
The Killers
5-Time Grammy Award Nominee

Music

The Killers are an American rock band formed in 2001. The Killers are considered one of the biggest rock bands of the 21st century, and the most successful act to ever emerge from Nevada, selling more than 28 million albums.

Tags: Rock

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The Kentucky Headhunters
Recording Group

Music

The Kentucky Headhunters have released eight studio albums, three compilations, and twenty-three singles. In addition, the band has won three Country Music Association awards, an Academy of Country Music award and a Grammy Award.

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The Judds
The Judds
5-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

The Judds were an American country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. The Judds were one of the most successful acts in country music history, winning five Grammy Awards.

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The Jacksons
The Jacksons
Recording Group and Inductee, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Music

Jackson 5 (later known as The Jacksons) are composed of members of the Jackson family. The group was founded in 1965 by Joe Jackson, as well as by brothers Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine, with younger brothers Marlon and Michael joining soon after.

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The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers
Recording Group

Music

The Isley Brothers have had four Top 10 singles on the United States Billboard chart. Thirteen of those albums have been either certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum. The group was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

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The Impressions
The Impressions
Recording Group

Music

The Impressions were an American music group originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel, soul, and R&B.

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The Heights
The Heights
Recording Group

Music

"The Heights" is an American musical drama series that aired on the Fox network from August to November 1992. "The Heights" centers on a fictional band (also called The Heights) made up of mostly middle-class young adults.

Tags: FOX · Television Show · How Do You Talk to an Angel · Capitol Records · Steve Tyrell · Stephanie Tyrell · Barry Coffing · Billboard Hot 100 · Jamie Walters · Pop Rock

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