His Orchestra; Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes; Hilltoppers; Isley
Brothers; Johnny Maddox and The Rhythmasters; Les Baxter His
Chorus and Orchestra; Mighty Clouds of Joy; Mitch Miller and his
Orchestra and Chorus; Nat "King" Cole and the Four Knights; Nelson
Riddle and His Orchestra; Perez Prado and His Orchestra; Russ Morgan
and His Orchestra; Somethin' Smith & The Redheads; Sunnysiders;
Sweet Inspirations; Voices of Walter Schumann
1956: Blue Stars; Bobbettes; Cadets; Chantels; Cyril Stapleton and His
Orchestra; Del-Vikings; Diamonds; Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra; Four
Freshmen; Four Seasons; Four Voices; Gadabouts; G-Clefs; Gene
Vincent and His Blue Caps; Helmut Zacharias and His Magic Violins;
Highlights; Jayhawks; Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group; Lou Busch
and His Orchestra; Rover Boys; Six Teens; Tarriers; Teen Queens;
Turbans; Vibrations
1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets; Buddy Knox and the Rhythm Orchids;
Champs; Charles McDevitt Skiffle Group; Danny and the Juniors; Dubs;
Fireballs; Four Esquires; Hollywood Flames; Impressions; Jimmy Bowen
with the Rhythm Orchids; Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra; Jive Bombers; Joe
Bennett and the Sparkletones; Kingston Trio; Lee Andrews and the
Hearts; Little Anthony and the Imperials; Little Joe and The Thrillers;
Mar-Keys; Mello-Tones; Osmonds; Owen Bradley Quintet; Ralph
Marterie and His Orchestra; Rays; Shepherd Sisters; Smokey Robinson
and the Miracles; Spinners; Techniques; Terry Gilkyson and The Easy
Riders; Tune Weavers; Victor Young and His Singing Strings; Will Glahé
and His Orchestra
1958: Applejacks; Aquatones; Bee Gees; Boots Brown and his Blockbusters;Contours; Crescendos; Crests; Danleers; Dicky Doo and the Don'ts;Dion and the Belmonts; Eddie Platt and His Orchestra; Elegants;
Fleetwoods; Four Preps; Gone All Stars; Jamies; Joey Dee and the
Starliters; John Fred and His Playboy Band; Kingsmen; Kirby Stone
Four; Link Wray & His Ray Men; Moe Koffman Quartette; Monotones;
Nu Tornados; O'Jays; Olympics; Pastels; Paul Revere and the Raiders;
Pets; Playmates; Poni-tails; Quin-Tones; Raymond Lefevre and his
Orchestra; Reg Owen and His Orchestra; Royal Teens; Royaltones;
Shadows; Shirelles; Silhouettes; Sister Sledge; Teddy Bears; Tokens;
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra; Voxpoppers
1959: Annette with the Afterbeats; Beatles; Bell Notes; Bill Black's Combo;
Chris Barber's Jazz Band; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Dovells; Ernie
Fields Orchestra; Falcons; Fiestas; Fireflies; Gerry and the Pacemakers;
Impalas; Islanders; Johnny and The Hurricanes; Johnny Kidd and the
Pirates; Mark IV; Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs; Mickey Mozart
Quintet; Mystics; Nutty Squirrels; Ohio Players; Phil Phillips with The
Twilights; Quaker City Boys; Revels; Robert Maxwell; His Harp and
Orchestra; Rocco Granata and the International Quintet; Rock-A-Teens;
Ronettes; Skyliners; Supremes; Swingin' Blue Jeans; Tavares; Tempos;
Tremeloes; Ventures; Virtues; Wailers
1960: Al Brown's Tunetoppers; Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra; Brothers
Four; Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders; Chiffons; Chi-Lites; Danté
and the Evergreens; Demensions; Don Costa and his Orchestra;
Fendermen; Freddie and the Dreamers; Hank Ballard and The
Midnighters; Henry Mancini and His Orchestra; Hollywood Argyles;
Intruders; Ivy Three; Kathy Young with The Innocents; Lettermen; Little
Dippers; Marvelettes; Miracles; Monty Kelly and His Orchestra;
Paradons; Percy Faith and His Orchestra; Rosie and The Originals;
Safaris; Shells; Temptations; Tobin Mathews & Co.; Tommy James and
the Shondells
1961: Al Caiola and His Orchestra; Angels; B.Bumble & The Stingers; BeachBoys; Blue Jays; Blues Incorporated; Bob Moore and His Orchestra;
Booker T. and the MG's; Castells; Cathy Jean and The Roommates;
Chimes; Cleftones; Corsairs; Crystals; Dave Brubeck Quartet; Dave
Clark Five; Don Shirley Trio; Donnie and the Dreamers; Dreamlovers;
Duals; Echoes; Edsels; Flares; Golden Earring; Halos; Jarmels; Jay and
the Americans; Jive Five; Kentucky Colonels; Little Caesar and the
Romans; Manhattans; Marathons; Marcels; New Christy Minstrels; Patti
LaBelle and the Blue Belles; Philip Upchurch Combo; Ramrods;
Regents; Rochell and The Candles; Searchers; Shep and the Limelites;
Starlets; Stereos; String-A-Longs; Temptations (different group than the
1960 one); Velvets
1962: Animals; Billy Joe & The Checkmates;
Bloodstone; Bobby "Boris" Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers; Bobby Gregg
and His Friends; Cookies; David Rose and His Orchestra; Dillards;
Duprees; Exciters; Guess Who; Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass;
Hollies; Ikettes; Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen; Les Cooper and the Soul
Rockers; Little Joey and The Flips; Majors; Marketts; Martha and the
Vandellas; Orlons; Persuasions; Rolling Stones; Ronnie and the Hi-Lites;
Routers; Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs; Sensations; Sherrys; Status
Quo; Surfaris; Toots and the Maytals; Tornadoes; Turtles; Volume's;
Whispers
1963: Barbarians; Barry and the Tamerlanes; Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas;Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans; Bob Marley and the Wailers; Busters;Butterfield Blues Band; Caravelles; Cascades; Chantay's; Chieftains;Classics; Dartells; Dixiebelles; Earls; Easybeats; Essex; Garnet Mimmsand the Enchanters; Gentrys; Glencoves; Harper's Bizarre; Herman'sHermits; Holy Modal Rounders; Jaynetts; Jim Kweskin Jug Band; JoeHarnell and His Orchestra; John Mayall's Bluesbreakers; Kinks; Merseybeats; Murmaids; Pastel Six; Pixies Three; Raindrops; Ran-Dells; Randy & The Rainbows; Rebels; Righteous Brothers; Rocky Fellers; Rooftop Singers; Ruby and The Romantics; Secrets; Skatalites; Spencer Davis Group; Styx; Sunny & The Sunglows; Them; Tom Glazer and The
Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus; Toys; Trashmen; Tymes; Vince Guaraldi
Trio; Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders; Yardbirds; Zombies
1964: Bachelors; Barry and the Remains; Beau Brummels; Blues Magoos;
Byrds; Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band; Carefrees; Charlatans;
Chartbusters; Delfonics; Devotions; Dixie Cups; Gary Lewis and the
Playboys; Hondells; Honeycombs; Ides of March; Jelly Beans; Jr. Walker
and the All Stars; Kool and the Gang; Ladysmith Black Mambazo; Larks;
Main Ingredient; Manfred Mann; Moody Blues; Mothers of Invention;
Nashville Teens; Newbeats; Patty & The Emblems; Premiers; Pyramids;
Reflections; Rip Chords; Rivieras; Ronny & The Daytonas; Sammy Kaye
and His Orchestra; Sapphires; Serendipity Singers; Shangri-Las; Sir
Douglas Quintet; Tams; Village Stompers; Walker Brothers; Who
1965: 13th Floor Elevators; Ad Libs; Alvin Cash and the Crawlers; Amboy
Dukes; Archie Bell and the Drells; Association; Bar-Kays; Big Brother
and the Holding Company; Blues Project; Bobby Fuller Four; Bonzo Dog
Band; Buckinghams; Cannibal and the Headhunters; Castaways;
Classics IV; Count Five; Country Joe and the Fish; Cowsills; Doors;
Electric Prunes; Flamin' Groovies; Fortunes; Fugs; Georgie Fame and
The Blue Flames; Grateful Dead; Heptones; Incredible String Band;
Jaggerz; Jefferson Airplane; Left Banke; Louis Ramsey Trio; Love;
Lovin' Spoonful; Mamas and the Papas; Marvelows; MC5; McCoys;
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels; Moments; Monkees; Pink Floyd;
Quicksilver Messenger Service; Rascals; San Remo Golden Strings;
Seeds; Seekers; Silkie; Small Faces; Sounds Orchestral; Spokesmen;
Statler Brothers; Strangeloves; T-Bones; Trade Winds; Trammps;
Troggs; Unit Four plus Two; Velvet Underground; Vogues; Waikikis; We
Five; Youngbloods
1966: Amen Corner; American Breed; Blues Image; Bob Kuban and the In-
Men; Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces; Brass Ring; Buffalo Springfield;
Canned Heat; Capitols; Chicago Loop; Cream; Critters; Cyrkle; Fifth
Dimension; Five Americans; Genesis; Grass Roots; Happenings; Iron
Butterfly; Just Us; Kaleidoscope; Knickerbockers; Leaves; Lynyrd
Skynrd; Moby Grape; Move; Music Machine; New Vaudeville Band; Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band; Outsiders; Pozo-Seco Singers; Procol Harum; Royal
Guardsmen; Savoy Brown; Shades of Blue; Shadows of Knight; Soft
Machine; Spanky and Our Gang; Standells; Steve Miller Band; Swingin'
Medallions; Syndicate of Sound; Vanilla Fudge; Viscounts
1967: The Band; Barclay James Harvest; Black Sabbath; Blood, Sweat, andTears; Blue Cheer; Box Tops; Brenda and the Tabulations; Casinos;
Chicago; Chicken Shack; Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen;
Davie Allan and the Arrows; Edwin Hawkins Singers; Electric Flag;
Esquires; Every Mother's Son; Experience; Fairport Convention; Family;
Fifth Estate; First Edition; Fleetwood Mac; Foundations; Friends of
Distinction; Gary Puckett and the Union Gap; Hombres; Iggy and the
Stooges; Innocence; J. Geils Band; Jackson 5; James Gang; Jay and
the Techniques; Jethro Tull; Jon & Robin and the In Crowd; Joy of
Cooking; Kingpins; Lemon Pipers; Meters; Mojo Men; Music Explosion;
Nazz; Nice; NRBQ; Parade; Pentangle; Rose Garden; Santana; Shaggs;
Sly and the Family Stone; Sopwith Camel; Soul Survivors; Spirit; Spooky
Tooth; Steppenwolf; Strawberry Alarm Clock; Strawbs; Sunshine
Company; T.Rex; Tangerine Dream; Ten Years After; Three Dog Night;
Traffic; Tubes; Van der Graaf Generator; Yellow Balloon; Young-Holt
Unlimited
1968: 1910 Fruitgum Company; Archies; Avant-Garde; Badfinger; Balloon
Farm; Blodwyn Pig; Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers; Brooklyn Bridge;
Bull & The Matadors; Can; Chambers Brothers; Climax Blues Band;
Commodores; Con Funk Shun; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; Dan
Hicks and His Hot Licks; Deep Purple; Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show;
Emotions; Equals; Flying Burrito Brothers; Four Jacks and a Jill; Free;
Friend and Lover; Grand Funk Railroad; Henry Cow; Hesitations; Hugo
Montenegro, His Orchestra And Chorus; Human Beinz; Irish Rovers; It's
a Beautiful Day; Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus; Led Zeppelin;
Magic Lanterns; Mandrill; Max Frost and The Troopers; Mott the Hoople;
Nazareth; New Colony Six; Ohio Express; O'Kaysions; Paul Mauriat and
His Orchestra; People; Poco; Redbone; REO Speedwagen;
Sandpebbles; Sandpipers; Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66; Slade; Stylistics;
Sweet; Tower of Power; Unifics; Yes
1969: Alabama; Allman Brothers Band; America; Arbors; Argent; Art Ensembleof Chicago; Bill Deal & The Rhondels; Black Oak Arkansas; Blind Faith;Blue Öyster Cult; Bread; Bubble Puppy; Cat Mother and The All NightNews Boys; Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band;Checkmates, LTD.; Clique; Crazy Elephant; Crow; Cuff Links; Derek andthe Dominos; Desmond Dekker & The Aces; Digable Planets; Dyke andthe Blazers; Earth, Wind & Fire; Electric Indian; Flaming Ember; Flirtations; Flying Machine; Focus; Harlow Wilcox and The Oakies; Hawkwind; Hues Corporation; Humble Pie; Illusion; Intrigues; Judas Priest; King Crimson; Little Feat; Manhattan Transfer; Mercy;
Motherlode; Mountain; Mungo Jerry; Neon Philharmonic; New Riders of
the Purple Sage; Originals; Osibisa; Peppermint Rainbow; Plastic Ono
Band; Rare Earth; Renaissance; Rugbys; Rush; Seals and Crofts; Sha
Na Na; Shocking Blue; Smith; Spiral Staircase; Steam; Steeleye Span;
Stone The Crows; Supertramp; Thunderclap Newman; Tony Williams
Lifetime; Underground Sunshine; Vanity Fare; War; Winstons
1970: 100 Proof Aged In Soul; Aerosmith; Alive and Kicking; Asleep at the
Wheel; Assembled Multitude; Bay City Rollers; Brinsley Schwarz;
Brotherhood of Man; Chairmen of the Board; Crabby Appleton; Doobie
Brothers; Edison Lighthouse; El Chicano; Emerson, Lake and Palmer;
Fanny; Five Flights Up; Five Stairsteps; Flo & Eddie; Frijid Pink;
Funkadelic; Gentle Giant; Gong; Heart; Hot Chocolate; Hotlegs; Kansas;
Little Sister; Lost Generation; Mark-Almond Band; Marmalade;
Mashmakhan; Michael Nesmith & The First National Band;
Neighborhood; New Seekers; Original Caste; Pacific Gas & Electric;
Parliament; Partridge Family; Pipkins; Poppy Family; Presidents;
Raspberries; Redeye; Residents; Street People; Sugarloaf; Suicide; Tee
Set; Thin Lizzy; Three Degrees; Tony Orlando and Dawn; Uriah Heep;
Weather Report; White Plains; ZZ Top
1971: 8th Day; ABBA; Ambrosia; Atlanta Rhythm Section/ARS; Beginning ofthe End; Bells; Big Star; Bloodrock; Bullet; Buoys; C Company Featuring
Terry Nelson; Charlie Daniels Band; Chase; Coven; Cymarron; Dr.
Feelgood; Dramatics; Eagles; Electric Light Orchestra; Five Man
Electrical Band; Foghat; Francis Lai and his Orchestra; Frank Marino
and Mahogany Rush; Free Movement; Fuzz; Glass Bottle; Grin; Hillside
Singers; Honey Cone; Lighthouse; Liz Damon's Orient Express;
Mahavishnu Orchestra; Malo; Marshall Tucker Band; Mike Curb
Congregation; Motels; New Birth; New York Dolls; Nite-Liters; Ocean;
Ozark Mountain Daredevils; Paul Humphrey & The Cool Aid Chemists;
People's Choice; Persuaders; Pointer Sisters; Queen; Roxy Music;
Scorpions; Seldom Scene; Sounds of Sunshine; Sparks; Stampeders;
Sweathog; Tin Tin; Undisputed Truth; Wings
1972: 10cc; Ace; Addrisi Brothers; Apollo 100; April Wine; Average White
Band; Bachman-Turner Overdrive; Be-Bop Deluxe; Blue Haze; Blue
Ridge Rangers; Chakachas; Climax; Detroit Emeralds; Devo; English
Congregation; Flash; Flatlanders; Gallery; Gap Band; Hot Butter; Hot
Tuna; Jo Jo Gunne; Kiss; Looking Glass; Lords of the New Church; Love
Unlimited; MFSB (Mother, Father, Son, Brother); Orleans; Sailcat; Split
Enz; Stealers Wheel; Steely Dan; Stories; Think
1973: AC/DC; Bad Company; Brighter Side of Darkness; Brownsville Station;Cabaret Voltaire; DeFranco Family; Dixie Dregs; Edgar Winter Group;Edward Bear; First Choice; George Thorogood and the Destroyers;
Gunhill Road; Independents; Jam; JB's; Journey; KC and the Sunshine
Band; King Harvest; Los Lobos; Mighty Diamonds; New York City; Pablo
Cruise; Skylark; Sylvers; Television; Twisted Sister; Ultravox
1974: Amazing Rhythm Aces; B.T. Express; Black Uhuru; Blondie; Blue Magic;Blue Swede; Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods; Cameo; Cheap Trick;Dictators; Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes; Dr. Buzzard's Original
Savannah Band; Fabulous Thunderbirds; Fancy; Firefall; First Class;
Japan; Mink DeVille; Montrose; Natural Four; Outlaws; Paper Lace;
Prelude; Ramones; Reunion; Rubettes; Soul Children; Southside Johnny
and the Asbury Jukes; Squeeze; Stranglers; Utopia; Van Halen;
Wednesday; Wet Willie
1975: .38 Special; 5000 Volts; Alan Parsons Project; Babys; Bazuka;
Blackbyrds; Boomtown Rats; Boston; Bruce Springsteen & The E Street
Band; Buzzcocks; Cramps; Greg Kihn Band; Heartbreakers; Jigsaw;
Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band; Little River Band; Molly Hatchet;
Motörhead; Nerves; Pere Ubu; Pilot; Pure Prairie League; Quiet Riot;
Rainbow; Road Apples; Rumour; Runaways; Saints; Sex Pistols; Shirley
& Company; Silver Convention; Sly and Robbie; Steel Pulse; Talking
Heads; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Undertones; Wing And A
Prayer Fife And Drum Corps; Zapp
1976: Air Supply; Andrea True Connection; B-52's; Beausoleil; Bob Segar &The Silver Bullet Band; Boys Next Door; Brass Construction; Brick;
Brothers Johnson; Cars; Chic; Clash; Cledus Maggard and The Citizen's
Band; Cure; Damned; Dead Boys; Feelies; Flash Cadillac & The
Continental Kids; Fleshtones; Foreigner; Generation X; Iron Maiden; Joy
Division; L.T.D.; Lady Flash; Midnight Oil; Modern Lovers; Only Ones;
Rhythm Heritage; Richard Hell and the Voidoids; Rick Dees and His
Cast of Idiots; Rockpile; Rose Royce; Salsoul Orchestra; Silver; Siouxsie
and the Banshees; Slits; Soft Boys; Starbuck; Starland Vocal Band; Wire
1977: Adam and the Ants; Black Flag; C.J. & Co.; Def Leppard; Dickies; DireStraits; DNA; Enchantment; Facts of Life; Fall; Floaters; Gang of Four;
Go_Betweens; Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five; Heatwave;
High Energy; Hot; Human League; INXS; Lipps, Inc.; Magazine; Mekons;
Motors; Neville Brothers; Odyssey; Player; Police; Q; Raincoats; Ram
Jam; Romantics; S.O.S. Band; Santa Esmerelda; Shalamar; Slave;
Smokie; Specials; Stallion; Starz; Sugar Hill Gang; Thompson Twins;
Tom Robinson Band; U.K.; Village People; Wilton Place Street Band; X;
XTC
1978: Alarm; Celebration Featuring Mike Love; Chanson; City Boy; dB's; DeadKennedys; DeBarge; Duran Duran; Echo and the Bunnymen; English