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The Grass Roots played at Newport Pop Festival 1969 at Devonshire Downs, which was a racetrack at the time but now is part of the North Campus for California State University at Northridge. They played on Sunday, June 22, which was the final day of the festival, as their top twenty hit "Wait A Million Years" was hitting the airwaves.
The Grass Roots also recorded songs written by the group's musicians, which appeared on their albums and the B-sides of many hit singles. As the Grass Roots, they had their first top-10 hit in the summer of 1967 with "Let's Live for Today", an English-language cover version of "Piangi con me", a 1966 hit for the Anglo-Italian quartet The Rokes.
Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) was founded by Ann Williams in 1976. [1] [4] Originally located on the campus of Bishop College, DBDT received a 1988 gift from Lucy Crow Billingsley for access to a 13,000 square-foot building on Flora Street in Dallas.
Let's Live for Today" was recorded by the Grass Roots with the help of session musicians, including Sloan on lead guitar, and was released as a single in May 1967. [1] [3] The lead vocal on the Grass Roots' recording was sung by the band's bassist Rob Grill [1] and the distinctive "1-2-3-4" count-in before the chorus was sung by guitarist ...
In 1968, after receiving a $1 million Ford Foundation grant, she began the first dance department at Bishop College, in Dallas, TX. [3] Williams started the Dallas Black Dance Academy in 1974 in an effort to provide dance instruction for underprivileged students who were unable to afford private dance instruction. With growing popularity ...
The group lacked a bass player and singer so they visited the Musician Union #69 in Hollywood. There they saw a posting for Rob Grill. Rob tried out for the open slot and was dynamite. [8] In 1967, the group changed their name to The Grass Roots to take advantage of prior name recognition and recorded "Let's Live For Today".
There were many powerful moments throughout the service, but one moment has had people talking -- Bush's dance moves during "Battle Hymn of the Republic." George W. Bush turns heads at Dallas ...
Let's Live for Today is the second studio album by the American rock band the Grass Roots, released in July 1967 by Dunhill Records.A new group was brought in for this album which included Creed Bratton, Rick Coonce, Warren Entner and Rob Grill.