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Bands, including pop groups, orchestras, opera companies, drum corps and other musical groups, from the US state of Wisconsin. For individual musicians please see Category:Musicians from Wisconsin . Subcategories
These so-called race music records became Paramount's most famous and lucrative business, especially its 12000 series. It is estimated that a quarter of all "race records" released between 1922 and 1932 were on the Paramount label. [3] The company relied on offices and agents in nearby Chicago to find and record artists for its blues and jazz ...
The Banshees (band) BarlowGirl; The Barrett Sisters; BBU (band) Beach Bunny (band) Beatnik Turtle; Beethoven Project Trio; Bella Voce (group) Belmont (band) Benson Orchestra of Chicago; Big Shoulders; The Black Sheep Band; The Blacks (band) The Blank Theory; Bloodyminded; Blue Meanies (Illinois band) The Blues Brothers; Bob's Yer Uncle (band ...
Chicago's music has long been a staple of marching bands in the U.S. "25 or 6 to 4" was named as the number one marching band song by Kevin Coffey of the Omaha World-Herald, [250] and as performed by the Jackson State University marching band, ranked number seven of the "Top 20 Cover Songs of 2018 by HBCU Bands". [251]
House music originated in a Chicago nightclub called The Warehouse. Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. While the origins of the name "house music" are unclear, the most popular belief is that it can be traced to the name of that club. DJ Frankie Knuckles originally popularized house music while working at The Warehouse. [6]
Adding Madison, Wisconsin native Joel Paterson to the lineup in 2003, the group released its third record for Bloodshot in 2005. Gary Schepers (tuba) or Beau Sample (bass) often play with the band when Tom Ray is not available. In the summer of 2007, the group opened for the folk legend Ramblin' Jack Elliott in Cleveland.
The Ardells was a band started by Steve Miller in 1961 when he attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison.In the fall of 1962, Steve lived in a rooming house in Madison and also pledged the Chi Psi fraternity on fraternity row near Langdon St. Steve taught another fellow student, Jos Davidson, to play rhythm guitar and then bass, and formed a campus band: Steve Miller and the Ardells.
Bob Dylan and the Band commenced their 1974 tour in Chicago on January 3. [166] Dylan began 1973 by signing with a new label, David Geffen's Asylum Records, when his contract with Columbia Records expired. [167] His next album, Planet Waves, was recorded in the fall of 1973, using the Band as his backing group as they rehearsed for a major tour ...