The Rokes, the Glossary
The Rokes were a pop rock band formed in 1963 in Italy by English expatriates.[1]
Table of Contents
60 relations: A-side and B-side, AllMusic, Art gallery, Baby, Come Back (The Equals song), Beat music, Big Joe Turner, Bob Lind, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys, Continental Europe, Cover version, Dick James, Dorset, Edgware, England, Equipe 84, Expatriate, Gene Vincent, Germany, Hamburg, Hanover, Hello, How Are You, Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens song), I'm Alive (The Hollies song), Italian language, Jackie DeShannon, Let's Live for Today (song), London, Lucio Battisti, Ma che freddo fa, Marco Risi, Mario Monicelli, Michael Julien, Middlesex, Mogol (lyricist), Music recording certification, Musica e dischi, P. F. Sloan, Pop rock, Psychedelic rock, RCA Records, Record producer, Rhythm and blues, Rita Pavone, Rock and roll, Sanremo Music Festival, Save the Last Dance for Me, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Stanmore, Steve Barri, The Equals, ... Expand index (10 more) »
A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.
Baby, Come Back (The Equals song)
"Baby, Come Back" is a song by English band the Equals from their 1967 album Unequalled Equals.
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Beat music
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Big Joe Turner
Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.
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Bob Lind
Robert Neale Lind (born November 25, 1942) is an American folk-music singer-lyricist who helped define the 1960s folk rock movement in the U.S. and UK.
Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys
Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys were a British rock and roll band, led by Colin Hicks, the younger brother of singer Tommy Steele. The Rokes and Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys are English rock music groups.
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Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.
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Dick James
Dick James (born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick; 12 December 1920 – 1 February 1986) was a British music publisher and singer.
Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Edgware
Edgware is a suburban town in northern Greater London, mostly in the London Borough of Barnet but with some parts falling in the London Borough of Harrow and in the London Borough of Brent.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Equipe 84
Equipe 84 were an Italian Beat band formed in 1964 in Modena. The Rokes and Equipe 84 are beat groups and italian rock music groups.
Expatriate
An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship.
Gene Vincent
Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American rock and roll musician who pioneered the style of rockabilly.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Hanover
Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.
Hello, How Are You
"Hello, How Are You" is a 1968 song and single by Australian rock group the Easybeats, which was written by band members George Young and Harry Vanda.
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Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens song)
"Here Comes My Baby" is a song written by British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens.
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I'm Alive (The Hollies song)
"I'm Alive" is a 1965 number-one UK hit single by the Hollies, written for them by American songwriter Clint Ballard Jr. Although they originally passed the song over to another Manchester band, the Toggery Five, they changed their minds and recorded it, achieving their first No.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Jackie DeShannon
Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers; August 21, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and radio broadcaster with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer.
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Let's Live for Today (song)
"Let's Live for Today" is a song written by David "Shel" Shapiro and Italian lyricist Mogol, with additional English lyrics provided by Michael Julien.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti (5 March 1943 – 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer.
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Ma che freddo fa
"Ma che freddo fa" is a 1969 song composed by Claudio Mattone (music) and Franco Migliacci (lyrics).
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Marco Risi
Marco Risi (born 4 June 1951) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cinematographer.
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the commedia all'italiana ("Italian-style comedy").
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Michael Julien
Michael Julien (1 August 1927 – 29 December 2020), also known as Peter Warne, was a British songwriter, who was the co-writer of a number of hit songs around the world.
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Middlesex
Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.
Mogol (lyricist)
Giulio Rapetti (born 17 August 1936), best known as Mogol, is an Italian music lyricist.
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Music recording certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.
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Musica e dischi
("Music and Records") was the oldest and longest-running music industry publication in Italy.
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P. F. Sloan
Philip Gary "Flip" Sloan (né Schlein; September 18, 1945 – November 15, 2015), known professionally as P. F. Sloan, was an American singer and songwriter.
Pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music.
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Rita Pavone
Rita Ori Filomena Merk-Pavone (born August 23, 1945) is an Italian-Swiss soprano singer, actress and showgirl, who enjoyed success through the 1960s.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI.
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Save the Last Dance for Me
"Save the Last Dance for Me" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by American musical group the Drifters with Ben E. King on lead vocals.
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Shake, Rattle and Roll
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a song written in 1954 by Jesse Stone (usually credited as "Charles Calhoun", his songwriting name) and first recorded that year by Big Joe Turner, whose version ranked No.
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Stanmore
Stanmore is part of the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London.
Steve Barri
Steve Barri (born Steven Barry Lipkin; February 23, 1942, New York City) is an American songwriter and record producer.
The Equals
The Equals are an English rock band. The Rokes and The Equals are beat groups and English rock music groups.
The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots are an American rock band that charted frequently between 1965 and 1975.
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The Hollies
The Hollies are an English rock and pop band formed in 1962. The Rokes and The Hollies are beat groups.
The Top Ten Club
The Top Ten Club was a music club in Hamburg's St. Pauli district at Reeperbahn 136, which opened on 31 October 1960 and kept its name until 1994.
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Tommy Steele
Sir Thomas Hicks (born 17 December 1936), known professionally as Tommy Steele, is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.
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Twickenham
Twickenham is a suburban district in London, England.
Vic Briggs
Victor Harvey Briggs III (14 February 1945 – 30 June 2021) was a British blues and rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist with Eric Burdon and The Animals during the 1966–1968 period.
Walthamstow
Walthamstow is a town in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, around north-east of Central London.
Weymouth, Dorset
Weymouth is a sea-side town and civil parish in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, on the English Channel coast of England.
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When You Walk in the Room
"When You Walk in the Room" is a song written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon.
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Will You Love Me Tomorrow
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow", sometimes known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", is a song with words by Gerry Goffin and music composed by Carole King.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rokes
Also known as Mike Shepstone, Shel Shapiro.
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