Be My Baby

Female Groups Dominated the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Groups such as The Shirelles, Shangri-Las, Chantels, and The Ronettes

New Dance Sensations Twist, Jerk, Twine, Georgia Slop, Bristol Stomp, Mashed Potato, Hully Gully, Popeye, etc.

Rise of the Writer/Producer to create a “Wall of Sound” effect. Phil Spector and The Beach Boys

“ . . .The music’s wellsprings, its governing aesthetics precepts, its deep structures and fundamentally African and African-American. Spirit and rhythm, the message and the beat, are the music’s ruling principles. At a certain emotional temperature they fuse.” THE RESULT IS ROCK