Gimmicky Bands of the '70s (Saturday morning kid's show bands)
In the 1970s bands needed to have a "hook". They couldn't just be musicians, no, they had to be musicians who solved crimes, or had animal members, monsters, fairies, etc. Since I did fictional bands of the '60s and '80s, I decided to do something different with the '70s. The amount of pop music written for American kid's shows in the late sixties and seventies is staggering. Most of the "bands" I included had an album put out by labels like Decca and Capitol. The Josie and the Pussycats here is different from the one I had on this blog before. The cartoon was popular enough to release a record announcing, "now a real live group!". Cheryl Ladd was one of the members, then going by Cherie Moor.
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