James “Mike” Tronco shared a stage with the likes of James Brown, Gladys Knight and The Drifters while helming The Sensational Epics, a band at the heart of Columbia’s robust music scene in the 1960s.
During his mid-20th-century Palm Beach heyday, sartorially exuberant Jack Mitchell wasn’t hard to spot. Known for his colorful ensembles, he might be spotted wearing a sunny-yellow blazer and ...
Gulliver's hamburger : defamiliarization and the ordinary in the 1960s Avant Garde / Sally Banes -- Anna Halprin and the 1960s : acting in the gap between the personal, the public, and the political / ...
The “battle of the bands” concept wasn’t invented during the 1960s, when hundreds of teen bands began springing up in suburban garages in the wake of the rise of surf music and, a bit later, the ...
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary leader whose genius for melody and arrangements inspired hits like "Good Vibrations" and "California Girls" has died at the age of 82. Wilson's family posted ...
Mike Tronco, lead singer of The Sensational Epics. The Sensational Epics were a 9-piece beach music band from Columbia, prominent in the 1960s. They shared the stage with James Brown, Gladys Knight, ...