Frat rock was an early influential American subgenre of rock and roll / roots rock. Frat rock was generally characterized as very energetic and upbeat yet raw "party" rock. The genre is named after the fact that many of these bands played at gigs at fraternity houses during the genre's heyday in the 1960s. The movie Animal House played numerous selections of this style of music during the film. ^[1] Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... National Lampoons Animal House is a 1978 comedy film in which a misfit group of fraternity boys take on the system at their college. ...

Examples of this style of music include the song "Louie Louie", which was done by Paul Revere and the Raiders and The Kingsmen, "Shout!" by The Isley Brothers, and "Double Shot of my Baby's Love" by The Swingin' Medallions. For the American singer, see Louie Louie (musician). ... Paul Revere & the Raiders is an American rock band that saw enormous mainstream success in the 1960s, best-known for hits like Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian), Steppin Out, Kicks, and Hungry. In the 1980s, the band became a major source of inspiration for the Paisley... The Kingsmen were a rock band from Portland, Oregon who rose suddenly to fame with their recording of Richard Berrys Louie, Louie. ... Shout! was a very popular and influential record by The Isley Brothers when it was released in 1959. ... The Isley Brothers (IPA: ) are an African-American music group from Cincinnati, Ohio, who hold the record for being the longest-running charted group in music history. ... The Swingin Medallions are a 1960s rock and roll / frat rock band. ...

Frat rock is considered an important influence and precursor to garage rock and punk rock. Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

List of frat rock bands

Note that these bands are not strictly frat rock. Many bands fit into multiple categories; for example, ? & the Mysterians can also be considered proto-punk, The Isley Brothers can also be considered soul or funk, and Cannibal & the Headhunters can be considered brown-eyed soul. Also note that there is a considerable overlap of garage rock, Latin rock, proto-punk, and surf rock bands with frat rock bands. ? & the Mysterians were an American rock and roll band formed in Flint, Michigan in 1962. ... Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of punk rock, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. ... The Isley Brothers (IPA: ) are an African-American music group from Cincinnati, Ohio, who hold the record for being the longest-running charted group in music history. ... For other uses, see Soul (disambiguation). ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... Cannibal & The Headhunters are one of the fist Mexican-American groups to have a hit record - and its one of the catchiest and most-recorded songs of the Rock n Roll era - Land of 1000 Dances. Theyre still big favorites of many oldies disc jockeys. ... Brown-eyed soul is a subgenre of Soul music or Rhythm and Blues created mainly by Latinos and Italian-Americans during the 1950s and thriving into the 1980s. ... Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. ... Carlos Santana: Munich, Germany, 1975 Latin rock is a fusion of the rock music with the latin american rhythms and – also – with some instruments which are typical for this music like percussion, but also piano riffs known from son cubano or merengue. ... Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of punk rock, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. ... In the early 1960s, one of the most popular forms of rock and roll was surf rock. ...

• Fuad & The Feztones
• The Blendells
• The D-Men
• Cannibal & the Headhunters
• The Champs
• The Contours
• The Fifth Estate (band)
• The Fireballs
• The Gentrys
• The Human Beinz
• The Isley Brothers
• The Kingsmen
• The Knickerbockers
• Music Explosion
• Paul Revere and the Raiders
• Question Mark & the Mysterians
• Mitch Ryder
• Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
• The Shadows
• The Sonics
• The Surfaris
• The Swingin' Medallions
• Thee Midniters
• Tommy James & the Shondells
• The Trashmen
• The Troggs
• The Ventures
• The Wailers
• The Wilde Knights

The Blendells were a 1960s Mexican American brown-eyed soul group from East Los Angeles, California. ... The D-Men 1964. The D-Men were an American Beat group. ... Cannibal & The Headhunters are one of the fist Mexican-American groups to have a hit record - and its one of the catchiest and most-recorded songs of the Rock n Roll era - Land of 1000 Dances. Theyre still big favorites of many oldies disc jockeys. ... The Champs were a one hit wonder, most famous for their instrumental Tequila. Formed by studio executives to record a B-Side for a single, the intended throwaway track became more famous than its A-Side. ... The Contours were one of the early soul singing groups signed to Motown Records. ... // Out of Greenwich Village, NYC, The Fifth Estate were a rock n roll band originally formed in Stamford, Connecticut as the The Fifth Estate. The D-Men in early 1964. ... The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, were an American rock and roll group of the 1950s and 1960s. ... The Gentrys were an American band of the 1960s and early 1970s, known for their hit, 1965s Keep on Dancing. They also had a follow up hit in 1970 Why Should I Cry. The seven-member group of Treadwell High School (Memphis, Tennessee), alumni included Bruce Bowles (vocals), Bobby... The Human Beinz are an American rock and roll / frat rock band from Youngstown, Ohio. ... The Isley Brothers (IPA: ) are an African-American music group from Cincinnati, Ohio, who hold the record for being the longest-running charted group in music history. ... The Kingsmen were a rock band from Portland, Oregon who rose suddenly to fame with their recording of Richard Berrys Louie, Louie. ... 60s Group Famous for their hit Lies a Lennon-McCartney Penned tune never recorded or released by their group The Beatles The Knickerbockers formed in 1964 by Buddy Randell (vocals, sax), previously of the Royal Teens, who had a hit with Short Shorts. The original (and classic) line-up consisted... Music Explosion was a garage rock band from Ohio known for their top-ten hit, Little Bit OSoul, in 1967. ... Paul Revere & the Raiders is an American rock band that saw enormous mainstream success in the 1960s, best-known for hits like Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian), Steppin Out, Kicks, and Hungry. In the 1980s, the band became a major source of inspiration for the Paisley... Question Mark and the Mysterians (or ? and the Mysterians) were an American rock and roll band formed in Flint, Michigan, in 1962. ... Mitch Ryder (born 26 February 1945) is an American musician born in Hamtramck, Michigan as William S. Levise Jr. ... Sam the Sham is the stage name of rock n roll singer Domingo “Sam” Samudio from Dallas, Texas. ... The Shadows were an English instrumental rock n roll group active from the 1950s to the 2000s. ... The Sonics were a member of the wave of Pacific Northwest American garage rock groups in the early and mid-1960s, pioneered by The Kingsmen and The Wailers . ... The Surfaris were an American surf music band formed in Glendora, California in 1962. ... The Swingin Medallions are a 1960s rock and roll / frat rock band. ... Thee Midniters were amongst the first Latino rock bands to have a major hit in the United States, and one of the best known acts to come out of East Los Angeles in the 1960s, with a cover of Land of a Thousand Dances and the instrumental Whittier Boulevard in... It has been suggested that Tommy James be merged into this article or section. ... The Trashmen were a rock and roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. ... The Troggs were a successful English rock band of the 1960s, who had a number of hits in Britain and America, including their most famous song, Wild Thing. The Troggs were from the town of Andover in southern England. ... Walk Dont Run (1960) The Ventures are a rock instrumental band formed in 1958, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two Seattle masonry workers. ... The Wailers were an American rock band from Tacoma, Washington, often considered the first garage rock group. ...

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