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The Grass Roots
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In the entire history of Rock n’ Roll; only 9 bands (including The Beatles) have charted more hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 than The Grass Roots.
They hold the all-time attendance record for a one act U.S. concert of 600,000 people on July 4th, 1982 in Washington, DC.
During a 6-year period (1967-1972) The Grass Roots set a record for being on the Billboard charts an unbelievable 307 straight weeks and have sold over 20 million records worldwide.
The Grass Roots had a series of major hits — most notably “Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes” and “Two Divided by Love” — that help define the essence of the era’s best AM radio. Although the group’s members weren’t even close to being recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was next to irrelevant, the Grass Roots managed to chart 14 Top 40 hits, including seven gold singles and one platinum single, and two had hits collections that effortlessly went gold. The group’s history is also fairly complicated, because there were at least three different groups involved in the making of the songs identified as being by “the Grass Roots.” The Grass Roots was originated by the writer/producer team of P.F Sloan and Steve Barri as a pseudonym under which they would release a body of Byrds-style folk-rock. Sloan and Barri were contracted songwriters for Trousdale Music, the publishing arm of Dunhill Records, which wanted to cash in on the folk-rock boom of 1965. Dunhill asked Sloan and Barri to come up with this material, and a group alias under which they would release it.
They hold the all-time attendance record for a one act U.S. concert of 600,000 people on July 4th, 1982 in Washington, DC.
During a 6-year period (1967-1972) The Grass Roots set a record for being on the Billboard charts an unbelievable 307 straight weeks and have sold over 20 million records worldwide.
The Grass Roots had a series of major hits — most notably “Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes” and “Two Divided by Love” — that help define the essence of the era’s best AM radio. Although the group’s members weren’t even close to being recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was next to irrelevant, the Grass Roots managed to chart 14 Top 40 hits, including seven gold singles and one platinum single, and two had hits collections that effortlessly went gold. The group’s history is also fairly complicated, because there were at least three different groups involved in the making of the songs identified as being by “the Grass Roots.” The Grass Roots was originated by the writer/producer team of P.F Sloan and Steve Barri as a pseudonym under which they would release a body of Byrds-style folk-rock. Sloan and Barri were contracted songwriters for Trousdale Music, the publishing arm of Dunhill Records, which wanted to cash in on the folk-rock boom of 1965. Dunhill asked Sloan and Barri to come up with this material, and a group alias under which they would release it.
Videos
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The Grass Roots - Walking Through The Country
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The Grass Roots - Things I Should Have Said
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The Grass Roots- Wait A Million Years
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The Grass Roots-Midnight confessions
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Midnight Confessions
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Let's Live For Today
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Sooner or Later
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Temptation Eyes
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Midnight Confession
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I'd Wait A Million Years
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Two Divided by Love
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Where Were You When I Needed You
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Wait a Million Years
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Heaven Knows
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Things I Should Have Said
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Baby Hold On
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The River Is Wide
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Bella Linda
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Shoutbox
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suikodee wrote:
Is the scrobble count true? Sounds a little unbelievable to me... They deserve more plays.
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HeadShop wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Strappado2
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GreyJ wrote:
Wow, these guys deserve more scrobbles.
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keeperofawesome wrote:
Awesome music here
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MathiasPage wrote:
Never realy heared of them, but I was quite suprised when I read the discription and saw the low playcount.
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Showstoppa113 wrote:
new picture up (with Creed) http://www.last.fm/music/The+Grass+Roots/+images/5149032 Vote for it!
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Janalima85 wrote:
Sha la la la la live for today.
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Themactator wrote:
Fantastic band.
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mattdh12 wrote:
haha its creed, thats so cool. i definitely need to give them a listen now.
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foeffa wrote:
goooo Creed. \o/
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AnalPanda wrote:
yup.
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EdibleHandsoap wrote:
I'm shocked by their low number of listeners.
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Last_On_Bleach wrote:
what the fuck? why so little listeners?
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yourbitterhero wrote:
The Grass Roots are beyond amazing.
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tbigy wrote:
Creed Bratton > all
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thechameleonnn wrote:
freaking awesome
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