By the 1960s, " the Big Apple " was known only as an old name for New York.

Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

As a popular psychedelic act of the late 1960s, many of Joplin's live concerts with Big Brother were professionally recorded and have been released on albums like Live at Winterland ' 68 and Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.

Both Big Pink and The Band also influenced their musical contemporaries, with both Eric Clapton and George Harrison citing the Band as a major influence on their musical direction in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Big Bands also began to appear in movies in the 1930s right on through to the 1960s.

Basie hitched his star to some of the most famous vocalists of the 1950s and 1960s, which helped keep the Big Band sound alive and added greatly to his recording catalog.

Headed by Ben Toney, who had been the original program manager for Big L in the 1960s, the new company also had links to Don Pierson who had founded the station in 1964.

The term then became commonplace in Beach Party films of the 1960s such as Beach Blanket Bingo, where the " Big Kahuna " was the best surfer on the beach.

* Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing, four trainers who dominated the sport in the 1960s and 1970s

Big Park, the pioneers ' name for the large open area that became the Village of Oak Creek in the early 1960s, is set among scenic red-rock buttes and canyons.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he lived by himself at the old Baker ranch-house on Baker Creek near Big Pine.

Most notably in the 1960s and 70s he was best known as the owner of Kash's Big Bargain Barn.

Another major part of Big Spring's economy and life during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s was Webb Air Force Base.

The lake was formed when the Big Blue River was dammed for flood control in the 1960s, and it is now a state park that offers many recreational opportunities.

As one of the first psychedelic bands, their contemporary influence has been acknowledged by 1960s musicians such as Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Chris Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks.

Throughout the 1960s, he performed on the Boston broadcast of Bozo's Big Top, where he played Mr. Lion, who created cartoons from the names of children participating in the show.

Whitmore also made several memorable appearances on the classic ABC western The Big Valley starring Barbara Stanwyck and the classic NBC western The Virginian starring James Drury during the second half of the 1960s.

Lacking the influence of American pioneers such as Big Star and Raspberries, these bands were more directly inspired by 1960s beat music bands, particularly The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles.

In an effort to stay competitive, American Motors produced a wide range of products during the 1960s, and added innovations long before the " Big Three " introduced them.

From the 1940s to the 1960s, the astrophysical community was equally divided between supporters of the Big Bang theory and supporters of a rival steady state universe.

The mining of gold was the catalyst ( The Big Three, Dome, Hollinger and McIntyre ), but during the early 1960s, silver and base metals such as zinc, copper, and nickel were discovered near Kidd Creek ( Texas Gulf Sulphur ), breathing new life into the Porcupine economy.

* Ladiver in the Big Finish audio drama adaptation of the 1960s Doctor Who stage play, The Curse of the Daleks ( 2008 )

McCormack set up a series of televised golf matches around the world amongst the three stars, known as Big Three Golf, in the early 1960s.

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

A trend towards bigger drum kits in Rock music began in the 1960s and gained momentum in the 1970s.

By the 1960s, motor vehicles were being restricted or banned from crossing the border, while only Spanish nationals employed on the Rock being allowed to enter Gibraltar.

Rock music in India has its origins in 1960s when international stars such as The Beatles visited India and brought their music with them.

Rock music played on 45s became the soundtrack to the 1960s as people bought the same songs that were played free of charge on the radio.

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in 1950s America and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the " hippie " counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

Since the late 1960s other songwriter's award has been presented for genre-specific categories including Grammy Award for Best Country Song, Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, Grammy Award for Best R & B Song and most recently in Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Grammy Award for Best Gospel Song.

In 1989, Haley's original Decca recording was incorporated into the " dance mix " single " Swing The Mood ", credited to Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, but legal considerations forced the album version to substitute a patchwork of re-recordings from the 1950s and 1960s ( in Haley's case, a 1968 version of " Rock Around the Clock " recorded for Sonet Records ).

Emerson became intrigued with the Hammond organ after hearing jazz organist Jack McDuff perform " Rock Candy " and it subsequently became his instrument of choice for performing in the late 1960s.

Rock music played on 45s became the soundtrack to the 1960s as people bought what they heard on the radio.

Rock and roll has often been seen as a combination of rhythm and blues with country music, a fusion particularly evident in 1950s rockabilly, and there has been cross-pollination throughout the history of both genres, however, the term country-rock is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record rock records using country themes, vocal styles and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitar.

The spin-off, Rock & Chips, was also set in Peckham in the 1960s.

However, Cabot experienced growth during the 1950s and 1960s, due to its proximity to the Little Rock Air Force Base in nearby Jacksonville which opened in 1955.

Brownstown's three separate segments are due to the incorporation of the cities of Flat Rock, Rockwood, and Woodhaven in the early 1960s.

From the 1930s until the early 1960s an airport was located in Flat Rock.

However, the town also garnered its share of controversy in the 1960s and 1970s ; among the controversies was the " Love Valley Rock Festival ", which local farmers complained brought drug addicts and other " troublemakers " to the area during the festival.

Since the 1960s Slippery Rock has been well served by the Interstate Highway system as Interstate 79 ( North-South ) and Interstate 80 ( East-West ) cross roughly 10 miles away.

Andy Warhol during the early 1960s beginning to create films and video, in the mid-60s sponsored the Velvet Underground and staged events and performances in New York, like the Exploding Plastic Inevitable ( 1966 ) that featured live Rock music, exploding lights, and film.

On January 22, 1965 Burke recorded four songs at Atlantic's New York studio, including his " signature single ", and his biggest hit (# 1 R & B, # 22 pop ), " Got to Get You Off My Mind " ( Atlantic 2276 ), which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would later call " one of the premier soul hits of the 1960s.

UK 1960s Garage Rock band The Troggs utilised Cheddar Caves as the backdrop for the band photo on their debut album " From Nowhere-The Troggs ", which included the US Billboard no. 1 hit single ( no. 2 UK ), " Wild Thing ".

Some " classic " riddims, such as " Nanny Goat " and " Real Rock " are essentially the accompaniment tracks to the original 1960s reggae songs with those names.

By the time the group recorded their final album of the 1960s, Rock ' n ' Roll Party, the band's success in the US was history and the album was not released by MGM there.