Category: Paul Revere & The Raiders

50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’69!

 

 

PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS

“Let Me” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and on Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. May 1969

 

 

 

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PAUL REVERE, FOUNDER OF RAIDERS FAME, DIES AT 76

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OBITUARIES

Paul Revere dies at 76, founded Paul Revere and the Raiders

 

By Claire Noland | LA TIMES Staff Writer | October 5, 2014, 3:14 PM

Paul Revere and The Raiders on the Smothers Brothers Show, 1967 (click on image for larger view).
Paul Revere and The Raiders on the Smothers Brothers Show, 1967 (click on image for larger view).

Paul Revere, a teenage businessman who found an outlet for his entrepreneurial spirit in the form of a campy rock ‘n’ roll band that capitalized on his name, wore Revolutionary War-era costumes and cranked out a string of grungy hits in the mid-1960s, has died. The founder of Paul Revere and the Raiders was 76..

Revere died Saturday of cancer at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho, his longtime manager Roger Hart told the Associated Press. After a near-constant touring schedule in recent years, Revere retreated six months ago to his adopted home state because of health issues, said his tour manager, Ron Lemen.

Along with singer and saxophonist Mark Lindsay, Revere, a keyboard player, formed a band called the Downbeats in Boise in 1959. Within a few years they would become Paul Revere and the Raiders, string together top-10 pop hits including “Kicks,” “Hungry” and “Good Thing” and become fixtures of Dick Clark’s weekday afternoon TV show “Where the Action Is.”

MCRFB note: For the rest of this Los Angeles Times Paul Revere Obituary article (October 5, 2014), please GO HERE.

Claire Noland | Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times
Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1966.
Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1966 (click on image for detailed view).

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