Excluding The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Who?

Question

What are your favorite artists from the "British Invasion" that hit the US between 1964-1967?
Here's my top five:
1) The Animals
2) The Yardbirds
3) The Kinks
4) The Dave Clark Five
5) The Hollies

Edit: Gorgeous, yes the Mindbenders with Lulu.

Edit: Electric, I should have put Donovan in my top five!

Edit: Conchobo, I have no clue who Lonnie Donnegan is.

Edit: Green, yes 1969 for Zep.

Edit: Whatnoww, All those bands except for the Kinks came later then 1967.

Edit: Smiley, seeing your list brought back memories of a lot of bands I've forgotten!
I know Bowie had music before 67 but his first album release in the states was in 1969.

Edit: Smiley, I guess you're right (as usual). And I thought I had all his albums!
Maybe my cover is different but I know I have an album with Please Mr. Gravedigger. I'll have to check when I get home.

Edit: Darth you're supposed to pick between 1964-1967! (see above)

Answer 1

1. Donovan
2. The Zombies
3. The Hollies
4. Herman's Hermits
5. Dave Clark Five

The Zombies and Donovan really don't get the credit or respect they deserve.

Answer 2

The British Invasion also hit other parts of the world besides the US. In Holland for example the kids went nuts in the mid 60's, as did Australia, Canada etc.

I remember collecting 45's and albums by these other British Invasion bands/artists:

Manfred Mann
The Searchers
Herman's Hermits
The Artwoods
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Pretty Things
The Spencer Davis Group
The Zombies
The Action
Dave Berry
The Artwoods
Cilla Black
Chad & Jeremy
The Swinging Blue Jeans
Neil Christian
Cream
Marianne Faithfull
The Dave Clark Five
The Walker Brothers
The Nice
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
The Creation
The Small Faces
The Soft Machine
Unit 4 + 2
The Rockin' Berries
Peter & Gordon
The Tremeloes
John Mayalls Bluesbreakers
The Downliners Sect
Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders
The Fortunes
The Fourmost
Freddie & The Dreamers
The Graham Bond Organization
The Undertakers
Gerry & The Pacemakers
Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
The Hullaballoos
Billy J. Kramer
The Troggs
Lulu
The Merseybeats
The Moody Blues
Johns Children
The Move
Dusty Springfield
The Rockin' Vickers
The Paramounts/Procol Harum
Peter & Gordon
The Remo Four
The Sorrows
The Roulettes
The Searchers
Vanity Fare

Beatle Fanatic - Lonnie Donegan was a skiffle musician popular in the 50's-60's. He had the hit, "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFldsASeO_M

Beatle Fanatic - re: whatnowwwww - Bowie had released several singles in 1966, and his first album was released in 1967. Though popular in the UK and parts of Europe at that time, I wouldn't consider him part of the British Invasion.
He was also recording as early as 1964 under the names like Davy Jones and the Lower Third/Kingbees, The Manish Boys etc.

Beatle Fanatic - I guess it depends on what resource you're using, and how reliable it is. I own his 1st album, both US and UK pressings from 1967. Here it is. Scroll down to see year of release & country of origin: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/david_bowie/david_bowie_f1/
Perhaps you are thinking of this, his 2nd album released in 1969:
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/david_bowie/david_bowie_f2/
The 2nd album was later reissued as 'Space Oddity' in 1972:
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/david_bowie/space_oddity_f5/

Ooh, thumbs down...real nice. Thanks whoever!

Edit - Wow...this is really sad. Why do people hand out thumbs down? Especially when everyone's put forth some really great answers here.

Bemarian - Nice comment. Who really cares if someone uses an internet site! All I know is that I didn't. Music is my life. And by the way, your answer really stands out from the many others here. Of course YOU didn't use an internet site.
You've got one incredible memory, listing all seven of those bands...haa!

Answer 3

The hard nosed bands were
DC5
Small Faces
Kinks
Animals
Yardbirds- love Smokestack Lightning, a typical blues record by Howling Wolf (Chester Burnett) brought over to England by merchant seamen and gobbled up by British youth. Similar riff to Susie Q.

There were a ton more English bands that never got a peep in the US market. I went to Europe in 1970 and was introduced to an Irish band Taste and guitarist Rory Gallagher. Flashy as any guitarist of the era, including Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck or Clapton.
Then there was the keyboard wiz Keith, with the band Nice. He went supergroup with the better known, and usually critically trashed band, Emerson Lake and Palmer.

Answer 4

1 Led Zeppelin
The bare bones raw power of what would become the greatest (IMO) band in history struck record shelves in 1969 with the force of a million watt lightning bolt under the name Led Zeppelin 1 and a song called Dazed & Confused that changed rock music forever
2 Pink Floyd
1967 forever changed the rock music scene and ushered in the glorious era of classic rock. A big big part of the rock landmark landscape of 67 was Floyd's Piper At The Gates of Dawn and the birth of a new genre...Space Rock, which I adore
3 Cream
The (Arguably excepting Rush) ultimate power trio. And one of the very first bands responsible for showing the world what chops and musicianship really meant.. Not to mention Clapton's wah wah pedal
4 John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Speaking of musicianship, Mayall's various sixties bands read like a who's who of 70's classic rock bands
5 The Animals
House Of The Rising Sun, need I say more?

Answer 5

From memory - not some websited internet list, mine are:

7: Peter and Gordon
6: Lulu
5: Dusty Springfield
4: Dave Clark Five
3: Moody Blues
2. Petula Clark
1: Kinks

Answer 6

It's gotta' be the Yardbirds.

I've got a vinyl copy of the Yardbirds with Sonny Boy Williamson I picked up at a Yard Sale 22 years ago that cooks.

Answer 7

The Kinks
The Yardbirds
The Moody Blues
Them
The Zombies

Answer 8

The Kinks

David Bowie

T-Rex

Mott the Hoople


The Kinks and Bowie absolutely have to be in the same class as`the Beatles, Stones, and the Who. Everybody else is below that. Not even Zeppelin makes it into that class.

Answer 9

I love Eric Burdon so I pick the Animals.

I was going to say Cream, but 1967 may be a little early. You have Clapton in the Yardbirds.

Spencer Davis
Mindbenders remember them, "To Sir with Love"



Donovan!!!!!! How could I forget him too!!!! "Season of the Witch"

Answer 10

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