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3 days ago · In the '60s, Smokey produced 26 top-forty hits with the Miracles. Smokey pursued his solo career in the '70s and was the Vice President of Motown Records until 1988.
4 days ago · The Temptations are an American vocal group noted for their smooth harmonies and intricate choreography. Recording primarily for Motown Records, they were among the most popular performers of soul music in the 1960s and ’70s and epitomized sophisticated cool.
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3 days ago · As of 2006/2007 they hit the International Gospel Music Chart with their song, “The Christmas Tree Catastrophe”. As of 2008 they climbed the charts with their song “The Boat Cannot Sink” to #1 in April on the top 100 International Gospel chart, #2 on the National Christian Country Chart and #38 on the Southern Gospel Chart.
3 days ago · In the 1960s and ’70s, Andy Warhol painted radical themes and radical icons, most famously Chairman Mao, but Arafat in the keffiyeh was not on his radar. The scarves were noticed by couturiers during the first intifada in the 1980s and picked up in popularity after terrorists flexed their muscle on 9/11.
5 days ago · During the 1970s, The Dozens, an urban African-American tradition of using playful rhyming ridicule, developed into street jive in the early '70s, which in turn inspired hip-hop by the late 1970s. Spoken-word artists such as The Watts Prophets, The Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron and Melvin Van Peebles were some innovators of early hip-hop.
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3 days ago · The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969.. While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western countries.