Top 20 Songs from All Female Bands

Ok.. Let's not get confused here. An all-female band is not a girl group. The basic different is that the women in all-female band play all the music (meaning the instruments), whereas a girl group the members are solely vocalists and do not perform any of the music. Clear? Therefore, no Spice Girls, Desitny's Girl or Pussycat Dolls here. These are my Top 20 Songs from All Female Bands.


01. The Runaways - Cherry Bomb






02. The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter






03. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed







04. Dixie Chicks - Long Time Gone






05. Bond - Explosive







06. SheDaisy - Lucky For You





07. Josie & The Pussycats - 3 Small Words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AWRs5DuTEY&feature=related




08. Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine



09. The Donnas - Take It Off



10. Babes in Toyland - Ripe



11. Belle Stars - Iko Iko




12. Splendora - You're Standing on my Neck



13. The Slits - Typical Girls




14. Girlschool - Emergency






15. Klymaxx - I Miss You





16. Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIAAx2vAxic



17. Vixen - I Want You To Rock Me



18. L7 - Pretend We're Dead



19. Sleater Kinney - You're No Rock'n'Roll Fun




20. Las Chicas del Can - Waka Waka

Top 20 Songs from Supergroups

A Supergroup is "a band whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other bands". Sometimes Supergroups happen for just one event or album, sometimes they are highly successful, and sometimes they are a big flop. Still, they gather a lot of attention due to the previous success of their members. These are my top 20 Songs from Supergroups. BTW, the blog has a new look and feel. Click on the pics to see the vids. Thanks
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1. Emerson Lake & Palmer - From the Beginning
(Keith Emerson from The Nice, Greg Lake from King Crimson and Carl Palmer from Atomic Rooster)



2. Asia - Don't Cry
(John Wetton from King Crimson, Carl Palmer from ELP, Steve Howe from Yes, Geoff Downes from The Buggles)

3. The Traveling Wilburys - Handle Me With Care
(Keith Emerson from The Nice, Greg Lake from King Crimson and Carl Palmer from Atomic Rooster)

4. The Highwaymen - The Highwayman
(Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson)







5. Crosby, Stills & Nash - The Southern Cross
(David Crosby from The Byrds, Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield and Graham Nash from The Hollis)

6. The Jeff Beck Group - People Get Ready
(Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, and Ronnie Wood from The Rolling Stones)





7. Audioslave - Like a Stone
(Chris Cornell from Soundgarden plus Tom Morello, Tim Commeford and Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine)

8. Bad English - When I See You Smile
(John Waite, Neal Schon & Jonathan Cain from Journey)





9. Damn Yankees - High Enough
(Tommy Shaw from Styx, Ted Nugent, Jack Blades from Night Ranger, Michael Cartellone from Lynard Skynard)





10. Mike + the Mechanics - In The Living Years
(Paul Carrackvfrom Squeeze, Mike Rutherford from Genesis, Paul Young from Sad Café)






11. GTR - When the Heart Rules the Mind
(Steve Hackett from Genesis and Steve Howe from Yes and Asia)





12. Bad Company - Good Lovin' Gone Bad
(Paul Rodgers from Free, Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople, Buz Burell from King Crimson)




13. Velvet Revolver - I Fall to Pieces
(Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots, Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum from Guns N' Roses, Dave Kusher from Wasted Youth)

14. G3 - Rockin' in the Free World
(Joe Satrini, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen)

15. The Firm - Radioactive
(Paul Rodgers from Bad Company and Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin)

16. Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
(Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Windwood)

17. Heaven & Hell - Bible Black
(Ronnie James Dio & Vinnie Appice from Dio, Tommy Iommi, Gezzler Butler from Black Sabbath)

18. Alcatrazz - God Blessed Video
(Graham Bonett from Rainbow and Yngwie Malmsteen)

19. The Dirty Mac - Yer Blues
(John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards. Mitch Mitchell)

20. Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants
(Dave Grohl from Nirvana and Foo Fighters, John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin)

Top 20 Jim Steinman Songs

Jim Steinman's music has always been about power and passion on an almost operatic scale.His productions can be described as thunderous rock played by a sweeping orchestra with background harmonies crashing against it all like waves against a cliff face - Dazzling in it's beauty, frightening in it's power.The Lord of Excess has produced some of the greatest rock anthems of all time. I bet you didn't know that all of these great songs were written by the same hand. These are my top 20 Jim Steinman songs.


1. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram / On a silver black phantom bike / When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry / And we're all about to see the light / Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole / Everything is stunted and lost / And nothing really rocks / And nothing really rolls / And nothing's ever worth the cost



2. Fire Inc - Tonight is What it Means to be Young

I've got a dream 'bout an angel on the beach and the perfect waves are starting to curl / his hair is flying out in ribbons of gold and his touch has got the power to stun / I've got a dream 'bout an angel in the forest enchanted by the edge of a lake / his body's flowing in the jewels alive and the earth below is starting to shake / but I don't see any angels in this city / I don't hear any holy choirs sing and if I can't get an angel / I can still get a boy / and a boy'd be the next best thing / the next best thing to an angel/ a boy would be the next best thing



3. Meat Loaf & Lorraine Crosby - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Will you hold me sacred? / Will you hold me tight? / Can you colorize my life I'm so sick of black and white? / Can you make it a little less old? / Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands? / Can you build an Emerald city with these grains of sand? / Can you give me something that I can take home?





4. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

And I need you now tonight and I need you more than ever / And if you only hold me tight We'll be holding on forever / And we'll only be making it right 'cause we'll never be wrong / Together we can take it to the end of the line / Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time (all of the time) / I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark / We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks / I really need you tonight, forever's gonna start tonight / Forever's gonna start tonight




5. Jim Steinman - Rock'n'Roll Dreams Come True


There's always something magic / There's always something new / And when you really, really need it the most / That's when rock and roll dreams come through / The beat is yours forever / The beat is always true / And when you really, really need it the most / That's when rock and roll dreams come through...for you...





6. Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me Now


I finished crying in the instant that you left / And I can't remember where or when or how / And I vanished every memory you and I have ever made / When you touch me like this / And you hold me like that / It's so hard to believe but it's all coming back to me




7. Air Supply - Making Love Out of Nothing at All

Everytime I see you all the rays of the sun are streaming through the waves in your hair / And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes like a spotlight / The beating of my heart is a drum and it's lost / And it's looking for a rhythm like you / You can take the darkness from the pit of the night / And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright




8. Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero


Somewhere after midnight in my wildest fantasy / Somewhere just beyond my reach / There's someone reaching back for me / Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat / It's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet / Up Where the mountains meet the heavens above / Out where the lightning splits the sea / I could swear that there's someone somewhere / Watching me / Through the wind and the chill and the rain / And the storm and the flood / I can feel his approach / Like a fire in my blood




9. Pandora's Box - Original Sin (Natives Are Restless)


It's not enough to make the nightmares go away / It's not enough to make the tears run dry / It's not enough to live a little better every day / Everything that they taught us was nothing but lies / Everything that they bought us was nothing but bribes / But it'll all be over now / All I wanted was a piece of the night / I never got an equal share / When the stars are out of sight / And the moon is down / The natives are so restless tonight





10. Barbra Streisand - Left in the Dark


I should have known that it was coming to this / But I must have been blind / I bet you still got a trace of her love in your eyes / and you've still got her eyes on your mind / You swore you'd be with me at 7 o'clock / Now it's a quarter to 3 / And whatever you got and whoever it was / I guess you couldn't get it from me / Whatever you got and whoever it was / I guess you couldn't get it from me




11. Bonnie Tyler & Todd Rundgren - Loving You is a Dirty Job

When the sky is falling and you're looking round for somewhere to hide / Did you ever call out to someone / Did you ever call out to me, I've never been gone / I've been right here by your side / There ain't nothin' but clouds / There ain't nothin' but clouds in your eyes / Why don't you believe it when you finally found the truth / You've been drinking poison water from the fountain of youth / Why don't you stop tearing up everyone you need the most / You're so busy trying to get even / You never even try to get close




12. Fire Inc - Nowhere Fast

Lying in your bed on a Saturday night / you're sweatin' buckets and it's not even hot / but your brain has got the message / and it's sending it out / to every nerve and every muscle you've got / you've got so many dreams / that you don't know where to put 'em / so you'd better turn a few of 'em loose / your body's got a feeling that it's starting to rust / you'd better rev it up and put it to use





13. Meat Loaf & Ellen Foley - Paradise by the Dashboard Lights

I couldn't take it any longer / Lord I was crazed / And when the feeling came upon me / Like a tidal wave / I started swearing to my god and on my mother's grave / That I would love you to the end of time / I swore that I would love you to the end of time! / So now I'm praying for the end of time / To hurry up and arrive / 'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you / I don't think that I can really survive / I'll never break my promise or forget my vow / But God only knows what I can do right now / I'm praying for the end of time / It's all that I can do / Praying for the end of time, / So I can end my time with you!!





14. Meat Loaf - Two Out Three Ain't Bad


You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach / You'll never drill for oil on a city street / I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks / But there ain't no Coup de Ville / Hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box





15. Tom Jones - Vaults of Heaven

The keys to the vaults of heaven / May be seen in a pure child's eyes / The keys to the vaults of heaven / May be heard in our desperate cries / Open up the vaults / Open up the vaults / We've got to find the keys / The nights have been growing darker / Even darker now than sin / We'll open the vaults of heaven / The glories are there within




16. Jim Steinman - Stark Raving Love

They're howling up at the moon and moaning under the stars / Prowling in the alley and stalking all the prey in the bars / It started out as a whisper but it's building right up into a shriek / You don't say nothing but your body really knows how to speak




17. Meat Loaf - You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth

It was a hot summer night / Beach was burning / Fog crawling over the sand / When I listen to your heart I hear the whole world turning / I see the shooting stars falling through your trembling hands / You were licking your lips and lipstick shining / Dying just to ask for a taste / Lying together in a silver lining / By the light of the moon / You know there's not another moment / Not another moment / Not another moment to waste




18. Barry Manilow - Read'em and Weep

Well, I could tell you "goodbye" or maybe "See you around" with just a touch of a sarcastic "thanks"! / We started out with a bang and at the top of the world / Now the guns are exhausted and the bullets are blanks and everything's blank! / If I could only find the words then I would write it all down / If I could only find a voice I would speak / Oh, it's there in my eyes, oh, can't you see me tonight / Come on and look at me and read 'em and weep!




19. Tina Arena - Whistle Down the Wind

Make it clear and strong / So the whole night long / Every signal that you send / Until the very end / I will not abandon you my precious friend / So try and stem the tide / Then you'll raise a banner / Send a flare up in the sky / Try to burn a torch / And try to build a bonfire




20 Meat Loaf - A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste

So many things in your life that your bound to regret / Why didn't I do that? Why didn't I do this? / So many chances you lost that'll you'll never forget / Why didn't I make it? Why didn't I take it right there? / The loneliest words you'll ever know. / "If only, if only it was so" / The emptiest words that they'll ever be. / "It could have been me. It could have been me" / You'll have to pay for it later. / If you don't get it when its going for free

Top 20 Aerosmith Songs

A few days ago, Steven Tyler and the boys performed down here for the first time since 1994 and blew the roof off. Back in 1994, there was an incident at the concert that resulted in someone's death. This time around, the only real incident, apart from an amazing performance, was a 2-hour traffic jam to exit the venue. Hail Aerosmith! These are my Top 20 Aerosmith songs.

BTW, be warned that most of the following texts are not mine but stolen from different sources...


1. Dream On:

There is so much that can be said about this song and what makes it the best Aerosmith song ever released, but it is really unnecessary. This song speaks for itself.



2. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing:

“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” became Aerosmith’s most famous song and first number one hit after the release of the blockbuster film Armageddon. American Idol judge Simon Cowell considers it “one of the great songs of all time” and it was even nominated for an Academy Award. Hard to believe that songwriter Diane Warren originally wrote the song for Celine Dion.



3. Walk This Way:

Though the original version was released in 1975, it is more notable for the revamped edition with rap legends Run DMC from 1986. This version not only began the rap/rock movement, it also resurrected Aerosmith’s career. “Walk This Way” features one of the most famous guitar riffs of all time.



4. Amazing:

Considered by many fans to be Aerosmith’s signature song, “Dream On” is a timeless classic. The dreamy piano intro and Tyler’s wailing vocals are legendary. The chord progression has been imitated and mirrored countless times in popular music, a testament to the quality of the original song.



5. Janie's Got a Gun:

Aerosmith’s darkest and most haunting song, the lyrics deal with a daughter who takes revenge on her sexually abusive father. Many lyrics were changed to make the song more commercial, including the original title: “Danny’s Got a Gun.”



6. Livin' on the Edge:

Another song about social issues, “Livin’ on the Edge” was inspired by the Los Angeles riots of 1992. It has been a live concert staple for years and even won a Grammy award in 1993.




7. Sweet Emotion:

Allegedly written about Joe Perry’s wife (a contributing factor to the drama that would later drive the members to disband in the 1980s), “Sweet Emotion” was Aerosmith’s first breakthrough single. The song features a notable bass line by Hamilton as well as one of the most famous uses of the guitar talk box by Perry.




8. Lightning Strikes:

They were falling apart. The album sucked but the song was great.




9. Crazy:

Off of 1994’s Get a Grip, “Crazy” is infamous for its music video. The risque video features Aerosmith vid-staple Alicia Silverstone as well as the first appearance by Liv Tyler, lead singer Steven Tyler’s daughter.




10. Dude (Looks Like a Lady):

Co-written by Desmond Child and inspired by the California lingo and look of Motley Crue, “Dude” is one of Aerosmith’s more lighthearted tunes. Audiences may remember the song’s brilliant inclusion in the film Mrs. Doubtfire.




11. Cryin':

The music video for the song features the first appearance of Alicia Silverstone in the band's videos. Love it when she gives us the finger at the end.



12. Jaded:

Good song, good video, but the single's artwork, featuring a naked girl holding an apple on the cover, really catches your eye.




13. Pink:

I simply love anaphoras and this one is fun!




14. Rag Doll:

It's naughty and fun and makes the listener want to watch and move a little.




15. Love in an Elevator:

Second floor, hardware, children's wear, lady's lingerie. Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler...going down?




16. What It Takes:

This song pulls back to the roots of Aerosmith combining the blues and rock sound as only Aerosmith can.




17. Back in the Saddle:

The electrifying first cut off Aerosmith’s 1976 album Rocks, “Back in the Saddle” is a swaggering, powerful bluesy-rock song. Joe Perry’s serpentine guitar riff chugs under Steven Tyler’s banshee cry of “I’m back!” as the song kicks into high gear.




18. Angel:

"Angel" is still a beautiful song with great lyrics made believable by Steven Tyler.




19. Eat the Rich:

The song is a fan favorite, despite not having much mainstream success, and always draws a rousing reaction from crowds when it used as the band's opening song in concerts.




20. Come Together:

A Beatles' cover from the movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Aerosmith played the ruthless Future Villian Band (FVB).

Top 20 Ronnie James Dio Songs

A few days ago, one of the greats passed away. Ronnie James Dio had an amazing career that spawned several decades. He was the original vocalist of Rainbow. He took over vocals in Black Sabbath when Ozzy left, injecting new life onto a fading band. Then, he went solo to a very successful career fronting his own band, Dio. Finally, for the last few years, he reunited with Tommy Iommi and the other guys from Sabbath to form the Heaven & Hell band. Here's to a great man with a great voice... These are my 20 Dio songs.


1. Dio - Rainbow in the Dark





2. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell




3. Rainbow - Man in the Silver Mountain





4. Dio - Rock'n'Roll Children




5. Black Sabbath - Children of the Sea




6. Dio - Hungry for Heaven



7. Black Sabbath - Neon Knights



8. Dio - The Last in Line



9. Dio - Holy Diver



10. Hear'n'Aid - Stars



11. Egypt (The Chains are On)




12. Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules




13. Black Sabbath - Sign of the Southern Cross



14. Rainbow - Stargazers



15. Dio - We Rock




16. Rainbow - Kill the King




17. Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers




18. Dio - King of Rock'n'Roll



19. Heaven & Hell - Bible Black



20. Tenacious D - Kickapoo

Top 20 Minor Hits from Major Artists

Everybody remembers 2 hits Michael Jackson recorded with Paul McCartney: "Ebony & Ivory" and "Say Say Say". Right? Well, did you know there was a third song? "The Man" enjoyed a very modest success resulting in very limited airplay and no video. Still, it was a good song. A song that most people don't know about or have forgotten. This is the spirit of this list. These are forgotten "great" minor hits and you will probably not find in a Greatest Hits album. These are my Top 20 Minor hits from Major Artists.

1. Elton John - In Neon



2. Billy Joel - Angry Young Man



3. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City



4. Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday




5. Madonna - The Gambler



6. Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney - The Man



7. Men at Work - Dr Heckyl & Mr Jive



8. Prince – Mountains



9. ABBA – Departure (I Wonder)



10. Aerosmith - The Lightning Strikes



11. Dire Straits – Skateway



12. Bee Gees - He's a Liar



13. Heart - City's Burning



14. Queen - Calling All Girls



15. Rod Stewart - The Motown Song



16. Styx – Haven’t We Been Here Before



17. Rolling Stones - Little TA



18. Beach Boys - Spirit of America



19. Paul McCartney - Mrs Vanderbilt



20. The Who - Don't Let Go the Coat

Top 20 Songs from Fictional TV & Movie Bands

This is an odd list. Some fictional bands are put together for the purposes of a movie or a TV show and do not exist beyond their own universe. However, some fictional bands start off as fictitious, only to later become real due to their popularity. Here are my top 20 songs from Fictional TV & Movie Bands.

1. Spinal Tap - Stonehenge

This is the greatest fictional band that ever lived. We met them as the fictional subject of Rob Reiner’s "This is Spinal Tap", one of the best mockumentaries / rockumentaries ever. In fact, in the years since the 1984 film, the three actors who portrayed the band members (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) have played occasional concerts, made TV appearances, and even released music under the Spinal Tap name.

2. Daydream Believer – The Monkees

The Monkees were "assembled" for a live action TV series that would compete with The Beatles cartoons. At the start, the band members provided vocals, and were given some performing and production opportunities, but they eventually fought for and earned the right to collectively supervise all musical output under the band's name. The group undertook several concert tours, allowing an opportunity to perform as a live band as well as on the TV series. By 1970, they had achieved 6 top ten singles (including 4 Billboard Hot 100 number ones) and several gold and platinum records.

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3. Eddie & The Cruisers - On the Dark Side

When the Eddie & the Cruisers film came out, “On the Dark Side” by Eddie & The Cruisers was released and flopped in the charts. A year later, after several successful screenings in HBO, the studio re-released the song under the name of the real Jersey band that had recorded the songs for the film, John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band. The song re-entered the charts and sky-rocketed to number one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWddBTxPDYQ

4. Ellen Aim and the Attackers - Tonight it’s What It Means to Be Young

In the 1984 film Streets of Fire, Ellen Aim and the Attackers performed "Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young" with members of new wave band Face to Face playing the part of the Attackers and actress Diane Lane lip-syncing to singer Laurie Sargent's vocals. When the Streets of Fire soundtrack came out, the song was attributed to Fire Inc., a Wagnerian rock ensemble composer Jim Steinman assembled to record two songs for the movie. A fictional band recording the music for another fictional band...

5. The Archies - Sugar, Sugar

The Archies is a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews and a group of fictional characters of the Archie universe for the animated TV series, The Archie Show. The fictional band's music was recorded by session musicians featuring Ron Dante on vocals and released as a series of singles and albums. Their most successful song, "Sugar, Sugar", became one of the biggest hits of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1972

6. The Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit

The Blues Brothers started out as a musical sketch in Saturday Night Live, where comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd played Jake and Elwood Blues – The Blues Brothers. After several appearances in SNL, the band released an album and starred in a film, The Blues Brothers, created around its characters.

7. The Commitments - Try a Little Tenderness

The Commitments is a 1987 movie about a group of unemployed young people in Dublin, Ireland who start a soul band. The interesting thing here is that although the group in the film was entirely fictional, the cast later began touring as a real band known as "The Stars from The Commitments".

8. Josie & The Pussycats – Three Small Words

Josie & The Pussycats began as an Archie comic book that later developed into a Saturday morning cartoon series. In preparation for the 1970 cartoon series, Hanna-Barbera began working on putting together a real-life "Josie and the Pussycats" girl group, who would provide the singing voices of the girls in the cartoons and also cut an album as well. After interviewing 500 finalists, they cast Cathy Douglas, Cherie Moor and Patrice Holloway, who recorded an album and six singles. In 2001, Universal Pictures released a Josie & The Pussycats film starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid. The songs in the film were actually performed with Kay Hanley, former singer for Letters to Cleo, as the singing voice of Josie while the three actresses sang backup vocals on many of the songs. Josie & The Pussycats live twice...

9. The Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of Constant Sorrow

The Soggy Bottom Boys are the fictitious Depression-era "old-timey music" trio and accompaniment from the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?" played in the film by George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson. The voices behind the Soggy Bottom Boys are well known bluegrass musicians and the song “Man of Constant Sorrow” won a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

10. The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You

The Partridge Family was a 1970 sit-com about a widowed mother and her five children who start a music career as a traveling band. The Partridge Family became an instant phenomenon, not only as a TV show but as a band that produced actual hit songs. David Cassidy, who starred in the show as Shirley Jones' eldest son and sang lead vocals, became an overnight teen idol. In response to his instant fame, producers quickly signed him as a solo act as well. Although the Partridge Family did not actually exist as a live band, Cassidy began touring with his own group of musicians, performing Partridge songs as well as hits from his own albums.

11. Hannah Montana - The Best of Both Worlds

Hannah Montana is a Disney Channel series that focuses on a girl who lives a double live as an average school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cirus, daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus) by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8iyHyxlzW8

12. Dusty & Lefty - Bad Jokes

Played by Woody Harrelson & John C. Riley for the 2006 Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion, based on the public radio show of the same name created by Garrison Keillor.

13. The Banana Splits – The Tra La La La Song

The Banana Splits were Fleegle the Beagle, Bingo the Gorilla, Drooper the Lion, and Snorky the Elephant and hosted the Banana Splits Adventure Hour that featured both animated and live action segments. In 1968, The Banana Splits released an album titled We're the Banana Splits. The show’s theme song, titled "The Tra La La La Song", released as a single, peaked at number 97 on Billboard's Top 100 in February 1969.

14. The Folksmen –Old Joe’s Place

The three actors who made Spinal Tap famous (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) reunited as a folk trio for the 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind about a folk music reunion concert and the three groups that must come together to perform on national television for the first time in years.

15. Stillwater - Fever Dog

Stillwater is a fictional band fronted by actors Jason Lee and Billy Crudup for the 2000 film “Almost Famous”.

16. The Bandits – Catch Me

In the 1997 German movie, four female inmates form a band while in prision. When they are slated to perform at a police ball and take the opportunity to escape. While on the run, the heroines perform concerts and attain fame as a rock band. The soundtrack of the movie became a hit in Germany, selling almost 700.000 copies.

17. The Wonders – That Thing You Do

According to the 1996 film written and directed by Tom Hanks, The Wonders was a one-hit wonder band. In the movie, The Wonders rise to brief stardom on the strength of "That Thing You Do", a song written as a wistful ballad but which becomes an up-tempo rocker during the band's first performance at a talent show. Written and composed for the film by Adam Schlesinger, bassist for Fountains of Wayne, and released on the film's soundtrack, the song became a genuine hit for The Wonders in 1996 peaking at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100.

18. Strange Fruit – The Flame Still Burns

In the 1998 film Still Crazy, Strange Fruit is a fictional rock band from the 1970’s who, after being split up for several decades, are convinced to get back together to perform at a reunion of the same concert venue where they played their last gig.

19. Mitch & Mickey – A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow

This is another fictional band from the 2003 mockumentary “A Mighty Wind”. Mitch & Mickey are a folk duo played by seasoned actors Eugene Levy & Catherine O’Hara. The song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow", was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song, and was performed at the 76th Oscar Ceremony by Levy and O'Hara (in character).

20. DriveShaft - You All (Everybody)

In the TV series Lost, Charlie Pace was a former member of a fictional one-hit wonder band named DriveShaft and “You All (Everybody)” was their claim to fame.