Your Musical Mount Rushmore

[BigTex]

Your four favorite musical acts. Completely subjective.

Here's mine:
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
The Moody Blues
Bruce Springsteen

[BillB]

Pop- I have a different country list

The Ink Spots
Early Bob Dylan
Chuck Berry
The Mamas & the Papas

[GFB]

Have lots of favorites..only putting one at the mountain top.

Gino Vanelli.

[Red Oak]

Hank Williams Sr., Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Benny Goodman.

[planosteve]

Have lots of favorites..only putting one at the mountain top.

Gino Vanelli.

He related to Milli Vanelli?

[Red Oak]

I haven't thought of Gino in decades, I had a girl friend that was crazy about him in the middle 70s.

[planosteve]

Simon and Garfinkle
Peter Paul and Mary
The Beach Boys
ABBA

[GFB]

I haven't thought of Gino in decades, I had a girl friend that was crazy about him in the middle 70s.

That's when he was at the top of his game.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cpQVAz7omxE

[Jami]

The Beatles
Elton John
Alan Jackson
Queen

[bodine]

Queen
ELO
Olivia Newton John
Weird Al

You asked...

[millergrovesue]

Beatles
Steely Dan
Pure Prairie League
Moody Blues
Simon and Garfunkle
Peter Paul and Mary

Gotta make my Mt. a lot wider.

I hadn't thought about Gino in years either. Used to play his stuff in my truck when driving to Austin.

[truep]

Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Eagles
Moody Blues
Late Beatles
Fleetwood Mac

[BigTex]

Unless I missed it . . . no Elvis . . . so far

[Red Oak]

You missed it

Like him or not, Elvis changed the Pop Music world like no other.

[BigTex]

You're right. I missed it.

Not dissing Elvis. I expected him to be a popular choice. Just not mine.

[BillB]

You missed it

Like him or not, Elvis changed the Pop Music world like no other.

I don't see it.
What would have been different if Elvis had never came along?
What change did he cause?
The real drivers of Rock music were already in place before Elvis- Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, etc.

[Red Oak]

Elvis took R&R mainstream, IMO.

And with perhaps the exception of Domino had hits earlier than those you mentioned.

It is interesting that Presley was younger than Berry, Domino, and Perriman; but they are still kicking and Elvis has been dead for nearly 40 years.