Off Topic FNMT - Recalling artists/bands first hit that hooked you ?

Was just watching "Breakfast" on BBC1 today and there was an interview with Marty Wilde(81) and his 2 daughters, who've just released an LP together. Eighty bloody one !!! An he still looks good, his voice remarkably good.
Anyhow - how far can you go back to recall a popular hit that turned you on to a particular artist/band you have followed ever since that first exposure ? No restriction on age of song

This one's from '58...reached # 4

His follow up hit (# 3) a few months later was a cover of one of Richie Valens's big hits...

 

Saw Marty Wilde in Leeds in 1969. He was doing a rock and roll revival show back then. Introducing every song with "I want to take you all the way back to...". Which went well until he came to his last release which he introduced with "This one takes us back all the way to 1968..."
Bet he never thought he would still be pulling in crowds over half a century later.

 

He was still pretty good in 1969. Don't suppose you or any of us, will be as good at the age he was compared to our teens.

 

"The weekend starts here..." Then saw this. Been a fan of Van the Man ever since. Though, like a lot of others it was the B side which really grabbed.

 

the first band that I got into (more so than The Beatles / Stones / etc )

 

and and early song from my current choice

 

but this is the one that triggered the appreciation of the band 3 years earlier...

 

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Always liked this one the best of the Denny Laine era. Only just scraped into the top 30.

 

I was going out with a lass in 1968 and she had been to a Marmalade gig. I She said they stopped the show with a number called Piece Of My Heart. I told her it was an Erma Franklin number. A while later I came across the Cheap Thrills album by Big Brother and the Holding Company. Hadn't heard of them as the Monterey film hadn't come out. Noticed Piece Of My Heart was on it so bought it. The But the track which grabbed me the most was this. And in that roundabout way I came across the singer who remains my favourite artist over 50 years later.

 

That would explain your avatar then. I have the same album. Brilliant performer. Sad early demise.

 

50 years on Sunday since she passed away.

 

McCoy Tyner quintet, Copenhagen 1984, playing 'In a Sentimental Mood'. Got me into jazz. The vid is actually from a Switzerland concert but it was on the same tour, starts at about 11:00 mins in.

 

Unbelievable - where's it all gone ? Still - the music is embossed on the memory & readily available.