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Popular music entered an era of "all hits", as numerous artists released recordings, beginning in the 1950s, as 45-rpm "singles" (with another on the flip side), and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the wide variety of records being made. Also, bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The developments of the Motown Sound (Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Marvelettes and so on), folk rock (The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Sonny & Cher and so on) and the British Invasion of bands from the UK (The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, The Who, The Rolling Stones and so on), are major examples of American listeners expanding from the folksinger, doo-wop and saxophone sounds of the 1950s and evolving to include psychedelic music.
The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a huge market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music produced by drug-culture, influenced bands such as The Beatles, the Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Small Faces, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, The Who, Sly & the Family Stone, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Animals, and The Incredible String Band, also for radical music in the folk tradition pioneered by Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta, Pete Seeger, and Joan Baez in the United States, and in England, Donovan was helping to create folk rock.
The Los Angeles and San Francisco Sound began in this period with many popular bands coming out of LA and the Haight-Ashbury district, well-known for its hippie culture. Such bands included Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Santana, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Mamas & the Papas, The Beach Boys and The Byrds.
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