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The Young Rascals is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Olympics and Syndicate of Sound. Those roots explain a lot about how The Young Rascals arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Herman's Hermits, The Box Tops, The Grass Roots, Paul Revere & The Raiders and Three Dog Night, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Pato Banton, The Shangri-Las, Pat Benatar, Lighter Shade Of Brown and David Cassidy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around The Young Rascals, reaching back through The Beatles and forward to Pato Banton. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Rascals are an American rock and blue-eyed soul band formed in Garfield, New Jersey, southeast of Paterson in 1965. The original lineup featured lead vocalist and keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, vocalist and percussionist Eddie Brigati, drummer Dino Danelli, and guitarist and vocalist Gene Cornish. Cavaliere and Brigati wrote the majority of the Rascals' original material.
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The Young Rascals connections
The Young Rascals grew out of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Olympics and Syndicate of Sound, shares an orbit with Herman's Hermits, The Box Tops, The Grass Roots and Paul Revere & The Raiders, went on to shape Pato Banton, The Shangri-Las, Pat Benatar and Lighter Shade Of Brown. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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