The Grass Roots is tagged as: classic rock, 60s, oldies, rock, pop In the entire history of Rock n’ Roll; only 9 bands (including The Beatles) have charted more hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 than The Grass Roots. They hold the all-time attendance record for a one act U.S. concert of 600,000 people on July 4th, 1982 in Washington, DC. During a 6-year period (1967-1972) The Grass Roots set a record for being on the Billboard charts an unbelievable 307 straight weeks and have sold over 20 million records worldwide. The Grass Roots had a series of major hits — most notably “Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes” and “Two Divided by Love” — that help define the essence of the era’s best AM radio. Although the group’s members weren’t even close to being recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was next to irrelevant, the Grass Roots managed to chart 14 Top 40 hits, including seven gold singles and one platinum single, and two had hits collections that effortlessly went gold. The group’s history is also fairly complicated, because there were at least three different groups involved in the making of the songs identified as being by “the Grass Roots.” The Grass Roots was originated by the writer/produce... Read More About The Grass Roots Biography...  Send The Grass Roots ringtones to your cell
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