Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere & the Raiders were an American rock band.

History

Paul Revere (born 7 January 1938) first worked as a hairdresser. Later, he ran his own drive-in restaurant in Boise, Idaho.

As he had learned as a child piano and organ playing, he entered in his spare time on a small band. Beginning of the 1960s he met Mark Lindsay know, surrendering the bread to Paul's Restaurant. Mark became the new lead singer of Paul Revere & the Raiders band called 1961 and they got a record contract. The debut single was called Like Long Hair and arrived in the U.S. at number 38 of the charts.

Meanwhile, Paul Revere & the Raiders had in mind as a special gag in the occurrence Uniforms of the American War of Independence. In the following years, the quintet of small clubs played in the country until the night clubs of San Francisco. By 1969, the band released a number of successes. Then Mark Lindsay decided to try his luck as a soloist. However, he had only modest success, and in 1971 came back to the band back, now, however, only called The Raiders. Paul Revere had retired from active affairs and only made ​​the business side, while Lindsay was henceforth responsible for the artistic concerns. In this formation the band had its biggest hit Indian Reservation, which reached # 1 on the charts in the U.S. and with over four million copies sold was the biggest million-seller in the plate history of the label, Columbia Records.

The mid- 1970s, the group disappeared from the charts.

Members of the original cast

  • Paul Revere
  • Mark Lindsay
  • Drake Levin
  • Phil people
  • Mike Smith

Hit- Singles

  • Steppin 'Out 1965 ( U.S. No. 41 )
  • Just Like Me 1965 ( USA # 11 )
  • Kicks 1966 ( U.S. # 4 )
  • Hungry 1966 ( U.S. # 6 )
  • The Great Airplane Strike, 1966 ( U.S. # 19 )
  • Good Thing 1966 ( U.S. # 4 )
  • Ups And Downs, 1967 ( U.S. # 21 )
  • Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be? 1967 ( U.S. # 5 )
  • I Had A Dream 1967 ( USA 17th)
  • Peace Of Mind 1967 ( U.S. # 37 )
  • Too Much Talk 1968 ( U.S. No. 12 )
  • Do not Take It So Hard 1968 ( U.S. No. 18 )
  • Cinderella Sunshine 1968 ( U.S. number 42 )
  • Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon 1969 ( USA 16th place)
  • Let Me 1969 ( U.S. Platz 14, D number 31 )
  • We Gotta All Get Together 1969 ( U.S. # 32 )
  • Indian Reservation ( The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) 1971 ( U.S. Platz 1, D number 38 )
  • Birds Of A Feather 1971 ( USA 17th)
  • Country Wine 1972 ( U.S. # 38 )
  • Powder Blue Mercedes Queen 1972 ( U.S. number 57 )
  • Song Seller, 1972 ( U.S. No. 90 )
  • Love Music 1973 ( U.S. No. 56 )
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