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1965 ⇨

Top 15 Artists Who Released their Debut Recording in 1964

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These artists released their first recording in 1964, which made them first eligible for the 1990 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Artists aleady inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are highlighted in orange.

1.	The Who
2.	The Kinks
3.	Rod Stewart
4.	Simon and Garfunkel
5.	Tina Turner
6.	Dusty Springfield
7.	The Zombies
8.	The Yardbirds
9.	The Animals
10.	Marianne Faithfull
11.	Little Walter
12.	The Moody Blues
13.	Them
14.	The Hollies
15.	Waylon Jennings

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Essential Debut Albums from 1964

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
Dusty Springfield	A Girl Called Dusty	☆
Simon and Garfunkel	Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.	☆
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	☆
The Animals	The Animals	☆
The Kinks	Kinks	☆

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Essential Debut Songs from 1964

Songs (?)		Wikipedia
Buffy Sainte-Marie	Universal Soldier	☆
Buffy Sainte-Marie	Now That the Buffalo's Gone	☆
Dusty Springfield	Wishin' And Hopin'	☆
Dusty Springfield	I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself	☆
Gloria Jones	Tainted Love	☆
Johnny Rivers	Memphis	☆
Marianne Faithfull	As Tears Go By	☆
Peter and Gordon	A World Without Love	☆
Phil Ochs	There But for Fortune	☆
Phil Ochs	Power and the Glory	☆
Simon & Garfunkel	Bleecker Street	☆
The Animals	The House of the Rising Sun	☆
The Dixie Cups	Chapel of Love	☆
The Dixie Cups	Iko Iko	☆
The Kinks	You Really Got Me	☆
The Kinks	All Day and All of the Night	☆
The Moody Blues	Go Now	☆
The Rivieras	California Sun	☆
The Who	I Can't Explain	☆
The Zombies	She's Not There	☆
Them	Gloria	☆

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