Bill Deal & the Rhondels

Bill Deal & the Rhondels (who consisted, at one point, in their classic recording years, of Mike Kerwin and Jeff Pollard on trumpets, Ronny Rosenbaum on trombone, Ken Dawson on sax, Don Quisenberry on bass, and Ammon Tharp at the drum kit) were among the first and best of a cadre of big-band rock outfits that began showing up in the mid- to late '60s. Deal and his septet released five successive nationally charting singles in 1969 and 1970 with a soulful dance-rock sound that turned them into stars. Deal was born in 1944 in Portsmouth, VA, where his father, Noah, owned a resta...