Rockin' Robin Roberts

Rockin' Robin Roberts has a complete discography of only six songs, but a single line in one of them was the line that launched a thousand garage bands in the mid-'60s. Roberts was born in New York City in 1940, but grew up across the country in Tacoma, WA, where he was by all accounts a full-fledged slide rule-carrying science nerd in high school. But Roberts was also an amazingly charismatic and vibrant singer, and he was soon providing vocals for local group Little Bill & the Bluenotes, moving over to become a vocalist for the Wailers when the Bluenotes split up in 1959. Tw...