Bands! Bands! Bands!

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The Long Island Sound moniker has never been applied to the wealth of successful groups and performers in residence. To my mind, they are just as integral to the overall sound as those included.

There are more Long Island bands and Long Island artists than you can imagine.

There are tons of "Long Island" artists. My Long Island Sound includes:

• Aesop's Fables
• AK-47 (Stony Brook)
• Alessi
• Mose Allison (Smithtown)
• The Allman Brothers (Stony Brook...at least for one summer!)
• A Shade of Id (opened for The Hassles, Vanilla Fudge, etc.)
  
• Ashanti
• Attila (Hicksville)
• Aviator
• Baby (According to writer, Debbie Taylor, the lead singer, Sandy "Lady Man" Mann, "looked like the     after in a Mark Eden ad!")
• Balance
• Banchee
• Barnaby Bye
• Jeff Barry (East Meadow)
• The Beastie Boys (Brooklyn)
• Walter Becker (of Steely Dan) (Queens)
• Pat Benatar (Lindenhurst)
• Tony Bennett (Astoria)
• Klyph Black and Rumor Has It
• Blue Oyster Cult (Stony Brook)
• Blues Magoos
  
• Bobby and the Orbits
  
  
  Gary "U.S." Bonds (Wheatley Hills)
  
• Boomerang
• Oscar Brand (Great Neck)
• Bratz
• Harvey Brooks (Queens)
• Jackson Browne (Stony Brook...at least for one summer, wrote "These Days")
• Jimmy Buffet (North Haven)
• Bulldog
• Cactus
• Randy California (Queens)
• Mariah Carey (Greenlawn)
• The Frank Carillo Band (Frank is mostly known for his work on Peter Frampton's
      million sellers and for his other band, Doc Holliday)
• Harry Chapin (Huntington)
• Tom Chapin (Huntington Bay)
• Chuck D. (Roosevelt)
  
• Billy Cobham
  
• Commander Cody (Brightwaters)
• The Crests (Brooklyn)
• Crown Heights Affair (Brooklyn)
• The Cruz Project
• The Crystals
• Taylor Dayne (Baldwin)
• De La Soul (Amityville)
• Neil Diamond (Brooklyn)
• Kenny Dino (Great River)
• Doc Holliday
• Caroline Doctorow (Sag Harbor)
  
• Doc West
  Don and Juan (Brooklyn, Atlantic Beach, Long Beach)
  
• Naomi Ruth Eisenberg (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks) (Brooklyn)
• Ramblin' Jack Elliot (Brooklyn)
• Howard Emerson (Huntington)
• The Epic Splendor
• EPMD (Brentwood)
• Eric B. (Queens)
• Donald Fagan (of Steely Dan) (Queens)
• Billy Falcon (Rosedale)
• The Fat Boys (Brooklyn)
• Foghat (who built a studio, The Boogie Motel, in Port Jefferson)
• Forest
• Fotomaker
  The Freelance Vandals
  
• Frogs
• The Full Hand Band
• Mickey Hart (of The Grateful Dead) Brooklyn)
• Richie Havens (Brooklyn)
  

  (c) Richard Arfin 1987 Revised 2004 All Rights Reserved