Bands! Bands! Bands! and More Bands!

• Gale Force featuring lead singer Tom Farese, Johnny Gale (noted session man, hired guitar-slinger, musical director of "oldies" and doo-wop shows), and former Billy Joel Band member, Doug Stegmeyer
• Debbie Gibson (Merrick)
• Gerry Goffin (Queens)
• The Good Rats
• Gary Grappone
• Ellie Greenwich (East Meadow)
  
• The Hassles (Syosset, Jericho, Hicksville)
  
• Hog
• Kenny Holly (Bethpage)
• The Hot Soup ("played at the same place the Phaetons did around the same year"- Artie W.)
  The Wes Houston Band (Queens Village)
  
• Ikabar Crane
• The Illusion
• The Impalas (Brooklyn)
• Isis (a militant lesbian band whose eponymous album (Buddah 5605, 1974) featured a cover with a portrait of the band nude save for silver paint.)
• Tommy James (Glen Cove resident)
• Russell Javors (Massapequa)
• Jay-Z (Brooklyn)
• Joan Jett (Baltimore-born but Long Beach resident).
• The Jive Five (Brooklyn)
• Billy Joel (Hicksville, Lloyd Harbor, Amagansett)
• Johnny Society (Island Park)
• Michael Kamen (Queens)
• Steve Katz (Brooklyn)
• Eric Kaz (Brooklyn)
• Gerard Kenny (Glen Head)
  Carole King's "WrapAround Joy", 1974
  Carol King (Brooklyn, once a West hempstead resident)
  
• Michael Kenny (Glen Head)
• Kid 'n' Play (Queens)
• Kivetsky
• Al Kooper (Queens)
• T.C. Kross
• L.L.Cool J (Queens)
• Jimi LaLumia
• Robert Lamm (Chicago) (Brooklyn)
• John Lennon (had a home in Lloyd Harbor)
• L'il Kim (Brooklyn)
• Liquid Smoke
• Little Anthony & The Imperials (Brooklyn)
• Little Buster (Hemstead)
• Living Colour (Brooklyn)
• Guy Lombardo
• Paul McCartney (East Hampton)
• Marian McPartland (Muttontown)
• Johnny Maestro (Brookyn)
• Man
• Maxwell (Brookyn)
• Mazarin (Plainview) (Doug and Mark are still going strong every Saturday night at The Rock 'n' Roll Cafe in Greenwich Village. Tommy Williams, pyrotechnic guitarist and former musical director for Debby Gibson, is now with the band. During the spring of 1991, they represented Long Island at The South By Southwest (SXS) Conference in Austin, Texas. The name "Mazarin", by the way, refers to a winning racehorse owned by Doug and Mark's father.)
• Melanie (Queens)
• Barry Melton (of Country Joe & The Fish) (Brooklyn)
• The Mice ("staples at Kenny's in Williston Park"- Artie W.)
• Marcus Miller (Brookyn)
• Eddie Money (Island Trees)
• "Shadow" Morton (Brooklyn and Bethpage)
• Eddie Murphy (Roosevelt native and part-time rocker)
• Network
• Ira Newborn
• The Nickle Bag
• Tony Orlando (Brooklyn)
• Yoko Ono (East Hampton)
• The Persuasions (Brooklyn)
• Public Enemy ("The 'Velt" and "Chill City")