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The (Young) Rascals

THE (YOUNG) RASCALS

YEAR

1997

INDUCTED BY

Steven Van Zandt (E Street Band)

CATEGORY

Performers

The epitome of blue-eyed soul.

The Rascals set themselves above the pack with their excellent songwriting and instinct for adaptation. Their masterful pop-soul singles landed them a string of Sixties hits.

Felix Cavaliere

Felix Cavaliere

Dino Danelli

Dino Danelli

Eddie Brigati Jr.

Eddie Brigati Jr.

Gene Cornish

Gene Cornish

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Lenny Kaye

The Long Island Sound.

Let us caress it: thick slabs of Hammond B-3 organ, all furniture polish and drawbars and majesty; a chopping rhythmic guitar; a precise, almost clockwork sense of percussion; a vocalese whose tremolo vibratos as if doubling back on itself, riding a wave form of infinite shimmy. Pure show and go.

Surely the crowds at Shea Stadium waiting for the Beatles had no idea they were witnessing the birth of a phenomenon when, in the summer of 1965, promoter-manager Sid Bernstein flashed the Young Rascals are coming on the scoreboard.

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