Rockbands

I have always wondered about the history behind naming of a rockband particularly of the ones which reads like "A and the B"; e.g Hootie and the Blowfish or Huey Lewis and the News. In this post, I will try to document as many of them as possible.

But why?

Just because!

I just love reading these names(loudly when I am by myself) and hope that someone else out there will also get some amusement and no-one will get hurt, hopefully! Obviously, I have googled to find many(read most) of them and have no idea which genre they belong to and which songs they have sang. But, I will try to listen to them over time, if time permits. Enjoy...

Hootie and the Blowfish

Huey Lewis and the News

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch(more like Hunky Mark and the Funky Bunch)

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Derek and the Dominos

Echo and the Bunnymen

Eddie and the Hotrods

Gerry and the Pacemakers

Tommy James and the Shondells

The Mamas and the Papas

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Country Joe and the Fish

Jason and the Scorchers

? and the Mysterians (my favorite so far, this exists, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Mark_%26_the_Mysterians)

That's all so far. I will add more as I come across...

Added on 02/27:

Thanks to the Oscars, I now have one more: Florence and the machine