In the 70’s there was a great Japanese band called “Peanuts” that did a lot of the doo-wop, bee-hive hair style, Petula Clark, Francis Sinatra, Pips, etc, fantastic music. The beginnings of amplified music in the late 40s and early 50s was a watershed moment for American music culture, and it took almost 60 years to bring that beauty to the mainstream (traditional Blues, Carribean Calypso, and slave music), (I could go on and on on this topic...)