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James Holvay helped create Chicago’s famous horn-rock sound in the 1960s
James Holvay is best known for writing the Buckinghams’ “Kind of a Drag” and cofounding the Mob, but he’s still making music more than 50 years later.
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A tragic plane crash denied horn-rock juggernaut Chase their legacy
Bill Chase’s virtuosic nine-piece band, powered by four trumpets, belongs on the same pedestal as Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
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The Mob pioneered Chicago’s ‘horn rock’ sound—and wore dark pinstriped suits with carnations
This big, ambitious band scored a couple Billboard hits and wrote several more for other artists, but their discography ends in 1977.