"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out," Decca Recording Co. Rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
Other hopeful musicians of that era were performing in the 1959 Consolidated School Band.
Looking Back | February 24, 2026
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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Front Row: Peter Philbrick, Jere Nunan, Frank Severance, Peter Hoff, Philip Matthews, John Lombard, Willis Merrill. 2nd Row: Philip Stirk, Ruth Hendricks, David Andrews, Sheryl Johnson, Betty McPhail, ? Ficker, Grace Cluff, Martha Bibber, Jeanne Bradbury, Anne Steele, Beth Grant, Donna Hutchins, Amy Landry. 3rd Row: Ellen Phieffer, Suzanna Brooks, Sandra Perry, ? , Caroline Sipala, Donna Foss, Eloise Lembre, Sue Perry. 4th Row: Daniel Grant, Gretchen Nunan, Jocelyn Dill, Josie Hutchins, Annette Eaton, May Lou Clough, Lydia Spencer, Gerald Cluff.