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Support acts The Exciters and Jackie DeShannon hanging out with The Beatles on their 1964 North American tour.
Photo by Paul McCartney, from Eyes of the Storm
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Support acts The Exciters and Jackie DeShannon hanging out with The Beatles on their 1964 North American tour.
Photo by Paul McCartney, from Eyes of the Storm
Motion Picture, November 1916
The Exciters —”Run Mascara”, 1965
A Merry Christmas to you all, from Carlyle Blackwell, Mary Pickford, John Bunny, Lillian Walker, Edwin August, Earle Williams, Marc MacDermott, Alice Joyce, G. M. Anderson, Crane Wilbur, Mabel Trunnelle, Francis Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Warren Kerrigan, Wally Van, Clara Young, Maurice Costello, and from all the other plays (whom Mr. Gallagher could not find room for), and also from the Motion Picture Magazine.
Illustration by Jack Gallagher in Motion Picture Magazine, January 1915. Internet Archive.
Lillian Walker, Bremerton Civil Rights activist at Legacy Washington
Sponsored by the Washington Secretary of State’s office, Legacy Washington features information on local state history based on primary sources and oral histories. This profile of Lillian Walker includes photographs and an oral history interview with Walker from 2009. A complete portrait of this founding member of the Bremerton NAACP and former postmaster can be found.
New Video: The story of The Exciters, an early 60s group from New York, who landed a top 5 hit with "Tell Him" and were touring with The Beatles before they had even finished high school.
They became synonymous with the 60s girl group explosion (though they were in fact a mixed-gender group) and influenced many British acts like Dusty Springfield and Manfred Mann. This is their story!