THE OLYMPICS
A Los Angeles-based vocal group, The Challengers, secured a comfortable place in the extremely competitive music industry...after changing their name. As The Olympics, they quickly established a national presence, though it was short-lived. Considered a "one-hit wonder" in some parts of our great nation, they nevertheless enjoyed an eight-year run as relatively big fish in a big pond: the most populous corner of the U.S., Southern California. But there's more to this act with a sports-inspired name than just the humorous, infectious (and, alas, derivative) 1958 hit "Western Movies." In the long haul, Walter Ward and his quartet (sometimes a quintet) were as ... MORE ››
