Who Am I? Week #770

[Channel98]

Welcome to the final "Who Am I?" of 2025 – or, for those of you who design and/or print wedding invitations and graduation announcements, "The Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Five." There will be four clues. They may not all be necessary. This week's subject is an INSTRUMENTAL GROUP.

CLUE #1: Our first album was released in the 1950s.

 

[JHDK]

The Champs.

 

[Listener]

Lawrence Welk Orchestra

 

[Madison]

The Shadows

 

[scotchandcigar]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

 

[sadchild]

The Kingston Trio

 

[Wolf]

The Fireballs

 

[HecticArt]

Lawrence Welk Orchestra

That seems like a good timely guess.

I'll go with the Everly Brothers self titles debut album.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Guy Lombardo

 

[kingchuck69]

Santo and Johnny

 

[Channel98]

CLUE #2: We released more than 200 albums.

 

[Madison]

The Ventures

 

[JHDK]

Ok, everyone stop guessing except King.

King winning his own game would make me so very happy.

 

[Listener]

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

 

[sadchild]

I want to say The Ventures but King Wikipedia says their first album came out in 1960.

 

[Wolf]

There original band name "The Quarrymen" aka later evolved into The Beatles

 

[scotchandcigar]

The Wrecking Crew.

 

[Channel98]

CLUE #3: Only five of our albums charted in the United States. Three were in 1961. One of our albums went to number one in the United Kingdom.

 

[Madison]

Dave Brubeck Quartet

 

[scotchandcigar]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Maybe this will be like Mannheim Steamroller.