Comments on: Who Was the First ‘Fictional’ Band to Have a #1 Hit Song? https://popculturereferences.com/who-was-the-first-fictional-band-to-have-a-1-hit-song/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Sat, 24 Jun 2023 03:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Brian Cronin https://popculturereferences.com/who-was-the-first-fictional-band-to-have-a-1-hit-song/#comment-10678 Sat, 24 Jun 2023 03:10:05 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=5112#comment-10678 In reply to Fraser.

Oh, music history is filled with bands made up of thrown together session musicians, but they actually played the music, ya know? A fictional band here would be more like, say, Milli Vanilli, who didn’t do the actual song.

]]> By: Fraser https://popculturereferences.com/who-was-the-first-fictional-band-to-have-a-1-hit-song/#comment-10670 Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:34:44 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=5112#comment-10670 IIRC, Edison Lighthouse, which recorded “Love Goes (Where My Rosemary Grows)” were a fictional band — the producers just grabbed a bunch of studio musicians so they could release the song in-house.

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