There was a fad for animal-themed band names in the 60s, which the Internet tells me was started by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. I think there was a sub-fad within it for misspelling the animal name. I can only think of The Beatles, The Byrds, and The Monkees, but I would have sworn there were more.
Later examples are Def Leppard, Phish and Gorillaz. Can you think of any others? The rules are, there must be a homophone of an animal name in the band name, as a separate word, and the animal name must be misspelled. The separate word requirement means a band named “Ramoosi” doesn’t qualify even though it has “moos” in it. I’m especially interested in whether there are more examples from the 60s, but any era is fine.
Do The Blackbyrds count? The Byrds were already mentioned, so it seems a bit redundant, but this is a separate band with at least one modest hit in the 70s.
(Their name apparently was derived from the real-life last name of trumpeter Donald Byrd. Byrd was a teacher at Howard University, where the founding members of the band were students, and he helped them get established, then later acted as a producer for their songs and albums.)
