# When did bands start having "band names"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-bands-start-having-band-names/685897
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 11, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-bands-start-having-band-names/685897 "2014-04-11T21:52:27Z")
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-bands-start-having-band-names/685897/21 "2014-04-13T02:59:20Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> How about Bluesology, formed circa 1962?
Or [Sounds Incorporated](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_Incorporated), 1961?
By the way, one tidbit I got from Mark Lewisohn’s new book _Tune In_ is the fact that there was a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1957-58 called the Darktown. That’s the first example I know of of the phenomenon, which became common in the 60s, of giving the band a name that is neither “The Somethings” (i.e., plural) nor “The Something Quartet”/“Something Singers”/etc. (i.e., containing a “group” term) nor “Somebody and Somebody”. Prior to this, the earliest such group I knew of was the Essex (1962).
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### Author:  [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-bands-start-having-band-names/685897/22 "2014-04-13T03:49:45Z")
Plato and the Academy
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-bands-start-having-band-names/685897/23 "2014-04-13T05:20:49Z")
[The Divje Babe Flute](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_flute), thought to be 55,000 years old.
I’m guessing they called themselves “Ugh Ugh and the Ugh Ugh.”
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