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The Grass Roots

Rock

The next The Grass Roots concert is scheduled for Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ, United States. See all 3 upcoming concerts
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Listen to Let's Live for Today by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Let's Live for TodayThe Grass Roots
Listen to Midnight Confessions (Single) by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Midnight Confessions (Single)The Grass Roots
Listen to Temptation Eyes (Original) by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Temptation Eyes (Original)The Grass Roots
Listen to Let's Live For Today (Uncensored Version) by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Let's Live For Today (Uncensored Version)The Grass Roots
Listen to Sooner or Later by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Sooner or LaterThe Grass Roots
Listen to I'd Wait a Million Years by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
I'd Wait a Million YearsThe Grass Roots
Listen to Two Divided by Love by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Two Divided by LoveThe Grass Roots
Listen to Baby Hold On by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Baby Hold OnThe Grass Roots
Listen to Where Were You When I Needed You by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Where Were You When I Needed YouThe Grass Roots
Listen to Let's Live For Today (Rerecorded) by The Grass Roots, see lyrics, music video & more!
Let's Live For Today (Rerecorded)The Grass Roots

Upcoming Concerts for The Grass Roots

  • Jun
    10
    Jun 10, 2025
    PNC Bank Arts Center
    Holmdel
  • Jul
    23
    Jul 23, 2025
    Pacific Amphitheatre
    Costa Mesa
  • Apr
    18
    Apr 18, 2026
    State Theatre New Jersey
    New Brunswick

Latest Release

Listen to Temptation Eyes / Sooner or Later (Rerecorded Version) - Single by The Grass Roots
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More albums from The Grass Roots

Listen to Their Best (Rerecorded Version) by The Grass Roots
ALBUMTheir Best (Rerecorded Version)The Grass Roots
Listen to The Complete Singles 1965-1973 by The Grass Roots
ALBUMThe Complete Singles 1965-1973The Grass Roots
Listen to Golden Legends: The Grass Roots (Re-Recorded Versions) by The Grass Roots
ALBUMGolden Legends: The Grass Roots (Re-Recorded Versions)The Grass Roots
Listen to Symphonic Hits (Rerecorded) by The Grass Roots
ALBUMSymphonic Hits (Rerecorded)The Grass Roots
Listen to Temptation Eyes by The Grass Roots
ALBUMTemptation EyesThe Grass Roots
Listen to The Grass Roots: Their Very Best (Rerecorded Version) by The Grass Roots
ALBUMThe Grass Roots: Their Very Best (Rerecorded Version)The Grass Roots
Listen to Move Along by The Grass Roots
ALBUMMove AlongThe Grass Roots
Listen to Leaving It All Behind by The Grass Roots
ALBUMLeaving It All BehindThe Grass Roots
Listen to Lovin' Things by The Grass Roots
ALBUMLovin' ThingsThe Grass Roots
Listen to Feelings by The Grass Roots
ALBUMFeelingsThe Grass Roots
Listen to Let's Live For Today by The Grass Roots
ALBUMLet's Live For TodayThe Grass Roots
Listen to Let's Live for Today by The Grass Roots
ALBUMLet's Live for TodayThe Grass Roots
Listen to Where Were You When I Needed You by The Grass Roots
ALBUMWhere Were You When I Needed YouThe Grass Roots

The Grass Roots's Popular Music Videos

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Watch Temptation Eyes (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, December 6, 1970) music video by The Grass Roots
Temptation Eyes (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, December 6, 1970)
The Grass Roots
Watch Child Of Our Times (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 31, 1965) music video by Barry McGuire & The Grass Roots
Child Of Our Times (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 31, 1965)
Barry McGuire & The Grass Roots

About The Grass Roots

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Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Formed
1965
Genre
Rock
The Grass Roots had a series of major hits -- most notably "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions," "Temptation Eyes," and "Two Divided by Love" -- that help define the essence of the era's best AM radio. Although the group's members weren't even close to being recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was next to irrelevant, the Grass Roots managed to chart 14 Top 40 hits, including seven gold singles and one platinum single, and two had hits collections that effortlessly went gold. The group's history is also fairly complicated, because there were at least three different groups involved in the making of the songs identified as being by "the Grass Roots." The Grass Roots was originated by the writer/producer team of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri as a pseudonym under which they would release a body of Byrds/Beau Brummels-style folk-rock. Sloan and Barri were contracted songwriters for Trousdale Music, the publishing arm of Dunhill Records, which wanted to cash in on the folk-rock boom of 1965. Dunhill asked Sloan and Barri to come up with this material, and a group alias under which they would release it. The resulting "Grass Roots" debut song, "Where Were You When I Needed You," sung by Sloan, was sent to a Los Angeles radio station, which began playing it. The problem was, there was no "Grass Roots." The next step was to recruit a band that could become the Grass Roots. Sloan found a San Francisco group called the Bedouins that seemed promising on the basis of their lead singer, Bill Fulton. Fulton recorded a new vocal over the backing tracks laid down for the P.F. Sloan version of the song. The Bedouins were, at first, content to put their future in the hands of Sloan and Barri as producers, despite the fact that the group was more blues-oriented than folk-rock. However, the rest of the group was offended when Fulton was told to record their debut single, a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Ballad of a Thin Man," backed by studio musicians. When that single, released in October of 1965, became only a modest hit, the Bedouins -- except for their drummer, Joel Larson -- departed for San Francisco, to re-form as the Unquenchable Thirst. Sloan and Barri continued to record. "Where Were You When I Needed You" was released in mid-'66 and peaked at number 28, but the album of the same name never charted. Amid the machinations behind Where Were You When I Needed You, no "real" Grass Roots band existed in 1966. A possible solution came along when a Los Angeles band called the 13th Floor submitted a demo tape to Dunhill. This group, consisting of Warren Entner (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Creed Bratton (lead guitar), Rob Grill (vocals, bass), and Rick Coonce (drums), was recruited and offered the choice of recording under their own name, or to take over the name the Grass Roots, put themselves in the hands of Sloan and Barri, and take advantage of the Grass Roots' track record. They chose the latter, with Rob Grill as primary lead vocalist. The first track cut by the new Grass Roots in the spring of 1967 was "Let's Live for Today," a new version of a song that had been an Italian hit, in a lighter, more up-tempo version, for a band called the Rokes. "Let's Live for Today" was an achingly beautiful, dramatic, and serious single and it shot into the Top Ten upon its release in the summer of 1967. An accompanying album, Let's Live for Today, only reached number 75. The group began spreading its wings in the studio with their next album, Feelings, recorded late in 1967, which emphasized the band's material over Sloan and Barri's. This was intended as their own statement of who they were, but it lacked the commercial appeal of anything on Let's Live for Today, sold poorly, and never yielded any hit singles. Eleven months went by before the group had another chart entry, and during that period, Sloan and Barri's partnership broke up, with Sloan departing for New York and an attempt at a performing career of his own. The band even considered splitting up as all of this was happening. The Grass Roots' return to the charts (with Barri producing), however, was a triumphant one -- in the late fall of 1968, "Midnight Confessions" reached number five on the charts and earned a gold record. "Midnight Confessions" showed the strong influence of Motown, and the R&B flavor of the song stuck with Barri and the band. In April of 1969, Creed Bratton left the band, to be replaced by Denny Provisor on keyboards and Terry Furlong on lead guitar. Now a quintet, the Grass Roots went on cutting records without breaking stride, enjoying a string of Top 40 hits that ran into the early '70s, peaking with "Temptation Eyes" at number 15 in the summer of 1971. Coonce and Provisor left at the end of 1971, to be replaced by Reed Kailing on lead guitar, Virgil Webber on keyboards, and Joel Larson -- of the original Bedouins/Grass Roots outfit -- on drums. They arrived just in time to take advantage of the number 16 success of "Two Divided by Love," which was the last of the Grass Roots' big hits. The Grass Roots soldiered on for a few more years, reaching the Top 40 a couple of times in 1972, but their commercial success slowly slipped away during 1973. They kept working for a few more years, but called it quits in 1975. Rob Grill remained in the music business on the organizing side, and by 1980 was persuaded by his friend John McVie to cut a solo album, Uprooted, which featured contributions by Mick Fleetwood and Lindsay Buckingham. By 1982, amid the burgeoning oldies concert circuit and the respect beginning to be accorded the Grass Roots, Grill formed a new Grass Roots -- sometimes billed as Rob Grill and the Grass Roots -- and began performing as many as 100 shows a year. Their presence on various oldies package tours saw to it that the Grass Roots' name remained visible. Grill continued performing with later incarnations of the band into the 2000s; however, he endured the pain of degenerative bone disease for years and in June 2011 suffered a head injury. The following month Grill died in Tavares, Florida of complications from that injury at the age of 67. ~ Bruce Eder

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Members of The Grass Roots include, or have included, Chad Taylor, P.F. Sloan, Steve Barri, Creed Bratton, Reed Kailing, Darius Jones, Terry Furlong, Sean Conly, Bryan Art, Alex Harding, Bill Fulton, and Rob Grill.