Singers And Groups

[smurf]

all answers are either singers or groups
43 --- second day of week (ay crossed out), in SOS
51 mountain in east california, spacecraft centre
54 west indies volcanic island,taxi,& l in old beer
59 walled city in wales (tr crossed out) s&y, these sell door to door
76 --- mischievous children often called this
78 --- before & put price in to do job
thanks for any help

[Dinkypuzzled]

43. Os(mond)s.

[quinie]

76 Imps?

[quinie]

76 Ignore Imps. Meant to put Rascals!

[bibblebub]

51: Whitney Houston

[Fibonacci]

54 Montserrat Caballé

[bibblebub]

59: Chesney Hawkes

[scorpiojo]

78 .....tender?

[bibblebub]

78: Pretenders

[TheWinner]

78. Status Quo ?

[scorpiojo]

Of course!

[TheWinner]

pretenders, of course.

[factor-fiction]

Did you get an answer for 45 please, smurf?

[factor-fiction]

The clues seem a little loose for some of these.
For example:
78 The clue would have been better if it had said PUTS price in.
49 Suggests hawkers rather than hawks and doesn't give an N in Chesney.
It's still good fun though

[Diddydodd]

76. The Monkees

[factor-fiction]

86 Could be Monkeess or Rascals.
I don't understand the purpose of the dashes in some questions

[scorpiojo]

Do they indicate a missing word ie the?

[factor-fiction]

That would make sense, scorpiojo. I still can't fully parse some of the answers though- eg 43, 59 and 78

[grasscarp]

76 Young rascals

[888]

76 young rascals (sang "groovin'")

[factor-fiction]

Yes, The Young Rascals is better, I think. They became The Rascals later