Grass Roots lead singer Rob Grill performs during the Superstars of the 60’s and 70’s show put on by Joe Nardone of The Gallery of Sound at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre Friday night. Aimee ...

Molly Middleton, Grass Roots drummer Joe Dougherty, Rob Grill and Joe Middleton back stage at the Northeast Fair in 2003. Grass Roots singer Rob Grill, who died in Orlando, Florida, on Monday from ...

Rob Grill -- the voice, bassist and band leader of the 1960s pop/rock group The Grass Roots -- was not a Midwesterner, but he was a frequent visitor.

Rob Grill, one of the most listened-to voices on the radio from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s, confessed he had no music background. "I came from a Hollywood family of actors," he said during a ...