Jewish artists have played a prominent role throughout the history of pop music and rock music. Already in the early 1960s, vocal groups such as The Tokens. and Jay and the Americans scored massive hits in the United States, the former also launching the 50+ year long career of singer and composer Neil Sedaka. Around the same time, the American folk music revival was taking place, bringing into the spotlight artists such as Peter, Paul And Mary (Peter being of Jewish persuasion) and The Weavers (fronted by Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman), and setting the stage for the emergence of Bob Dylan, probably the biggest Jewish rock star in history, and Simon & Garfunkel