But what about?: 40 that missed the cut for Jacksonville's best music act

When we put together a tournament to select your favorite music act from Jacksonville, we limited the field to just 16 entries to keep things simple. But, wow, did we hear from folks whose favorite act was left out.

So here are some of the big names we considered that didn’t make the cut.

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95 South

“Whoot, There It Is” was a monster hit for the hip-hop trio that formed in Jacksonville.

Hoyt Axton 

The singer/songwriter was raised in Jacksonville and is primarily known for the hits others had with his songs — “The Pusher” by Steppenwolf, “Joy to the World” and “Never Been to Spain” by Three Dog Night, “The No No Song” by Ringo Starr.

Mae Boren Axton

Texas native (and Hoyt Axton’s mom) was a Jacksonville schoolteacher who wrote Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.”

Von Barlow

Jazz drummer who worked Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Bobby "Blue" Bland and others. He was the drummer in the early years of the Great American Piano Competition and is a member of the Jacksonville Jazz Festival Hall of Fame.

MaVynee Betsch

Betsch was a classically trained opera singer who performed throughout Europe in the 1950s and '60s before retiring to Amelia Island, where she became known as the "Beach Lady" for her efforts to preserve American Beach, a haven for Blacks in the Jim Crow era.

Black Kids 

Five-piece Jacksonville band broke onto the national scene during the Myspace era with “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You.”

Blackfoot 

Highly successful Southern rock band out of Jacksonville led by guitarist Rickey Medlocke, who now plays with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Gary “U.S.” Bonds

Bonds was born in Jacksonville but moved away as a child, long before “Quarter to Three” and “New Orleans” became big hits in the early ‘60s.

Burn Season

Hard rock band formed in Jacksonville Beach in 2001 but broke up while recording second album. They reconnected and started working on new material during the pandemic.

Cold

Alt-rockers formed in Jacksonville in mid-’90s and released two gold albums. Best known for their hit “Stupid Girl.” Singer Scooter Ward is the only original member remaining in the band. Cold has a show booked for April 6 at Jack Rabbits in Jacksonville.

Cowboy

Country-rockers formed in Jacksonville in the late ‘60s and were regulars on the Southern rock touring circuit. Constant personnel changes made it tough for the band to build a following, though.

Billy Daniels

Daniels, who was born in Jacksonville, was a big-band singer and Broadway performer who had a huge hit with “That Old Black Magic” in 1950. He had his own TV show in New York in 1952 and is regarded as one of the first Black entertainers to cross over into the mainstream.

Rick Dees

Syndicated DJ, born in Jacksonville in 1950, had a big novelty hit in 1976 with “Disco Duck.”

Frederick Delius

British-born classical music composer lived on an orange plantation south of Jacksonville in the 1880s.

Evergreen Terrace

Formed in Jacksonville in 1999, the band released six albums of original material, including the brilliantly titled “Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in This Business.” The band is still together and touring.

Flipturn 

Indie rock band formed in Fernandina Beach and released its first full-length album, “Shadowglow,” in 2022.

Fortune Child

Four-piece rock band formed in Jacksonville in 2021 and got producer Kevin Elson (Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd) to produce their first album, “Close to the Sun.”

Hank Garland

Session guitarist known as “Sugarfoot,” who recorded with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, George Jones, the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison, lived in Orange Park at the end of his life.

Connie Haines

Big-band singer who sang with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands and frequently dueted with Frank Sinatra grew up in Jacksonville and returned to the city in the ‘60s.

David Hasselhoff

The “Baywatch” star, who released three chart-topping albums in Europe in the ‘80s and ‘90s, lived in Jacksonville as a kid and attended Christ the King Elementary School. He's on a Party Your Hasselhoff Tour of Europe this spring.

James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson

Brothers from Jacksonville are best known for writing "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," widely regarded today as the Black national anthem. A park that honors the song and the brothers is under construction in Jacksonville's LaVilla neighborhood.

Sam Jones

Jazz bass player known for his work with Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Oscar Peterson and as a leader of his own band.

Paten Locke

Late hip hop artist from Jacksonville had such an impact that they held a festival in his honor earlier this year in downtown Jacksonville.

Tim McGraw

Actor and country megastar is the son of baseball pitcher Tug McGraw, who met his mother while pitching for the Jacksonville Suns. Tim returned to the city as a young man and attended FSCJ.

Scott McKenzie

The guy who sang the hippie anthem “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” and co-wrote the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo” was born in Jacksonville.

Jackie Moore

Jacksonville native was an R&B singer who had hits in the 1970s with “Precious, Precious,” "Sometimes It's Got to Rain" and  “This Time Baby.”

Ulysses Owens Jr.

Jazz drummer, who lives in Jacksonville and runs the Don’t Miss a Beat Foundation to help kids, leads his own band and is an in-demand session musician, working with playing with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis and Kurt Elling.

Gram Parsons

Country-rock titan and former Byrd and Flying Burrito Brother spent some time at Jacksonville’s Bolles School.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Nine gold albums, 8 platinum albums, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – but they’re from Gainesville, not Jacksonville.

Marcus Roberts

Big name pianist in the jazz world is a Jacksonville native and a professor at Florida State University.

Quad City DJs

Jacksonville trio had big hits with “C’Mon and Ride It (The Train)” and the title track from “Space Jam.”

Rossington Collins Band

Formed in the wake of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 plane crash, the band included Skynyrd members Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson. Their first album, 1980’s “Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere,” went gold.

Dorothy Shay

Born in Jacksonville in 1921, Shay gained fame as the “Park Avenue Hillbillie” on Spike Jones’ CBS Radio show and had a big hit with “Feudin’ and Fightin’” in 1947. She was also an actress and played the first owner of the Dewdrop Inn on “The Waltons.”

Rex Smith

Jacksonville native became a teen idol had a Top 10 hit in 1979 with “You Take My Breath Away.” He also had a successful Broadway and television career.

Johnny Tillotson

Born in Jacksonville and raised in Springfield and Palatka, Tillotson had Top 10 hits in the early ‘60s with “Poetry in Motion,” “Without You,” “It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'” and “Talk Back Trembling Lips.”

Derek Trucks Band

Guitarist Trucks was a guitar prodigy, playing clubs when he was barely big enough to reach the strings. The band he formed in 1997 released 10 albums over the next 13 years. Several band members followed Trucks when he formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Van Zant

Different versions of Van Zant kicked around for several years before brothers Johnny (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and Donnie (.38 Special) tried their hand at country music in 2005, hitting Top 10 with “Help Somebody.”

Slim Whitman

The country music yodeler released 50 albums between 1954 and 2010 and had 11 Top 10 country hits, including the immortal “Indian Love Call.” He was a Tampa native but was living in Middleburg when he died in 2013.

Whole Wheat Bread

Pioneering Black punk trio from Jacksonville has a new album in the works.

Widespread Panic

Big name on the jam-band circuit features Jacksonville native Duane Trucks on drums. The band returns to the St. Augustine Amphitheatre for three shows March 24-26.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Notable music acts from Jacksonville that didn't make our bracket