The Mar-Keys were an American studio session band for Stax Records, in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1960s. Formed in 1958 as the first house band for the label, their backing music formed the foundation for the early 1960s Stax sound. == Career == === Early success with "Last Night" (1961) === The group began as the Royal Spades while its members were in high school. They tried to get a record made for the local Satellite Records (the forerunner of... [more on Wikipedia]