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Songwriter Ellie Greenwich helped to form and popularize the lady group audio of the first ’60s that included such works because the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, as well as the Crystals, becoming, along the way, perhaps one of the most respected pop songwriters from the era. Like the majority of of …

Vocalist Evie Sands endured one of the most remarkable hard good fortune stories in pop music lore — time upon time, her information seemed poised for graph success, and then fall victim to sector whim. The Brooklyn-born Sands’ husky, soulful tone of voice first attracted the eye of Jerry Lieber …

A ’60s girl group, the Dixie Mugs contains one cousin (Joan Marie Johnson) and two sisters (Barbara Ann Hawkins and Rosa Lee Hawkins). All three teenagers had been from New Orleans, as was manufacturer and vocalist Joe Jones, who uncovered the talented threesome and had taken them to NY. The …

The Donays made only one, which record — though a good girl group/pop disk — may likely be totally forgotten today otherwise for just one stroke of chance. The record was “Devil in His Center,” as well as the stroke of possibility was the Beatles in some way selecting it …

The Memphis-based Dixie Belles enjoyed a short second in the spotlight in 1963, if they scored a high Ten pop hit making use of their first single, “(Down At) Papa Joe’s.” That they had a high 20 follow-up strike aswell, with “Southtown U.S.A.” Mary Hunt, Mildred Pratcher, and Shirley Thomas …

Among aficionados of the lady group sound, there can not be five acts even more beloved compared to the Crystals. Their best-known music, such as “He’s a Rebel,” “Uptown,” “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “After that He Kissed Me,” and “THERE IS NO Various other Like My Baby,” are among the …

A British singer/songwriter from the ’60s whose tone of voice was much better suited for achieving the back again row of Broadway auditoriums than spirit or rock and roll, Jackie Trent (given birth to Yvonne Burgess in 1940; she transformed her name to Jackie Trent at age 14) nonetheless managed …

Who was the next biggest-selling music superstar to emerge from Liverpool following the Beatles? It wasn’t Gerry & the Pacemakers or Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, nor was it the Searchers. It had been Cilla Dark, a onetime coat-check female in the Cavern Membership who was simply still understanding …

Cher has already established three professions that place her indelibly in the general public awareness, and two have been around in association with her then-husband, composer/manufacturer/vocalist Salvatore “Sonny” Bono (b. Feb 16, 1935, d. January 8, 1998). She charted main hit information in the 1960s and 1970s, employed in idioms …

Famed because of their classic 1964 one “Chance,” R&B girl group the Jewels was shaped in Washington, D.C. in 1961 by vocalists Sandra Bears, Sophistication Ruffin, Margie Clark and Carrie Mingo. Originally dubbed the Impalas, the fledgling quartet was shortly befriended by Bo Diddley, who documented their Checker label debut …