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Originally aiming to be always a recording star, Jeff Barry became perhaps one of the most respected pop songwriters inside the Brill Building complex from the ’60s, no easy accomplishment since Barry’s in-house competition included Neil Gemstone, Carole King, and Neil Sedaka. A attempting New Yorker, Barry’s fortunes transformed significantly …

Dee Dee Clear hit the largest with her 1st record for the Cameo/Parkway label, a blessing that pigeonholed the Philly songstress like a teenybopper forever to become identified with her number 1 smash from 1962, “Mashed Potatoes Period.” Surviving in Philadelphia, the house of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand helped her …

Maker and songwriter Luther Dixon wrote many lasting pop strikes which were successes for a number of past due-’50s and early-’60s organizations like the Shirelles. He previously already penned effective songs for performers, like the Platters, Perry Como, as well as the Crests when he was employed by Florence Greenberg …

Probably one of the most enigmatic and inventive suppliers from the 1960s, George “Darkness” Morton was most famed for his strikes using the Shangri-Las, although he also did well known discs with Janis Ian, Vanilla Fudge, and the brand new York Dolls. Morton was nicknamed “Darkness” partly due to his …

Surely probably one of the most talented one-hit wonders from the rock era, Doris Troy hit the very best Ten with “JUST ONE SINGLE Look” in 1963, but also recorded a great many other good pop-soul sides for Atlantic between 1963 and 1965. Unlike many spirit performers of that time …

Although she’s best-known as the quite, perky teenager who earned the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with her hit “Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son,” French pop singer France Gall has already established a a lot longer and even more varied career than that, having released solid records nearly nonstop because …

The Debonaires were cousins, Joyce Vincent Wilson and Telma Hopkins, and supposedly there have been other people who remain unidentified. These unknowns are perhaps a number of the Adorables who documented for Golden Globe records prior to the Debonaires. A feasible surmise since two Adorables — Pat Lewis and Betty …

The Delicates formed in South Central LA as the Darlenes after Richie Darlene Henderson, aka Darlene Walton, formed the group with Freddie Poole, Billie Rae Calvin, and Brenda Joyce. Discographers generally lumped their recordings using a prior and more lucrative Delicates’ group that documented on Unart, United Performers, Roulette, and …

Claudine Clark was the one-hit wonder in charge of the 1962 smash “Party Lamps,” and she was even more in charge of it than almost every other feminine singers could have been: she also wrote the music and lyrics herself. Created in Macon, GA, Clark was raised in Philadelphia and …

The Dreamers were among the relatively few all-female doo wop groups in the mid-’50s, recording several singles which they backed noted R&B singer Richard Berry. They do only one under their very own name, “REMEMBER”/”Since You’ve Been Eliminated,” which arrived on Turn in 1957. In addition they documented a 1954 …