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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 …

Making use of their no-nonsense, street-smart approach, the Exciters ushered within the heyday of the lady group sound via the 1962 classic “SIMPLY TELL HIM.” Queens, NY, classmates Brenda Reid, Carol Johnson, Lillian Walker, and Sylvia Wilbur shaped the group in 1961 if they had been all 17 yrs . …

The Butterflies (spelled “Butterflys” in a few resources) were an organization signed to (or, more properly, released by) the Red Parrot label, and were featured around the label’s ninth launch having a version from the Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich track “Goodnight Baby.” Aside from Greenwich performing backup, there is no indicator …

Matching polka-dot dresses, choreography, and retro sensibilities type the inspiration from the Pipettes, a modern-day gal group from Brighton, Britain. The group premiered in 2003 by Monster Bobby (true name: Robert William Barry), an area promoter who searched for to regenerate the traditional Phil Spector-inspired sound of the first ’60s. …

Combined with the Shirelles as well as the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las were among the best girl groups; if judged exclusively based on attitude, these were the greatest of these all. They mixed an innocent adolescent elegance with more when compared to a hint of darkness, performing about lifeless bikers, teenage …

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 Jelly Coffee beans were a combined voice quintet (later on a quartet) made up of one man (Charles Thomas) and four women (Alma Brewer, Diane Taylor, Elyse Herbert, Maxine Herbert) who met up while attending senior high school in Shirt City, NJ. Which was where their supervisor found out …

The Cookies essentially had two histories as distinctly different organizations (with one member in keeping) that existed for just two years at the same time, six years and a whole decade aside in designs and sounds. The initial Cookies had been Margie Hendrix, Ethel “Earl-Jean” McCrea, and Pat Lyles, who …

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Denim jeans had been an early-’60s studio room group put together by maker Phil Spector that presented performers Bobby Sheen (b. 1943, St. Louis, MO), Darlene Like, and Fanita Wayne (the second option two were previous members from the Blossoms). The group experienced a …

The aunt of vocalist Johnetta Alston, Shirley Alston (Owens) was also lead vocalist for the Shirelles, who have been deemed the best possible women’s group ever before the emergence from the Supremes. Alston, Beverley Lee, Addie Harris, and Dorris Kenner all fulfilled during senior high school. They created the Shirelles …