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This Brooklyn doo wop group was originally referred to as the Linc-Tones when it formed in 1955 at Lincoln SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Hank Medress, Neil Sedaka, Eddie Rabkin, and Cynthia Zolitin didn’t possess much impact within their early days documenting for Melba. They afterwards disbanded, but Medress re-formed the group …

The Raindrops are, using one level, bit more when compared to a footnote in the very much broader music careers of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. Alternatively, as a studio room performing group, they put together one of the most impressive body of well-known vocal music of the first ’60s …

Small Eva Narcissus Boyd was a babysitter for Carole Ruler and Gerry Goffin when the songwriting group was inspired to create “The Loco-Motion,” a music predicated on a dance that Eva would do throughout the house. Eva also surely got to sing on the demonstration, which impressed Don Kirshner plenty …

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 . …

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 …

Probably the most commercially successful solo singer to become identified with the lady group sound, Lesley Gore hit the main spot with her initial release, “It’s My Party,” in 1963. Made by Quincy Jones, who fattened the teenager’s audio with double-tracked vocals and elaborate back-up vocals and horns, she reeled …

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 …

The Angels’ 1963 number 1 hit, “My Boyfriend’s Back again,” is among the half-dozen roughly archetypal girl group classics. Hands clap beats, sassy vocals, somewhat campy lyrics, and an set up paced by wailing horns and streetcorner harmonies; it had been a surefire strike and one that this group could …