The Breakaways

Britain’s premiere program vocalists through the entire 1960s, the Breakaways also recorded a small number of little-known but superb gal group singles. The trio of Vicki Haseman, Margot Quantrell and Betty Prescott originally teamed in the vocal group the Vernons Young ladies; another onetime Vernon Gal, Jean Ryder, changed Prescott in the Breakways within a calendar year from the trio’s 1962 development. They continued to sing on actually hundreds of periods to get serves including Dusty Springfield, Cilla Dark and Lulu, additionally touring Britain behind American superstars like Small Richard and Sam Cooke and frequently appearing over the strike television series Prepared, Steady, Move. In 1964, the Breakaways produced their headlining debut for Pye Information using the Tony Hatch-penned “That Boy of Mine”; however the single was a strike, follow-ups including “He Doesn’t Like Me” as well as the wonderful “That’s How It Runs” didn’t garner much interest. In 1965 the trio assumed vocal responsibilities over the Burt Bacharach smash “Trains and Watercraft and Planes,” however the label was acknowledged to merely Bacharach and Chorus, without reference to the Breakaways around the corner; 1968’s psychedelic-flavored “Sacred Like” was their last official one, although their program work continued for a number of more years.