The Murmaids

The Murmaids can safely be classed as one-hit wonders — but that certain hit, “Popsicles and Icicles,” not merely characterizes a whole innocent era of pop music and the first phase of ’60s girl-group music, but was an integral early career jump for a number of from the participants. The Murmaids had been Carol Fischer, Terry Fischer, and Sally Gordon of LA. They’d developed together and experienced begun performing, so when the performing began to present promise within their middle- to past due teenagers, the Fischer sisters’ mom brought them into Chattahoochie Information, a little Los Angeles-based label, for an audition. The label’s documenting supervisor was Kim Fowley, who supplied them with a tune known as “Popsicles and Icicles,” constructed by David Gates, an Oklahoman with musical dreams who’d been knocking around LA going back few years, composing tracks and playing the unusual session. The mixture of dreamy melody and ethereal female group voices was an instant graph success, “Popsicles and Icicles” scaling in to the TOP in past due 1963. It had been, alas, to end up being the initial and last period the fact that Murmaids had been to occupy the eye of graph compilers. And, ironically, by enough time the tune was popular, Carol and Terry Fischer got started college, which was of very much greater concern for them — the trio do cut some more songs in order to follow-up on “Popsicles and Icicles'” achievement, but just “Heartbreak Forward” in early 1964 got any airplay. With out a full-time professional dedication to touring or personal appearance, the Murmaids demonstrated a one-off achievement, “Popsicles and Icicles” disappearing, however, not without departing a whole lot of fond recollections for radio listeners. Fowley held working to obtain another chart strike, without achievement, and afterwards Murmaids singles had been very likely the task of other performers. The final Murmaids single made an appearance in 1968, where time Fowley experienced begun dealing with the Clinger Sisters, a woman group (and previous regulars on tv variety displays, including Danny Kaye’s system) who experienced turned toward a far more rocking sound on Columbia Information. David Gates, whose track had provided the Murmaids their one state to popularity, was acquiring his big actions to stardom around that point, developing the group Breads in 1969, which would provide him massive achievement both like a songwriter (“ALLOW IT TO BE ALONG WITH YOU,” etc.) so when a pop/rock and roll star through the early ’70s. The Murmaids themselves stay a fixture of early- to middle-’60s lady group selections. Their information — plus they left behind the same as about an recording of surprisingly great material — remember the Paris Sisters, the Fleetwoods, the TEDDIES, and all of those other innocent part of lady group music.