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They released two singles with Capitol, including a version of the biker song "Chico's Girl", written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. [2] The group toured the Far East, which included performing for the troops in Vietnam. [1] The four girls first recorded as 'The Four Queens' on Teron Records : "A Cinder In My Eye" / "The Boy Next Door" (1964). [3]
The line-up consisted of Margot Quantrell, Eleanor Russell, Vicki Haseman and Betty Prescott. They spent a year on tour with Ford in 1960, playing one-nighters. Back in London they left Ford to sing backup for Joe Brown who Vicki Haseman had been engaged to for a year. [2] Having broken away from Ford, they were then known as The Breakaways. [3]
The 1960s began with soul music topping the charts, including pure soul divas and singers specializing in the new, rhythm and blues-gospel music fusion with a secular approach. Later specialties in soul cropped up, including girl groups, blue-eyed soul, brown-eyed soul, Memphis soul, Philly soul and, most popular, Motown.
Girls! is a 1962 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaii-based fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. " Return to Sender ", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the film.
Like 1964's Vol. 1, these are snippets of past hits of the era as each song is a medley combining two songs into one. [ 3 ] Although Volume 1 made it to the Cashbox albums chart in 1964, where it peaked at No. 95, [ 4 ] Volume 2 failed to reach the charts.
The Sixties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on May 29, 2014. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman 's studio Playtone , the 10-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s.
The collection also contains several Christie hits with backing vocals by the Tammys. "Egyptian Shumba" was included in the Grammy nominated box set One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost and Found. In 2006, Pitchfork Media included "Egyptian Shumba" in its list of top 200 songs of the 1960s at number 177. [3]
Their best-known single, "(Down at) Papa Joe's", hit #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 late in 1963, [1] and the follow-up, "Southtown U.S.A.", hit #15 early in 1964. [2] Both these songs were produced by Bill Justis [3] and released on Sound Stage 7 Records, a division of Monument Records. The name of the group is one word - The Dixiebelles - as ...