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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 Girls, a musical based on Calendar Girls; The Girls (Seattle band), Seattle punk band; The Girls (1960s band), an American all-female band from the '60s "The Girls" (Calvin Harris song), 2007 "The Girls" (Blackpink song), 2023
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band; The Gentrys; George Jones; Georgie Fame; Gerry & The Pacemakers; Giles, Giles and Fripp; The Girls; Gladys Knight & the Pips; Glass Harp (band) Glen Campbell; Glenn Yarbrough; The Go-Go's; The Godz; The Goldebriars; Golden Earring; The Golliwogs; GONN; Gordon Lightfoot; Gran Coquivacoa; Grand Funk Railroad ...
The original Vernons Girls disbanded at the start of the 1960s, but a smaller unit carried on, headed by Maureen Kennedy. Most of the other members performed as duos and singing trios. Amongst them were the Redmond Twins, the Breakaways , the Pearls , the DeLaine Sisters, and the longest surviving and best known, the Ladybirds.
Girls Aloud (pictured in 2005) an example of a girl group.. A girl group is a music act featuring two or more female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop and which flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s ...
Bands composed solely of women began to emerge with the advent of rock and roll.Among the earliest all-female rock bands to be signed to a record label were Goldie and the Gingerbreads, to Atlantic Records in 1964, the Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro to Hideout Records in 1964 and Mercury Records in 1968, the Feminine Complex to Athena Records in 1968, and Fanny (who pioneered the all-female ...
The band comprised two key members: Christopher Owens, songwriter and lead singer, and Chet "JR" White, who played bass and produced. Girls' sound was heavily inspired by the music of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, with their sound being described as lo-fi, surf rock, rock and roll, psychedelic rock, pop rock, country rock, and garage rock.
The streetwise image of the Shangri-Las – initially a promotional device for "Leader of the Pack" [12] – contrasted with other "girl groups" of the 1960s, and they were cited as an influence by 1970s punk rock-era acts such as the New York Dolls, Ramones and Blondie; [33] the latter covered "Out in the Streets" twice. [34]