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The Shaggs were formed in 1965 by the teenage sisters Dorothy ("Dot"), Betty and Helen Wiggin in the small town of Fremont, New Hampshire. [3] Dot wrote the songs, played lead guitar and sang; Betty, the youngest, played rhythm guitar and sang; and Helen, the eldest, played drums.
The Shaggs, sisters Helen, Betty and Dot Wiggin of Fremont, New Hampshire, made a studio recording of what would become the cult classic record album, Philosophy of the World and earned a place in pop music history as "the world's worst rock band".
The Shaggs were formed in 1965 by the teenage sisters Dorothy ("Dot"), Betty and Helen Wiggin in the small town of Fremont, New Hampshire. [3] They formed at the behest of their father and manager, Austin Wiggin Jr. [3] When Austin was young, his mother had read his palm and made three predictions: he would marry a strawberry-blonde woman, he would have two sons after she had died, and his ...
Philosophy of the World, The Shaggs (1969) The Shaggs were formed in 1965 by the teenage sisters Dorothy, Betty and Helen Wiggin. Though they had no interest in becoming musicians, they were forced to write, rehearse and record an album by their father, who believed that his mother had predicted their rise to fame. [1]
Shaggs' Own Thing is a 1982 compilation album by the American band the Shaggs, containing unreleased recordings made between 1969 and 1975. In 1988, Shaggs' Own Thing and the Shaggs' first album, Philosophy of the World , were remastered and rereleased by Rounder Records as the compilation The Shaggs .
The Shaggs, an American all-female rock and outsider music band composed of sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin, Betty Wiggin, Helen and, later, Rachel Wiggin The Shangri-Las , an American pop girl group of the 1960s that consisted of two sets of sisters, Mary Ann and Marge Ganser, and Betty and Mary Weiss
Dorothy Wiggins (née Palmer; formerly Gittinger; born August 14, 1925) is an American social media influencer, socialite, former stylist and aspiring centenarian based in New York City.
The group organized in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1946.The original members of the group were Janet Ertel Bleyer (née Buschmann; September 21, 1913 – November 22, 1988), Alice Mae Buschmann Spielvogel (July 31, 1925 – January 6, 1981), Dorothy "Dottie" (Hummitzsch) Schwartz (February 18, 1927 – April 4, 2016) and Jinny Osborn/Lockard (April 25, 1927 – May 19, 2003).