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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 were originally members of the Liverpool vocal group The Vernons Girls. Prescott was replaced by Jean Ryder in 1963. [1] They started out as the Fordettes, backing Emile Ford. 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.
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.
In 1914 John Benwell sold the theatre to Fuller-Haywards Picture Company. The building was remodelled after a fire in 1924. In 1929, Fuller-Haywards converted the building to allow for the new talking pictures. [3] The Victoria was taken over by Kerridge Odeon in 1945. Kerridge ran the theatre until 1988, when dwindling patronage saw the ...
Pop Go The Sixties! (also known as Pop Go The 60s!) [1] was a one-off, 75-minute TV special originally broadcast in colour on 31 December 1969, [2] to celebrate the major pop hits of the 1960s. [3] (Not to be confused with the 2007 BBC series of the same name and on the same subject).
On 11 August 1955, she married Hugo Wessel, the son of English music hall singer Denise Orme and Danish diplomat Theodore W. "Tito" Wessel. On 21 September 1960, she married Frederik, Baron van Pallandt. They formed a singing duo, Nina & Frederik, and achieved popularity, including top-40 hits in the United Kingdom, with their calypso-style ...
In Southern California, a distinct growl of car engines are heard on the boulevards, led not by stereotypically macho characters often portrayed in street-racing films like Fast and Furious, but ...
The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists. They were formed at the Vernons football pools company [ 1 ] in the 1950s in Liverpool , settling down to a sixteen strong choir [ 1 ] and recording an album of standards .