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Re: Girl Groups
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2016, 01:42:27 AM »
And I see The Shangri-Las' Give Him A Great Big Kiss is on that CD.  That's a group that formed not too far from where I lived at that time in Queens, NY.  The lead singer's older sister Betty Weiss recorded with the group but had stage-fright and seldom performed live.  But here she is, second from the left, looking real fine...


http://youtu.be/gOdP_VvPKHU




And here she is at her Sweet Sixteen Party...





I think I'm in love,  L  U  V!





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« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2016, 01:56:20 AM »
Because she rarely performed live with the group, she was always a bit out of sync with the others...


http://youtu.be/01YePzk29Mc


http://youtu.be/2zTLPBd_9lE


But that made me love her even more!
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« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2016, 02:14:23 AM »
And from New Jersey, you had The Angels...


http://youtu.be/5NuofNHKbVc




You did The Wampo to that song.  It was a popular dance in The Bronx in 1963...


http://youtu.be/G5hN9cXNm4s
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Re: Girl Groups
« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2016, 02:40:28 AM »
The Jaynetts were way ahead of their time in 1963...


http://youtu.be/6e-YmMJobyo





The Great Society covered the song three years later...


http://youtu.be/2NSy4i-5Qxw


Far out, man!
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Re: Girl Groups
« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2016, 03:48:19 AM »
Saturday November 5, 1955


http://youtu.be/WY2w2-CAKgM





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Re: Girl Groups
« Reply #25 on: June 07, 2016, 03:56:38 AM »
Wow! My iPad does not want me to reply to this topic!
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« Reply #26 on: June 07, 2016, 04:06:26 AM »
iPad?  What's that?  A pad of paper shaped like the letter i?

Anyway, did you see The Lennon Sisters on The Lawrence Welk Show last night?


http://youtu.be/n8bmXG4MtPI
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« Reply #27 on: June 07, 2016, 04:19:18 AM »
Quote from: Hello Goodbye on June 07, 2016, 04:00:00 AM
iPad?  What's that?  A pad of paper shaped like the letter i?

 ha2ha

It might just as well be!

Quote from: Hello Goodbye on June 07, 2016, 04:06:26 AM


Anyway, did you see The Lennon Sisters on The Lawrence Welk Show last night?


No, but I have a feeling I'm going to see them in about 13 years on their variety show.  ;)
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« Reply #28 on: June 07, 2016, 04:32:39 AM »
Quote from: In My Life on June 07, 2016, 04:19:18 AM
No, but I have a feeling I'm going to see them in about 13 years on their variety show.  ;)


I can just see that!


http://youtu.be/A6XoP09ta-U


You know, that song would make a great storyline for a movie!
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« Reply #29 on: June 07, 2016, 04:48:18 AM »
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You know, that song would make a great storyline for a movie!

Why don't you write one? Believe it or not, I think it should have a character sort of like that guy in the new Vladimir Nabokov novel.
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« Reply #30 on: June 07, 2016, 05:02:11 AM »
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Yes.  I think I'll name him James Leamington.  Maybe James Mason could play the role.  He was pretty good in last year's A Star Is Born.
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« Reply #31 on: June 07, 2016, 05:13:20 AM »
^^^
There you go!
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« Reply #32 on: June 07, 2016, 05:14:26 AM »
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Re: Girl Groups
« Reply #33 on: June 07, 2016, 05:15:24 AM »
The McGuire Sisters


http://youtu.be/rhE4Znfjs1s
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Re: Girl Groups
« Reply #34 on: June 07, 2016, 05:48:17 AM »
A rare photo of Betty Weiss with The Shangri-Las on stage...




1965


Yes, I'm in love...L U V
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« Reply #35 on: June 07, 2016, 07:48:36 AM »
I love the Jaynette's.  Have a few on the ipod.

I think Mary Weiss is the sweetheart in the Shangri-La's, but Betty was nice too.

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« Reply #36 on: June 07, 2016, 10:09:48 AM »
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http://youtu.be/01YePzk29Mc



Dammit Barry.  I'm enamored by her (Mary) in the video.  I'd feel like a pervert, but she's older than me.   ha2ha
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« Reply #37 on: June 07, 2016, 11:39:21 PM »
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Yes, I'm in love...L U V

Oh dear. Off you go again. I just hope L I N D A doesn't find out about this.
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« Reply #38 on: June 07, 2016, 11:49:28 PM »
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Dammit Barry.  I'm enamored by her (Mary) in the video.  I'd feel like a pervert, but she's older than me.   ha2ha


I know just how you feel, Todd.  I've got the same thing for Betty.

Mary is seventeen in that video.  Betty is nineteen.  These girls worked hard to promote themselves while they were in junior and senior high schools.  I remember The Shangri-Las appearing on the New York United Cerebral Palsy Telethon.  They made appearances at New York City high school dances including the high school I attended which was only a few miles away from their school.  They were the white girl group of the 1960s, a tremendous achievement!  But they were talented and earned it.

Here they are when they started out in junior high school...


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« Reply #39 on: June 07, 2016, 11:53:40 PM »
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Oh dear. Off you go again. I just hope L I N D A doesn't find out about this.

This was before Linda, Kelley.  I'm just reliving it now...before they take me away to the Ali MacGraw Ward.    ;D
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