60s Girl Groups

[The39thStep]

 

[The39thStep]

 

[The39thStep]

 

[Elpenor]

One of my all time favourites

 

[Lurdan]

wot, no chiffons

 

[D'wards]

The production on this 60s stuff is great

 

[D'wards]

Supremes loom large over the thread

 

[hitmouse]

OK, if no-one else has posted Be My Baby yet then:


We could have a whole other thread of 60s-girl-group-imitators, like the Pipettes, the School, that one Vivian Girls song.

 

[hitmouse]

And then of course there's this:

 

[mx wcfc]

And then of course there's this:

Christ, imagine them a few years later as a punk band.

 

[mx wcfc]

Chris out of the Redskins once said they wanted to sing like the Supremes and walk like the Clash.

Damned shame they never did a tie up.

 

[killer b]

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Kaka Tim]

I love this track so much ...

 

[Kaka Tim]

only recently discovered this one - what a tune - and what an arrangement

 

[Ground Elder]

only recently discovered this one - what a tune - and what an arrangement

The Flirtations follow me on Instagram

Straight ahead girl group northern

 

[oryx]

only recently discovered this one - what a tune - and what an arrangement

It's an old Northern Soul classic apparently. I discovered it not from when I was into the stuff in my mid-teens (I suspect Northern Soul was played in most northern clubs at the time and I liked the usual suspects...Judy Street, Dobie Grey, R. Dean Taylor etc.) but from a CD compilation I bought about 10 years ago!

 

[Ground Elder]

It's an old Northern Soul classic apparently. I discovered it not from when I was into the stuff in my mid-teens (I suspect Northern Soul was played in most northern clubs at the time and I liked the usual suspects...Judy Street, Dobie Grey, R. Dean Taylor etc.) but from a CD compilation I bought about 10 years ago!

It's a youth club classic - (still) cheap and easily available tune played in the youth clubs that served as Wigan's nurseries

 

[seeformiles]

A violent little ditty that has me wondering where her boyfriend has been - the army? Prison?

 

[seeformiles]

 

[deeyo]

from the bronx

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Bach Beat

 

[seeformiles]

 

[JuanTwoThree]

 

[seeformiles]

None of them are sporting the eponymous hair do - I’m disappointed

 

[Knotted]

Inevitably:

Love this video so much. Such a great song and they look so awkward that they're kinda relatable. No well choreographed dance routines back then.

 

[danny la rouge]

The utterly fantastic tough girls of doom: the Shangri las!

 

[hitmouse]

A violent little ditty that has me wondering where her boyfriend has been - the army? Prison?

I only knew that one from the Raveonettes cover, only just learning now that it's an oldie. I was going to say that Vietnam seemed a fair shout, but apparently it was from 1963 and Gulf of Tonkin was 1964, so probably not. The Shangri-Las definitely did a Vietnam tune, though, with their classic subtle understatedness:

 

[blossie33]

Not a group but as someone has posted a solo singer...

Classic from 65

 

[blossie33]

Looks like there's a guy in the backing singers but I can't hear him