Girl Groups

Songs and styles:
Girl Groups of the 1960s

Updated Dec. 26, 2011

Yowza! Girl-Group Videos
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See Your Faves Again!
Cher, Supremes, Ronettes & more!

Rave! The Reviews
Girl groups on CD!
Sha-lang books!
GGs on TV!

Groovy! The Groups
750+ Groups!
Where to Find
Girl-Group CDs!

Swell! The Songs
Cry-Cra-Cryin' Songs!
Weirdo Songs!
Remakes!

Fab! Fans & Fun
No. 1 Hits!
Big Hair!
Bad Girls!

A Blast! Beach Party!
Girl-Groups 1960s movies!
Annette!
Where to Buy Them!

Keen! History & Bios
Today's history lesson!
The Wall of Sound!
Sweet Songbirds!

Man! More Pix!
Early Cher, Lesley Gore
and many many
many more!

Mod! Girl Groupville
Fan pix of the
girl groups!
Q & A Page, Pen-Pal Us!

Luv! The Links
The Stars' Sites!
Candy and Records!

Wow! Where to Buy It!
Vats of Vinyl!
Memorabilia!

Feature Articles...

Brief Blazing Stars!
Ad-Libs!
Ruby & the Romantics!

Karen and Olivia in '66
Karen's solo sound!
Olivia Newton-John!

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Bev, Efficient 1960s
Secretary!

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For the returning fan...

The Latest News...

It Was All "Love" This Christmas!

Christmas couldn't have been better this year for Darlene Love fans! First, on Dec. 23 she performed her traditional Baby Please Come Home on CBS-TV's Late Night With David Letterman. This was the 25th anniversary of her Christmas song salute, and CBS spared no expense on choir and musicians! Can you identify the five former girl-group members singing back up? Baby, Please Come Home 2011 with the unsinkable Darlene Love!

Then, CBS Sunday morning did (video:) a full profile on Darlene Love and her life in music, a dramatic and inspiring story perfect for Christmas morning. Print-only version here. She even sang a duet of White Christmas with host Charles Osgood! It was a tremendous conclusion to a year in which Darlene Love was inducted in to the Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame.

Want Darlene Love to perform in your city? Now you can request it and even start the ball rolling on your Facebook and Twitter accounts! Just go here and Demand It!

Thank you, Darlene Love, for adding to this joyous season with your beautiful voice!

A Free Listen to Top Girl-Group Hits!

Here's a site that lists the "Top 100" girl-group hits, ranked by "level of impact" by the website. Purists please note that it includes 1950s girl-group songs:
100 Greatest Girl Group Hits

'Supreme' Release

Music collectors are abuzz at the new 3-disc set of containing all the hits, B-sides and many more songs, from Diana Ross and the Supremes: 50th Anniversary: Singles Collection 1961-1969.

Here's a review of the CD, which though it errantly calls the Supremes the "initial leaders" of Motown (it was actually the Marvelettes), has some interesting information. It also reviews a companion Motown CD on the Temptations.

Today's Recommended Music

Girl-Groups Books!

Dionne Warwickhas a juicy autobiography, Dionne Warwick: My Life, as I See It that tells her fascinating story. From her home in East Orange, New Jersey, she rose to immense success, with over 50 charting hits and in the 1960s and 1970s was widely considered "the choice voice" for any Burt Bacharach songs. She tells all about her string of hits starting in 1962: Don’t Make Me Over, followed by Anyone Who Had a Heart, Walk On By, I Say a Little Prayer, Alfie and many more.

Dionne also wrote the foreword to another book that has Carpenters fans all abuzz. More revealing than Ray Coleman's 1995 book Carpenters, this scorching book, Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter really peels back the layers of her sad life surrounded by a highly-controlling family who apparently milked her voice for every dime. Dionne's foreword is appropriate, since the Carpenters covered several of her songs. Before you email and say, "Why is Karen mentioned here? This is SIXTIES girl groups!" remember that the very FIRST released song by the group was a solo girl-group style hit by Karen alone in 1966.

Feature Article

Clairette Clementino!

Known as the "little girl with the big voice," this California native had nine singles over four years. Here's all about her fascinating recording career that started as age 12 and revealed a strong, clear voice perfectly befitting of the girl-group sound! This special feature was written by Ken Friedman. Read all about it: The Little Girl with the Big Voice.

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For the first time visitor...

Back to the old days

Remember the early 1960s...when Coke was just a soft drink...when the only nudity you saw was a Barbie doll, between outfits...when the biggest worry was who Johnny would invite to the prom?

Girl-groups.com takes you back to those days, to the fab era of early 1960s girl groups. Most people can remember the Supremes,the Ronettes, and the Shangri-las. But there were actually hundreds of artists, both groups and solo singers, who were part of the girl-group era from 1960-1966.

Who were these singers? Who made the sound? Why was it so famous, and suddenly gone? Here you'll find an interesting history of the girl groups.

Do you remember a kooky song title? Check out our songs list.

Wanna know cool trivia or when your favorite song hit number one? You'll find it: Fun Page.

The girl-group sound is still popular, especially with the advent of CDs. You can find famous artists and one-hit wonders on girl-group CDs and in books about the era.

What's happening these days with some of these stars? The gals still look great!

Remember those beach-party movies? Not only did Annette Funicello appear, but so did the Supremes, Toys, & Lesley Gore!

Review Pages!

Reviews of CDs, DVDs and books from the girl-groups era have been added and all reviews appear in alphabetical order by artist. Groups and singers include all your favorites and hundreds more you didn't know about! Take a moment to look because that obscure song you can't remember or group you don't expect to find on CD will be there! Check it out:

As requested, we have now categorized the Reviews -- groups, soloists, compilations and more.

You Want It, You Got It!

By popular request, we have added a Q & A page. Read new info and see new pix here!
Q and A about the girl groups. You can email your questions, too!

In this installment, we answer your questions about what defines "the girl-group era," who is the most enduring group and songwriter, with details about characters like Phil Spector and groups like Ruby & the Romantics ("Our Day Will Come"), the Ad-Libs ("Boy From New York City"), the Orlons ("Don't Hang Up"), and the Essex ("Easier Said Than Done").

The 'Bev' Page

Bev, the Efficient 1960s Secretary is our hilarious, exclusive comic. You can also get your own 'Bev' coffee mug--for yourself, or as a gift: Exclusive to Girl-Groups.com: the Bev mug. Order one, order more! It will help support this site.

The Official Girl Groups Fan Club...

Free & easy to join; song files; pix; chat

A Novel with a Girl-Group Theme: Doo-Lang Love!

The novel with a girl-groups theme, Doo-Lang Love, has received rave reviews in the press and on Amazon.com.

The novel is set in the present day and is about a new girl group modeled after the 1960s style of group--only this group is made up of three drag queens!

Now Girl-Groups.com presents a full review of this funny, engaging novel that's sure to please girl-group fans everywhere: Doo-Lang Love

Now you can re-live the Sixties!

This hilarious list will give you all the components you need to go back to the Sixties. Especially nice is the first item on the list, a Frankie and Annette CD!
Sixties, come back to me!

Girl Group Gems: Red Bird Entertainment