This fan club has no dues, no dress code, and no requirements, except that you love 1960s girl-group music! On this page meet some of the many fans of the girl-group sound. Check back from time to time, as we're constantly adding fans.

Want to be included? Send a bio about the same length as the ones here, along with your photo, to: Include Me!

Al Adams
Hi, I'm Al Adams. I followed the Hit Parade as a child. In my blossoming teens I collected record surveys and made my own surveys from my 45s. For my 16th birthday I got a Wollensak tape recorder and proceeded to record music from the radio for the next 21 years.

In high school we were all cool and I cruised in a red '59 Impala convertible. I love the girl groups and collecting obscure records. I'm married with three grown kids who all love music like Dad. I live in the Central Valley of California and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Email: allycool62@sbcglobal.net

John Clemente
The author of Girl Groups: Fabulous Females that Rocked the World, John has collected records for more than 35 years. He is also a vocalist, having been a member of several vocal groups.

Currently he is a member of a popular bar band in Northern New Jersey, Four Man Trio. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son and in his "day job" is an elementary school Mathematics teacher.

Jim Crescitelli
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I am a writer and bookstore manager living in Winter Park, Florida. I first got into the girl group sound as a kid in the summer of 1970 when I first consciously heard the Ronettes' Walking In the Rain... and then spent weeks looking for it until a record store clerk told him it was an "oldie" from 1964! My Dad eventually bought it for me from the House Of Oldies for seven dollars.

From then on it was a collecting frenzy ... older cousins gave me many of their Philles and Chiffons records. Today, 33 years after beginning my collection, I can STILL play Da Doo Ron Ron and it's like I'm hearing it for the first time!

Adrian Fox,
aka "The Shadow." The Girl Group Genre encompasses many musical areas, and that's why I love it. I live in London, England, ride a black, red and chrome "Mod" style 1965 Lambretta, and belong to a Central London Scooter Club. My interest in the sound started when I was four years old, traveling with my family from Brighton to London on the "Brighton Belle" in October 1964. I heard a transistor radio playing "Baby Love" by the Supremes on the dark and rainy night as we sped to London. I guess from that point it struck a deep chord, and I never looked back. Favorites are Lesley Gore and the Teardrops, but then again there are so many.

My interests (beside scooter-riding and collecting Girl Group music) is short-story writing. Being a writer of horror/dark romance short stories, my work can now be seen via Gothic Revue magazine. My characters and situations are mainly 1960s-based, Lambretta & Vespa scooter riders. Snatches of lyrics and music of the time, usually the girl-group genre, are in various scenes to add to the atmosphere. It's my way of immortalizing those tunes.

John Grecco
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has spent his career in music. He has worked in licensing for BMI, dealing with licenses for TV, radio, concerts (for artists like Bon Jovi, the Eagles and Barbra Streisand) and more. John was heard on WBJB-FM for several years as a floating DJ for both current music and oldies shows.

Serving as director of Red Bird Entertainment, he has managed several notable bands in the New York area. The company's CD releases are The Delcos, a four-song EP featuring the doo-wop group of the early 1960s, and Girl Group Gems, a collection of rare girl-group songs. John's private vinyl collection totals more than 3,000 disks.

Hey, my name's Kobi and I live all the way across the sea, in Australia. I'm only 17 but I was born in the wrong era! Obsessed with everything 50s/60s since I was four, and it's not my parents' influence, because they are stuck in the 1980s! I really love the girl-group sounds, and my two best friends and I have started our own mini 60s girl group along the lines of the Chiffons, Shirelles, Marvelettes, etc. Sometimes I feel so out of place in modern society with all the crappy morals and music, and one day, if I make it as an actress, I want to be on American Dreams so I can feel like I'm living back home...in the 60s!

Tony Leong, New York: Being born the week before Someday We'll Be Together went to number 1 must be some kind of connection with my passion and interest for the 1960's girl groups. When I was eight and saw the Supremes Anthology commercial on TV, my aunt dug out the Where Did Our Love Go LP. From that day, I found all the 60's records that my family had--the Ronettes, Marvelettes, Vandellas, Royalettes, and more. Being a somewhat adventerous pre-teen, I found that some of these group members still did shows in New York City, so, I simply went to get autographs and photos. Luckily, I was the only person that age in the crowd, so the members took a shine to me, invited me into shows and even backstage.

Today, I am a manager in a retail corporation, and I still get a kick out of meeting original members of girl groups. Many of the group members that still remember me and we have a great time--only now I am seen and treated as an adult!

Where we chat, share songs and pix, and find new stuff: The Official Girl Groups Fan Club on Yahoo...it's free!

Chuck Mallory
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founder and editor of this website, is a former book reviewer for the Kansas City Star and has been published in several magazines, including Men's Workout and Exercise & Health

Chuck became a fan a bit late. As a teen, he inherited a box of old 45s--Leader of the Pack, Chapel of Love, and many more. While he loved the Go-Gos and the burgeoning punk movement, he found the early 1960s much more fascinating. He attended the University of Missouri-Columbia. A full-time writer, he lives in Chicago. Email: Girl-Groups.com webrocker!

Stephen Parker, documentary filmmaker from Sullivan, New Hampshire, has spent most of this year working on a feature film with the members of the Pixies Three. Tentatively titled, The Girls From Glenwood Avenue, it showcases the group from their start as grade-school girls, the landing of their Mercury Records recording contract, touring with Dionne Warwick and the Rolling Stones, to their current creative doings.

Stephen says, "My interest in the Girl Group sound originated from the times in the early 1960's when I enjoyed listening to the Top 40 AM radio shows of dee-jays Murray The K (WINS, New York City), Joey Reynolds (WKBW, Buffalo, New York), Bruce Bradley (WBZ, Boston), and Cousin Brucie (WABC, New York City), as well as watching TV shows such as "American Bandstand," "Hullaballoo," and "Shindig." Just think, scientists have said that radio signals go out into space and never die! The sunny soundwaves created by everyone from Arlene Smith and Brenda Lee to the Chiffons and the Murmaids will be detectable forever!

Sergio Rodriguez
I am a Project Manager in New Orleans, Louisiana. I've been married for 31 years and have two children. I've been a fan of the girl group sound since 1961, starting with the Shirelles' Soldier Boy. I first thought they were saying "Sergio Boy," imagining they were singing to me! At age nine, anything is possible. Songs like, Johnny Angel, He's So Fine, It's My Party, Chapel of Love, Walking in the Rain and others further solidified my admiration for this genre, which culminated with The Supremes. Email: Boop4ever@aol.com

Will Stos, 24, first fell in love with the girl group sound when he heard the Chiffons' He's So Fine when he was 11. Since that time, he's been an avid collector of all types of music that fall into the genre. Particular favorites include the Motown Sound, the Brill Building and Northern Soul recordings. Much of his collection is on CD because he wasn't lucky enough to be alive when the original vinyl was issued and on his meager student budget, there's no way he can afford to start hoarding it right now.

As a part of a school music project, he created the Girl Group Chronicles website, and also hosted a radio show with the same name for a year on his home town community radio station. He is currently doing graduate work in history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. You can reach him at wstos@tyenet.com.

Marc Taylor, author of The Original Marvelettes (Aloiv Publishing, 2004), lives in Jamaica, New York. He is a financial analyst in the accounting department of Time Warner. He is also the author of A Touch of Classic Soul: Soul Singers of the Early 1970s and A Touch of Classic Soul II: Soul Singers of the Late 1970s. His lifelong desire to be a writer started in 1990 when he joined the staff of the New York Trend, after graduating from Hampton University in Virginia. He later became assistant editor of the paper and wrote a column on the classic souls artists of the 1960s. Email: marc@touchofclassicsoul.com

Paul Trefzger is the songwriter of "Tears Come Tumbling" and other hits by the Teardrops. His interest in music came from his mother, who played piano and paid for Paul's lessons. Soon he tired of classical music and began studying pop and R&B music. After writing some songs for local Cincinnati bands, he met Bud Reneau at a party. Bud was the lead guitarist of group called the Matadors. After arranging financial, Paul and Bud collaborated on "To Love in Vain" for the Twi-Lighters and "Where is the Boy Tonight?" by the Charmaines.

Wanting more independence, Paul and Bud started the Saxony Records label. After releasing a few singles, Paul entered the Air National Guard in Texas. A year and half later, in 1964, Bud heard the Teardrops at a local event. Paul and Bud began working with them, and produced and wrote several songs. They were very popular in the Northeast. Later, Paul was a social worker and in 1972, moved to San Francisco and became a probation officer. In the 1990s, collectors began asking him about releasing the Teardrops songs on CD. "The Best of the Teardrops" was released. In January 2005, the "Saxony Vaults" CD will be available, and will include other bands with which Paul worked.

Hello, I am Vera. I have been a girl group fan ever since I heard the Chantels' records at my mother's house parties. I am 50 yrs old. My favorite girl group is the Marvelettes. I will always love them, but I also love the Emotions, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, First Choice, and the lesser-known groups like Honey and the Bees, the Fuzz, and lots of others. So I am down also with the girl- group sound!

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