Ladies of Doo Wop

[no_place_like_motown]

Ruth Carroll & The Hamilton Sisters - One Honest Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuc0Z94luMc

Teen Queens - Eddie My Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MvLoS4_bU

Tuneweavers feat Margo Sylvia - Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlTeQg5YyY

Chantels - Maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePTH1PWzAs

Charmettes - Johnny Johnny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFmwtSQUVc

El Venos feat Anne Keith - Lonely Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoF2Nxb_7P4

Kathy Young & The Innocents - A Thousand Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwX4bjFrP_0

Rosie & The Originals - Angel Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xm3qnh1sck

Blossoms - Write Me A Letter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np-m7u_9RUc

Miracles feat Claudette Robinson - After All
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_9eiPgmR-k

Supremes feat Mary Wilson - The Tears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn78EuUP2oA

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Every Beat Of My Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piD1fJPqE_c

Jennell Hawkins & The Dreamers - Do Not Forget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuISc2AZqBc

Little Iva & Her Band - When I Needed You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yyheMyf9rE

Marvelettes - So Long Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy5bfEsQP2c

Orlons feat Marlena Davis - I'll Be True
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MseiRO_YnO0

Ronettes - Silhouettes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESx1Fi9MNtw

Tina Robin - Play It Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofLoWfobaAg

Angels - Cry Baby Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQUi--DcvD8

Playgirls - The Bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYrIytg1xws

Sharmettes - I Want To Be Loved [[Only By You)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnHepU6Th8

Shondells - Wonderful One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnFtzZTFP54

Tonettes - Please Don't Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrVfnDupJmo

Tren Teens - My Baby's Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-5cRZdKSWA

Versalettes - True Love Is A Treasure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkI27Dsw5D8

Colleen Kaye & The Secrets - The One I Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-ZOgFFGbk

Shondells - Ooo Sometimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4-dtimltP0

Sydells - In The Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb9QmtDdrQI

Taffys - Can't We Just Be Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK_zA-zuNfw

[nosey]

Too much sugar for a dime as my mama would say. I'm prepping for a dinner party for tomorrow so I'm sure I'll get around to this by Monday. There's a lot of groups I've never heard of. In the voice of Arte Johnson............veddy interestink.

[blueskies]

Wow......thanks for all the ear candy!

[Soul Sister]

The Teen Queens & Chantels have always been among my favs from the 50's.

S.S.
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[splanky]

Too much sugar for a dime indeed!..Though most of them I know there are several here I'd
never heard of til yesterday which made me really curious about whatever happened to
acts like the Shondells and Playgirls. Also who were the members and what did they look like? Guess I'v got some googling to do. And Tina Robin caught me off guard too; darling had
a throat on her...wonder who were her back up singers, sounded almost like The Cookies but that could just be my biases talking to me...anyway, great stuff....Only girls singing
could take me away from the jazz piano I usually listen to on a Sunday morning...

[no_place_like_motown]

And Tina Robin caught me off guard too; darling had
a throat on her...wonder who were her back up singers, sounded almost like The Cookies but that could just be my biases talking to me

It's quite possible that it may be the Cookies and the reason I say that is not because I have the greatest ear when it comes to who's doing b/g on what, but the connection here is Carole King & Gerry Goffin who wrote the Tina Robin tune and were also working and producing tracks for the Cookies around the same time. Have fun googling, Splanky!

[JIVE FIVE Mary G.]

"It's quite possible that it may be the Cookies and the reason I say that is not because I have the greatest ear when it comes to who's doing b/g on what, but the connection here is Carole King & Gerry Goffin who wrote the Tina Robin tune and were also working and producing some of those early tracks by the Cookies. Have fun googling, Splanky! "

No place like Motown is correct. I would add, it was a frequent practice in the 50's and early 60's for groups to do backing vocals with no credit or credit given to other groups. Harvey Fuqua had the Moonglows back him on a record where credit was given to another group. Eugene Pitt was backed by The Cadillacs, not the Jive Five on "Rain".

Lead vocals were switched sometimes. Eugene Pitt sang lead on a record credited to the Corvairs because the lead singer couldn't get the melody. Pitt later recorded the same song with his own group and put the song out as The Jive Five.

~~Mary~~

[nosey]

I'm about halfway through this list. The Taffy's, Can't We Be Friends, remind me of when Shirley, Barbara and I would sit around singing for our own enjoyment and Shirley had the lead singers voice. Since they were on Cameo Parkway were they from Philly? If so, their music never got played to my strong recollection.

My voice was similar to the Shondells song, Ooo Sometimes. Boy these songs take me back!

[no_place_like_motown]

It has been said that the Taffys hailed from Philly probably because they recorded for Cameo/Parkway. There's not much out there other than a mention that two members from the Taffys also recorded w/ the Swans. Per the liner notes from the "Philly Soul Girls" CD I own, two of the members from the Swans were sisters Jean & Tina Thomas and were also known as the Sweet Three from Camden, NJ.