Does anyone know how many 'girl groups' recorded for Motown?
I'm aware of The Supremes, Martha and Vandellas, The Marvelettes,
and The Velvelettes. I know the Blackberries recorded an LP that
was never released. Where there more groups?
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Does anyone know how many 'girl groups' recorded for Motown?
I'm aware of The Supremes, Martha and Vandellas, The Marvelettes,
and The Velvelettes. I know the Blackberries recorded an LP that
was never released. Where there more groups?
High Inergy.
Mary Jane Girls.
Lewis Sisters?
Sisters Love
Wright Specials
The Good Girls
The Lollipops
Scherrie and Susaye
Three Ounces of Love
Saundra Mallett and the Vandellas
Christine Schumacher and the Supremes
LaBrenda Bren and the BelJeans
The Andantes?
Joanne & The Triangles
The Vells
The Emotions and the Pointer Sisters
Wow...thanks everyone. I had forgotten about the Pointers and Emotions as
well as 3 Ounces of Love. I'd never heard of some of these other groups.
The LaSalles were actually a band- 3 guys and a female lead singer, Kathy Lynn. They also went by the name Kathy Lynn & The Playboys.Quote:
Originally Posted by calvin
Their story is in the description of this video:
https://youtu.be/xrpqJbAFmg4
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Harem
Willie Max
All had Motown albums
The LaSalles had a 45 release on VIP 25036 in 1962 "La La La La La" & "This Is True"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnlQ3cEn0PI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNs_Zn8IED0
Other Female groups:
The Darnells [[aka Marvelettes & Andantes) "Too Hurt To Cry" & "Too Much In Love To Say Goodbye"
The Burnadettes were a female Gospel Group led by musical director Joseph Norris issued on Divinity 99007 1963
The Gospel Stars [[1961 Tamla LP)
Frances Nero & The Andantes & originals on "Keep On Loving Me"?
The Coyote Sisters
...some of these are mixed groups...
The Guinn Family
Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Boones / The Pat Boone Family
The Nu Page
Celebration
The Undisputed Truth
The Allens
The Monitors
DeBarge / The Debarges
The Supremes & The Four Tops
The Supremes & The Temptations
The Devastating Affair
Grape :)
Attachment 19195Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Jarvis
VIP didn't even start until December 1963. That record is from 1966. And weren't The LaSalles a mixed group? I heard male voices as well as female in "La, La, La ,La, La"..
Robb, I don't know if I typed this in invisible text or what but here is the reply I gave to Calvin about the LaSalles; They were a band, not a vocal group. One female lead singer. [[And yes, the record was way after 1962.)Quote:
Originally Posted by robb_k
Originally Posted by calvin View Post
Sisters Love
Wright Specials
The LaSalles
[[My reply)
The LaSalles were actually a band- 3 guys and a female lead singer, Kathy Lynn. They also went by the name Kathy Lynn & The Playboys.
Their story is in the description of this video:
https://youtu.be/xrpqJbAFmg4
So given the fact that the LaSalles were a self-contained band, the extra voices heard on La La La were probably just session singers. I'm not even certain they recorded at Motown.
The Lollipops
Pointer Sisters were never on Motown!
...afraid so Lyrie...!Quote:
Originally Posted by lyrie
https://www.discogs.com/The-Pointer-.../master/292055
Grape :)
The Pointer Sisters and Bonnie Pointer on Motown
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/cookep...fAWbnK-dB9cfH]
Bonnie fared far better at Motown than her sisters did. Her cover of Heaven Must Have
Sent You hit big. I still remember all the hoopla that broke out over Free Me From My
Freedom. though. That "Tie Me To a Tree" lyric caused some folks to lose it...
Quote:
Originally Posted by WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
And, it sounded to me like there were male voices among the background singers [[a mixed group?).
Yeah my bad on the LaSalles. I don't know what I was thinking, maybe that band name just sounds like a girl group name to me so I remembered it that way, but I should have checked it. I don't hear male voices in the backing vocals but I could be wrong about that too. I never heard of them until Motown Complete Singles, even after that I didn't pay them much attention as their two songs in that set didn't really interest me.
As for someone mentioning 1962 as the date for "La La La La La", that's probably confusion with the original 1962 "Little" Stevie Wonder version of that song.
They were for a brief time in the early 1990s, then they moved to SBK around 1992.Quote:
Originally Posted by lyrie
Attachment 19200
PAL issued in the UK
Seeing this, I can't help but think of all the singers who thought they were gonna be stars. And it didn't happen. Or did it? Did PAL have chart success?Quote:
Originally Posted by brother_love
[[And lest anyone thinks that was a mean dig at the group, it wasn't because I too had those dreams! At least PAL got a single, an album and TV appearances!)6
If I'd have had work released on Motown that would have been stardom enough for me.
Robb
Sorry been away, the LaSalles "La La La La La", is from 1962, it was however issued in 1966 on VIP.
They were not a girl group anyway.
Attachment 19208
I believe that © 1962 Jobete refers to the year of the publishing copyright, not the recording date - which makes sense because Stevie Wonder released the first version of that song in 1962. According to Motown Complete Singles the LaSalles' recording date is unknown but the group [under another name] recorded for Swan in 1964/65 and then came to Motown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Jarvis
True. VERY true!Quote:
Originally Posted by mysterysinger
Then there's that other well known Motown girl group, Mary Wells....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cookep...57719556185146
Aha. I see what they did there. Maybe another collection could have included The Velvelettes amongst Motown's top Female Solo artists!Quote:
Originally Posted by mysterysinger
...their lead singer was fantastic......!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mysterysinger
Grape :)
HahHa! Good one, Waiting!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
[[grin!)��!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Philles/Motown Gary