60s Music and Girl Groups.

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The alpha-numeric telephone number alone dates this one.  Among my favorites when it was first released.

 

 
I'll Make an Exception for the Orlons

. . . because there's a guy, but the girls make the group.  I bought a copy of "Don't Hang Up" when it was first released and played it so much it developed a skip.  I'm sure the highly taxed needle on my sister's Decca record player had something to do with it.  I have both of these in my current jukebox rotation.

 



 

The Orlons are better known for this one -- with a mention of the Mashed Potato.

 

 
Now just put together the Cars and Appliances during this era.

Ughhhhhh... I'm Ferklempt. What Memories.

Thanks everyone for contributing.

This is a fun thread and a nice break from daily life as we know it today.

And to think it all started with a Hairdryer I posted in New Jersey.

Thanks Joe (Twintubdexter) it's all your fault. You had to post the picture of the Ronetts. LOL ; )
 
John Waters

used that Mashed Potato song in Hairspray, and one by the Ikette's, Ike and Tuna Turners back up singers, the Gong song.
"I'm blue-ue-ue-ue dooby dooby dooby doo gong gong gong gong gong gong gong gong gong gong gong gong yea-ah."
 
Wow, what great memories all these songs and singers have brought back for me! This is the music of my pre teen and teenage years. I used to have the 45's of many of the song's posted here. Every week when I got my allowance I used to ride to the variety store (this was before my family moved to the country)and buy one or two new hit 45's, they were 50 cents each. I had an RCA record player that played 45's only in my bedroom. In the living room we had a big Cherry RCA Hi-Fi, remember those? It had the best sound, but I wasn't allowed to use it if the adults were using the living room. The music of this time always had a happy feeling to it for me, even if they were sometimes sad songs.

BTW, the posting of the hairdrier earlier also brought back a lot of memories. I went to Cosmetology school right out of high school in 1969. At the beauty college I attended in Santa Rosa, Calif. we still had some of these older hairdriers ( by that time the standard salon dryer had a clear, plexi-glass hood). These old driers were really powerful and you had to put a drier net over your patron's hair to keep the rollers and clips from being dislodged and sucked up into the fan. I worked at this profession steadily from 1969 thru 1976, when I went to work for the Telephone Co. as an operator. I still did my favorite customers hair after work. In 1980 I went back to Cosmetology full time until I went to work for the Social Service Dept.in 85'. I kept my license renewed until 2 years ago. I did a lot of those roller sets, razor cuts, permanents, and hair coloring during those 15-16 years. I used to work my ass off on Thur., Fri. and Sat., our busiest days of the week then, doing a lot of "rat and roll'.
Eddie
 
Leslie Gore

And here's one from a current Toyota ad campaign.  I don't know why anybody trying to sell something would use the buzz term "you don't own me," but they did.

 

 
The only problem, even then, was that management usually (if not always) called all the shots. Phil Spector - who served as The Ronettes' manager - was the most notorious; his heavy-handed approach did not sit well with many of the people he worked with (including The Beatles' Paul McCartney, who was upset over Spector's treatment of his "The Long and Winding Road"), and his poor reputation with women reached a peak after he shot dead actress Lana Clarkson February 3, 2003.

These girl groups almost always just sang -- didn't play their own instruments, until The Go-Go's changed that in 1981.

~Ben
 
Thanks to everyone that contributed.

Now we'll have to do a Doo Wop Thread, Guy Band Thread, and a Chronological Thread starting from the mid fifties through the late 60s just before the "Music Died" of this era.

Doris Troy "Just One Look"...

Just Fabulous. Hey Vacbear. All your contributions to this thread are Great.

Thanks Very Much. Just so nice to listen to In my opinion Real Music.

Arrangements, Harmonies, and Lyrics you can understand.

Refreshing.
 
Music

seems to bring us all together!
In the first Velvettes video, third frame, shows the old 20 Grand theatre in Detroit. I remember it, on Grand River avenue near Telegraph. Before it closed in the late 1980's, it hosted Cabaret's where people paid for a ticket to go dance with an open bar to contemporary music spun by DJ's. not live groups.
A few of the last groups to perform there were Climax, the Mary Jane Girls, and Emtume (Sugar Free)song.
Just up the road a bit was Topeka's supper club for the middle aged set.
 
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