Girl Groups - The Story Of A Sound (1/5)

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.

Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production values and backing by top studio musicians. In later eras the girl group template would be applied to disco, contemporary R&B, and country-based formats as well as pop.


The Chantels released the 1958 song "Maybe". The Shirelles, who had had some minor R&B hits, hooked up with Brill Building songwriters, including Gerry Goffin and Carole King, who wrote "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" for them. The song became a number one pop hit in early 1961.

Other songwriters and producers quickly recognized the potential of this new approach, and recruited existing acts (or, in some cases, created them anew) to record their songs in a girl-group style. Phil Spector recruited The Crystals, The Blossoms, and The Ronettes, while Goffin and King handled much of the output of The Cookies. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller would likewise foster The Dixie Cups, The Shangri-Las, and The Exciters. Other important girl group songwriters included Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. The Motown label also masterminded several major girl groups, beginning with The Marvelettes and later with Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, and The Velvelettes.

(extract from Wikipedia 2011)

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[Freyja1133]

@pistolpimp36 This is one of my favorite documentaries. 1) Girl Groups: story of a sound 2) Complete Beatles & 30 british Invasion : the first wave

[Freyja1133]

Can the girl groups sound be brought in to another genre...such as power metal?

I want my power metal band Andraste to have the innocence of the girl groups in our sound

[Freyja1133]

@sierria64 and why is that? all girls arepretty when they're younger

[Freyja1133]

@Ivanbelastegui yhou could try Amazon.com,Ivan... It's on VHS

[Justbeingteyana]

As if the girl group they showed first is gorgeous.

[Ivanbelastegui]

I saw this documentary long time ago and been looking for it like crazy. Many, many thanks for uploading!

[katrinaguilbeaux]

thank you thank you thank you for this. girl groups forever!

[sierria64]

DAM THE CHICKS DIXIE CUPS .. UGLY

[pistolpimp36]

This is definitely my favorite documentary. I've watched it several time . Thanks for the upload :) I can't wait to share it with some of my friends.

[rubeecube80]

This is my favorite documentary! I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid. Thanks for posting! :)