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Girl Groups No: 7 the Dixie Cups - Iko Iko / Chapel of Love

In the dead winter in we're heading for the sultry heat of summer in the deep south to New Orleans and the Dixie Cups. They are...

What a lot of people don't realise was that the success of Motown was initially strongly based on girl groups, first with the very girl...

The wonderfully named Shadow Morton was the greatest Phil Spector imitator and his great oeuvre was the singles of the Shangri-Las. The...

I'm guessing you've heard ""He's so fine" and "One Fine Day" so in line with the idea of playing some gems which you are less likely to...

Aaaah we have finally arrived. 1963, the first release by the Ronettes, mind-blowing, the wall of sound is born. Apparently when Phil...

So, once the Shirelles had forged the idealogical template, Phil Spector came along and forged the sound. Already a successful songwriter...

Which to begin with, demands a definition. People often use the term girl groups to describe groups like Bananarama and Spice Girls and...

Having had a room full of modern day troubador men in that bar in Mission beach, it's only right that we should think about the women...

Sorry about the delay. I was wanting to complete the songs by the fraternity of poets in Guy Clark's Mission Beach bar and had come to...

So also in Guy Clark's Valhalla bar at Mission Beach, as we've said, was "poor Port Worth boy" Townes van Zandt, a great and prolific...