(From "Dedicated To The One I Love", "I Met Him On A Sunday" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" to "Soldier Boy" and "Baby, It's You") plus lesser-known gems such as the sublime "A Thing Of The Past" (my favourite Shirelles song...and lead singer Shirley Owens's as well) ...
and changed their name to the Shirelles by combining frequent lead singer Owens first name with doo woppers the Chantels. The Shirelles recording of I Met Him on a Sunday was licensed by Decca and climbed into the national Top 50 in 1958. Two more singles flopped, however, and Decca passe...
The Shirelles 321 votes The Shirelles were an American girl group notable for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop and soul music and gaining popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens (later Shirley Alston Reeves), Doris Coley (later Doris Kenner-Jackson), Addie "...
The Shirelles were an American girl group notable for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop and soul music and gaining popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens (later Shirley Alston Reeves), Doris Coley (later Doris Kenner-Jackson), Addie "Micki" Harris (later Addi...
The early 60s was also the era of the girl groups with the Shirelles (named for lead singer Shirley Owens) leading the way. The Shirelles had their first big hit courtesy of a beautiful Carole King/Gerry Goffin composition “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (#1 Feb. ’61) followed shortly the...
The Shirelles: “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (1960) Carole King was a better songwriter than singer/songwriter, though Tapestry is probably about due for a too-ironic revival. On this 1960 release, the Shirelles take the Brill Building doo-wop and enchantment-under-the-sea strings of ...
There also was a school of female doo-wop, best exemplified by the Chantels, the Shirelles, and Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. The popularity of doo-wop music among young singers in urban American communities of the 1950s such as New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, Maryland, was ...
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- Artist: The Shirelles The first #1 single to come from an all-Black woman group, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is another song that might seem controversy-proof to today's audiences. However, its sexual innuendos were enough to get it banned from radio stations back in 1960. Numer...
THE Shirelles, an all-girl vocal quartet from Passaic, New Jersey, consisted of lead singer Shirley Owens, Beverly Lee, Doris Kenner and Addie "Micki" Harris. music: bevan's heaven More results ► Encyclopedia browser ? ▲ pasos2 paspalum Pasqual Pasquale Stanislao Mancini pasqueflower Pasquier...