Bring on the girls!

[Flower]

Shirley Bassey ...


Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger [James Bond Theme Song] [HD]

[Hepcat]

I didn't truly appreciate Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger until ten or so years after its release. It was a bit too jazzy for me as a kid. Now I think it's just fabulous!

From Hullabaloo!

The Toys - Lovers Concerto - HQ

[Flower]

The Flirtations (formerly The Gypsies)


The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache (early video)

[Hepcat]

Great song! It looks like another Scopitone video like the one by the Exciters that I posted on the second page of this thread.





Now here's Little Eva with her signature hit:

Little Eva - Loco-motion(1962)

[Flower]

The Ace of Cups ~

The Ace of Cups- Circles

Ace of Cups - Simplicity

[marsattacks666]

The Ace of Cups ~

The Ace of Cups- Circles

Ace of Cups - Simplicity

Flower, interesting choice. Plus really cool band. Extremely obscure.

[marsattacks666]

The Patti Smith Group was one of my favourite New Wave bands!

The term "girl group" though originated in reference to the unique sound of the groups of singing girls in the early to mid-sixties. Do you not like any of those?

I do very much.

[marsattacks666]

The 5. 6. 7. 8's - Motor Cycle Go - Go - Go ^O^

[Hepcat]

Flower, interesting choice. Plus really cool band.

Yes! Boss garage rock!

The B-Girls were a punk band that burst onto the Toronto scene in 1977 after a fortuitous meeting in the washroom of the Plaza II Hotel (or so they claimed):

B-Girls High School Dance

I took them in at Club David's off Bay Street where they opened for the Boyfriends from Detroit. The B-Girls that evening played two sets of six songs, the very same ones each time. Within a half year they graduated to CBGB's in New York where bass player Cynthia Ross, the blonde in the blue top, hooked up with Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys and married him.

[Flower]

From Wikipedia ~

The Ace of Cups was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1967. It has been described as one of the first all-female rock bands.

The members of the Ace of Cups were Mary Gannon (bass), Marla Hunt (organ, piano), Denise Kaufman (guitar, harmonica), Mary Ellen Simpson (lead guitar), and Diane Vitalich (drums). Lead vocals were sung by all members of the band except Vitalich, and all five sang backup. The songwriting, too, was divided among the band members.

The Ace of Cups made their debut in the early spring of 1967. In late June, Jimi Hendrix invited the band to open for him at a free concert in Golden Gate Park. In London that December, Hendrix told Melody Maker about some of the "groovy sounds" he had heard that year, "like this girl group, Ace of Cups, who write their own songs and the lead guitarist is hell, really great".

In San Francisco, the Ace of Cups—whose new manager, Ron Polte, also managed Quicksilver Messenger Service—were playing regularly, headlining at smaller clubs such as The Matrix and performing as the opening act at larger venues such as the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore. In mid-1968, the band appeared on a local television program, West Pole, along with San Francisco legends Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. In 1969, they opened for The Band's first concert as The Band along with The Sons of Champlin.

Several record companies were interested in signing the Ace of Cups, but Hollingworth and Polte felt the band was worth more than the record companies were offering. Also, some of the band members were concerned that a record contract might require the band to tour, and they were worried that family pressures would interfere. Consequently, the Ace of Cups never made any professional recordings of their own, although they did contribute vocals to Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers and albums by Mike Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites.

[Street Worm]

Claudia Lennear was an Ikette before touring with Joe Cocker during the Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour (1970)
I fell in love with her during Leon Russell's televised Homewood sessions (1971). In The Concert for Bangladesh
(1971) she's listed as being part of the Backing Vocalists/Soul Choir... (to name a few)

This is from her one & only album, Phew (1973)

CLAUDIA LENNEAR Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky.wmv

[Allhallowsday]

I hope no one posted DUSTY SPRINGFIELD "Son of a Preacher Man"
Dusty Springfield - Son of a preacher man

[Street Worm]

After touring with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review,
Scarlet Rivera released a few albums - She's a pretty
good fiddle player...

Scarlet Rivera - Wicked Witch of the East

Scarlet Rivera - Frenzy

[Flower]

Marion Raven ....

Marion Raven - Here I Am

Thank You For Loving Me - Marion Raven


Backing up Meat Loaf ....

Meat Loaf & Marion Raven Singing IACBTMN

[Hepcat]

I saw Marion Raven opening for Meatloaf at the Sony Center in downtown Toronto about six years ago!

Here Dee Dee Sharp invites listeners to do some dancing with her:

dee dee sharp - mashed potato time