Writing in this space recently, I said that the Marvelettes’ “Please Mr. Postman” might’ve been the first #1 song to acknowledge, however obliquely, the early days of the Vietnam War. That became a ...
Belonging to the Shirelles was more than a matter of singing together, says Beverly Lee. She ought to know: She's been with the group since she was a junior in high school 50 years ago and is the only ...
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. In a lot of the ...
"Soldier Boy" by The Shirelles was a typical song from the innocent side of the early rock 'n' roll era that pre-dated The Beatles arrival in the United States. It was a song in which the singer vowed ...
If the Shirelles can’t quite do for “Baby It’s You!” what Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons did for “Jersey Boys,” please don’t blame the music. The sound of this path-breaking girl group, which ...
The producers of a new Broadway musical about the 1960s girl group The Shirelles have been hit with a lawsuit charging them of pilfering the names and likenesses of the original members. By Billboard ...
A surviving member of the Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Chuck Jackson are among those suing Warner Bros. Theater Ventures and Broadway Baby over the new Main Stem tuner “Baby It’s You!” Former ...
Soul legend James Brown once famously wailed, “This is a man’s world/But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.” For many female musical icons whose harmonies have been ...
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Writing in this ...
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