The Girl Group Sound: The Darlings Of The 1960's
various artists
label::Sha-Boom
format:: CD
The Girl Group Sound: The Darlings Of The 1960's series of
compilations on Sha-Boom is half way between the One Kiss Can Lead to
Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found boxset
on Rhino and
The Girls of Hideaway Heaven on Rare
Rockin' Records because it combines some rare and hard to find girl
group records with some easier to find sides.
This series is more true
to the "girl group sound" then the Rhino box (which took jaunts into
the girl soul and girls in the garage sound along with the classic
girl group sound), but has poorer bootleg like sound quality (the
Rhino box had impeccable sound quality for recordings so old), and
doesn't dig as deep and as obscure as the Rare Rockin' series.
The Girl Group Sound series seems like it was a blueprint for the
Rhino box (they were released in 2003, while the Rhino box came out in
late 2005), where some titles that could not be licensed were replaced
with a wider spectrum of genres and solo artists. 
There's enough
difference between each of these though that true girl group
collectors won't be disappointed when picking up any and all of these
collections. There's bound to be some titles you haven't yet heard.
The hard part will be finding these now, since they're not available
through the major retailers. Your best bet is to find it through the
specialty shops or auction sites. But there's enough hard to find
titles here that would make searching these out worth it, if you don't
mind the bootleg quality and lack of liner note information.
---Patrick
Vol 1
- Bad Boy - Donays
- From Jimmy With Tears - Honeys
- Watch What You Do With My Baby - Julie Grant
- It Hurts To Be Sixteen - Andrea Carroll
- It's My Time - Drew-Vels
- Take a Word - Marcy Jo
- At This Stage of the Game - Linda Lawrence & Clusters
- He's the Only Boy For Me - Diane Coleman
- Stay At Home Sue - Linda Laurie & Del-Satins
- Just To Be With You - Paramounts
- Johnny Angel - Laurie Loman
- Let Go My Heart - Demetriss Tapp
- The Cure - Smitty Williams
- Don't Mention My Name - Shepherd Sisters
- Pop, Pop, Pop Pie - Sherrys
- Lullabye of Love - Poppies
- Gonna Get Some Records - Sandy Selsie
- 442 Glenwood Avenue - Pixies Three
- Wow Wow Wee - Angels
- The House of the Boy I Love - Lori Martin
- Look Who's Talkin' - Ginny Arnell
- Why Don't That Boy Leave Me Alone - Dian Christian & Crysalets
Vol 2
- Randy - Earl Jean
- One Wonderful Night - The Honey Bees
- The're Jealous of Me - Connie Stevens
- Don't let me stand in your way - Skeeter Davis
- What does a girl do - Marcie Blane
- Who was that girl - Sue Winford
- When I'm not teenage anymore - Karen Lake
- I love how you love me - The Paris Sisters
- Baby I miss you - The Popsicles
- Where did Jimmy go - Nancy Baron
- Wanna make him mine - The Emeralds
- Romeo - Janie Grant
- A steady boyfriend - April Young
- Teenage Cleopatra - Tracey Dey
- Staw away from Bobby - The Sherry Sisters
- Soldier baby of mine - Brenda Hall
- He's mine - The Swans
- When the boy's are happy - The 4 Pennies
- Love Kitten - Noreen Corcoran
- A little love (goes a long way) - Alder Ray
- I din't know him - Sandy & The Cupids
- Paradise is where he is - The Mamsellers
Vol 3
- The Dum Dum Ditty - The Goodies
- Unbelievable guy - Diane Renay
- You Baby - Linda Scott
- Under the Stars - Carole Scott
- Some fo your lovin - The Honey Bees
- They're jealous of me - Earl Jean
- Why'd you wanna make me cry - Connie Stevens
- Will Power - The Cookies
- Someday - Roberta Day
- The conqueror - Tootie & The Bouquets
- He really loves me - Debbie Rollins
- Dreamin' of you - Noreen Corcoran
- Gonna make him my baby - April Young
- Let's tell them tonight - Nancy Allen
- Happy Birthday - Bernadette Carroll
- Mary Ann - Honey Love & The Love Notes
- He's my dream - Marie Antoninette
- Out of the picture - Marcia Strassman
- Let me get close to you - Beverley Warren
- You better stay away from my baby - The Tulips
- My baby looks, but he don't touch - Carol Connors
- I have a boyfriend - The Chiffons
