“Production teams tinkered with a formula for mass-market success: Fewer moving parts onstage, lots of well-crafted hooks and cute, carbonated lyrics. The result: the girl-group sound. Not that it was bad; it was delicious. Girl groups offered the record bin equivalent of those heavily frosted Kellogg’s variety packs devoured by sixties pre-teens…Their ranks were drawn almost exclusively from high school girls in urban areas whose other options held little promise” (Gerri Hirshey, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock, 2001).
The Crystals “Da Doo Ron Ron”
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