#soon! Part Un - The 60s-00s Girl Band Debut Breakthrough Rate

londonrain

londonrain

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ohnostalgia said:
Chapel of Love clearly should’ve been the first 60s songs gone, but I’m not hoping for much from this rate anyways.
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Chapel of Love is awful and I hope it goes soon, but also I was really not here for the terrible Crystals song.

Mind you, I would have had to find a way to give negative points if, instead of "There's No Other (Like My Baby)" we had been rating the lead single from their second album, "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)". Mercifully the lyrics were so controversial that radio ignored it, the label pulled it and it didn't chart.



Here's a summary from this helpful website:
It was written by the prolific song-writing duo Gerry Goffin and Carole King, who were then husband and wife. The inspiration for the lyrics came from their babysitter, Eva Boyd (who later carved out her own pop career performing under the name Little Eva) who arrived at the couple’s home sporting bruises that had been administered by her boyfriend. When quizzed about it, she said that he had only done it because he loved her. For the writers, this was not a song that glorified domestic violence but one that illustrated the terrible deceptive nature of abuse in which the perpetrator justifies his actions as an unavoidable extension of his passion, for which the victim should somehow be grateful. This may have been their take on it, but it was hard to see most of middle America interpreting it in such a way, and the danger was that thousands of teenage girls, the unmistakable market for these records, would accept the implicit association of violence and romance. Unsurprisingly DJs refused to play it while music publications refused to advertise it and in June 1962, Spector’s label Philles were forced to pull the plug on it. The Crystals themselves disowned the recording, lead singer Barbara Alston stating it was “absolutely, positively, the one record that none of us liked”.
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The "Eva Boyd" in that story is this Little Eva, who made "The Loco-Motion" a hit long before Kylie's take on it:

 
londonrain

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berserkboi said:
Excellent stuff @londonrain and will be added to your section soon!
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I’m getting my own section?!

Uno said:
In any other rate, I'd be pissed that The Pointer Sisters, Cover Girls, and Bananarama left so soon, but their debut singles were rather crap. Definitely not reflective of their otherwise superb discography.
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Out of curiosity, which is your favourite Cover Girls song? We Can't Go Wrong was their first top 20 hit but it was also their highest-charting hit in the US (and one of only two top 20 hits for them).
 
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berserkboi

berserkboi

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londonrain said:
I’m getting my own section?!
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You already have your own section, look on page 1 :) @Mina can get the same since she is my other back up should she like to post anything specific to an act or song. This Beyoncé enjoys sharing the spotlight with Kelly and Michelle.

Next elimination soon - is @Filippa still the main villain or is another emerging?
 
Uno

Uno

londonrain said:
Out of curiosity, which is your favourite Cover Girls song? We Can't Go Wrong was their first top 20 hit but it was also their highest-charting hit in the US (and one of only two top 20 hits for them).
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My mother raised me on "Show Me" and "Because of You" - she blared those songs all the time, so those will always be among my favorites because of memories, as well as them being genuinely great songs.

Their cover of Wishing on a Star is incredible as well, though I prefer the sped up single version rather than the slow album version.
 
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