The Shangri-Las were an American girl group of the 1960s, consisting of Mary Weiss, her sister Elizabeth "Betty" Weiss and twin sisters Marguerite "Marge"...
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Shangri-Las-65! is the second album by the Shangri-Las. Released in September 1965, it serves as the follow-up album to Leader of the Pack, which was...
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Mary Weiss (section The Shangri-Las)
designer, best known as the lead singer of the Shangri-Las in the 1960s. Their single "Leader of the Pack" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in...
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Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays...
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group the Shangri-Las. The single is one of the group's best known songs as well as a popular cultural example of a "teenage tragedy song". The song was...
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Leader of the Pack is the 1965 debut album by girl group the Shangri-Las. The album was produced to capitalize on the group's breakthrough hits "Remember...
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in the Sand)", also known as "Remember", is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton. It originally was recorded by the girl group the Shangri-Las, who...
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received album, Weiss was backed by the Reigning Sound. Mary Weiss was the lead singer of the 1960s girl group the Shangri-Las, that released a number of hit...
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recorded a cover of the Shangri-Las' song "Past, Present and Future". It peaked at #56 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1983. The same year their version...
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in the Sand)", "Leader of the Pack", and other hits for girl group the Shangri-Las. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, United States, and raised in Hicksville...
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night at the Copa with the girlfriends; Sunday dinner at Paulie's. "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" by The Shangri-Las – Henry with Janice at the Suite before...
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of the Kuok group Shangri-La Toronto, a hotel/condominium under construction in Toronto The Shangri-Las, an American girl group of the 1960s Shangri-La...
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artists The Shangri-Las, Billie Holiday, Minnie Riperton, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Thelonious Monk, The Specials, Little Anthony and the Imperials...
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Shout (Isley Brothers song) (redirect from Shout! (The Isley Brothers song))
(attributed to Lulu and the Luvvers). She re-recorded the song in 1986, and it reached number 8. The Shangri-Las included a version of the song in their debut...
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2017. The album features cover versions of some of the group's favorite songs and artists including The Everly Brothers, The Shangri-Las, The Cramps...
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Armstrong, Mary Wells, The Dixie Cups, Peter and Gordon, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Shangri-Las, and Lorne Greene. Dean...
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included the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, New York Dolls, Suicide, and The Shangri-Las. William said in 1985, "We all love The Shangri-Las, and one...
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I Can Never Go Home Anymore (category The Shangri-Las songs)
Morton and performed by the Shangri-Las. It reached #6 on the U.S. pop chart in 1965. The song was added to their 1965 album Shangri-Las-65! (reissued as I...
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It would later become the title of the band's third studio album. The title matches that of the 1965 song by The Shangri-Las. Dead or Alive Pete Burns...
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(Walking in the Sand) by The Shangri-Las". www.songfacts.com. Retrieved January 21, 2022. Breihan, Tom (July 5, 2018). "The Number Ones: The Shangri-Las' "Leader...
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Miki Berenyi (category Alumni of the University of North London)
guests. The two drummers also joined MB3 on stage in New York for a live performance of Lush’s ‘Baby Talk’. In 2020, Berenyi cited The Shangri-Las as an...
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was included on the 2009 compilation album, The Shangri-Las & The '60s Girl Group Garage Sound. List of all-women bands Biography, The Girls website. Archived...
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Billy Joel (category Entertainers from the Bronx)
"Leader of the Pack", which became a major hit for the Shangri-Las. Joel states that in 1964 he played on a recording of the Shangri-Las' "Remember (Walking...
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Boy". The Guardian. Retrieved January 28, 2024. Madarang, Charisma (January 20, 2024). "Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of Sixties Girl Group the Shangri-Las, Dead...
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David Johansen (redirect from The David Johansen Group)
World : The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972/3 featured the Dolls performing songs by Otis Redding, Gary U.S. Bonds, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las and Muddy...
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Joanne Whalley (category English expatriate actresses in the United States)
of The Genius at the Royal Court Theatre. At this time, she was also the lead singer of the pop group Cindy & The Saffrons; they recorded the Shangri-Las'...
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on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1965. In 1965, the group released "Leader of the Laundromat," a parody of the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack...
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Stonewall (1995 film) (category Films set in the 1960s)
Baby Gee" The Shangri-Las – "Sophisticated Boom" The Shirelles – "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" The Shangri-Las – "Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)" The Ad Libs – "Boy...
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been covered by among others, the Shangri-Las, the Supremes, and Ike & Tina Turner. Spector's choice was to not release the Spector/ Jeff Barry/ Ellie Greenwich...
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World War on the Adour Estuary in south-western France Myrmidons of Melodrama, a compilation album by American pop girl group The Shangri-Las Myrmidone,...
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