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Pop / Rock
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surf • 60s girls • female vocalists • surf rock • pop • 60s • rock 'n' roll • soul • girl group • 60s pop • summer beer • 60s girl groups • girlie music • girl groups • girls • girl group sound
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1960s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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Biography
Probably the definitive female surf group, the Honeys were formed in California, USA as the Rovell Sisters in 1961. Marilyn, Diane and Barbara Rovell initially appeared at amateur talent shows, but embarked on a more substantial career when a cousin, Sandra Glantz aka Ginger Blake, replaced Barbara. The newcomer, a budding songwriter, brought the trio to producer Gary Usher, who in turn introduced the group to Beach Boys svengali, Brian Wilson. Now dubbed the Honeys, a term for ‘female surfer’, the trio embarked on a series of exemplary singles, each of which featured Wilson as either producer, arranger or composer. They included a reworking of a Stephen Foster standard, retitled ‘Surfin’ Down The Swanee River’ (a number 1 in Denmark), ‘Pray For Surf’ and ‘The One You Can’t Have’, a superb attempt at emulating the Phil Spector ‘wall-of-sound’. Such releases were commercially unsuccessful but the Honeys...
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