Soul legend James Brown once famously wailed, “This is a man’s world/But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl.” For many female musical icons whose harmonies have been ...

*The 1950s and ’60s girl groups – epitomized by acts like The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Shirelles (featuring Beverly Lee), The Supremes, and The Vandellas – revolutionized American pop music and ...

There was a standing joke at Scepter Records. Label head Florence Greenberg told the Shirelles that for their next single she would release whichever song group leader Shirley Alston Reeves thought ...

Three recordings with musical roots planted in the Garden State are on this year’s list of audio treasures and deemed worthy of preservation by the Library of Congress. The album “Tonight’s the Night” ...