Sunday, May 15, 2011

LEADER OF THE PACK // THE SHANGRI-LAS


Oh! sweet, sweet pop music.  I love bands that have four times as many "best of" compilations as they had studio albums to begin with. This four piece of bad girls from Queens, released only two studio albums, & a handful of singles in the mid-sixties. Their mainstay is songs of high school love and loss, with 16 year old lead singer Mary Weis belting the teenage melodrama.  Catch some live footage here.