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Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Girl groups have long been underestimated—even by the producers and managers who created them. For women listeners, girl groups narrated profound emotions and expressed personal freedom—even when the singers were not so free themselves. For male listeners, girl groups provided inspiration, and a way to express matters of the heart. And for all listeners across rock and soul history, girl groups pushed music forward. In the ’60s, the Shirelles, Marvelettes, Ronettes and Shangri-Las kept rock afloat between Elvis Presley and the Beatles. In the ’70s and ’80s, girl groups from the Emotions to Exposé rebooted dance music. In the ’90s, En Vogue, TLC and Destiny’s Child fused hip-hop style with old-school soul—and the Spice Girls fired up a new generation through Girl Power. Join Chris Molanphy as we shimmy and strut through decades of bops to give girl groups the respect they deserve. You’ll love them tomorrow, because friendship never ends. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Want more Hit Parade? Join Slate Plus to unlock monthly early-access episodes. Plus, you’ll get ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/hitparadeplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Try Dove's best ever body wash today. Welcome. Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from
0:51.6	Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malamphi, chart analyst,
0:54.8	pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series. On our last
1:00.3	episode we walked through the history of the girl group, most especially its early
1:06.5	60s heyday when vocal ensembles like the charelles, the Ronets, and the Shangri-Laz were commanding the charts. After Motown Superstars, the Supremes dominated the late 60s,
1:20.9	the Girl Group era passed into history, but disco, new wave, and freestyle dance music
1:28.0	kept the girl group alive through the 70s and 80s.
1:32.3	We are now entering the 90s when a new generation of
1:37.0	sisters with voices who emerged after hip-hop are about to infuse the hit parade with a girl group renaissance.
1:47.5	The debut album by the Quartet and Vogue was titled Born to Sing. You might say it was truth in advertising.
1:57.7	The four women who made up the group, Terry Ellis,
2:01.2	Cindy Heron, Maxine Jones, and Dawn Robinson came from all over the United States
2:08.3	and all possessed powerful voices.
2:11.3	Each was capable of singing lead.
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