Hit Parade: Be My Baby-Baby-Baby Edition Part 1

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	The International Best Seller by Heather Morris, now a Sky Original series.
0:08.0	You're looking for someone to write your life story.
0:10.0	I was a young man, lock up in a terrible place.
0:15.0	But I found something there, someone.
0:22.0	Watch now on... there, someone.
0:24.0	Watch now on Sky Atlantic and buy the book at all good bookshops.
0:31.0	Hey there, Hip Parade listeners, what you're about to hear is part one of this episode.
0:37.0	Part two will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month.
0:41.0	Would you like to hear this episode all at once, the day it drops? Sign up for
0:46.3	Slate Plus. It supports not only this show but all of Slate's acclaimed journalism and podcasts.
0:53.8	Just go to Slate.com slash Hit Parade Plus.
0:58.0	You'll get to hear every Hit Parade episode in full
1:01.3	the day it arrives, Plus, hit parade, the bridge, our bonus episodes with
1:07.0	guest interviews, deeper dives on our episode topics, and pop chart trivia. Once again, again to join that's slate.com slash hit parade plus.
1:18.0	Thanks and now please enjoy part one of this hit parade episode.
1:23.0	Going to the chapel and we're gonna get married.
1:31.0	Going to the chapel and we're gonna get married.
1:39.0	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from
1:45.8	Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst pop critic and writer of Slate's Why Is This
1:52.0	Number One series.
1:54.0	On today's show, 60 years ago, in late May 1964,
2:00.0	a black female trio from New Orleans, who'd moved to New York City to make it big
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