From KCRW, this is Lost Notes.

With the shags, the first listen is the hardest.

You're such a sweet thing, sweet thing, sweet thing, but you can be so mean.

You're such a sweet thing, sweet thing, sweet thing, you used to make me dream.

It doesn't make sense.

You listen to this music and it literally makes no sense.

You keep thinking, I'm going to figure this out.

I'm going to figure out how the melody is organized or something.

Otherwise, it just feels like an assault of random notes.

To be generous, their voices are not professional.

Their musicianship is not particularly professional.

And then after listening a few times, there was this switch.

This music just seems like you're peering into someone's soul.

And I began listening to their music obsessively.

Hey friends.

I'm Solomon Giorgio.

I'm a music fanatic, but everything I know about music can be found in the liner notes of a Carly Ray Jepson album.

So I didn't know about the shags.

I'm Dorothy May Wiggin-Samprini.

I was the leader of the band, and I played the melody on the songs and wrote the most of them.

I'm Betty Wigan Porter and I played rhythm in the shags.

Three girls in the late 60s who were forced, yeah, pretty much forced by their father to start a band.

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