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I am so excited to be here today to kick off a series of episodes, actually a

trilogy of episodes that we're about to put out on girl groups through the last, let's say,

70 years. I mean, girl groups have been an integral part of pop music history since the last

hundred years or so. But beginning with the explosion of the girl group wave of the middle of this century in the 50s and 60s, they've played such an important integral role in forming our ideas of what pop music is, what the idea of pop stardom is, what it looks like, what pop singers sing about, how they look, who they're singing to,

et cetera, et cetera.

Plus, they've created so much of the greatest music of all time.

So we thought it would be a really fun and instructive little series to put together

that sort of lays this out by utilizing a group of artists or a group of girl groups

that are emblematic of various different waves

of girl groups over the last seven or eight decades, let's say. So today's episode is going to

focus on a group of girl groups from the 50s and 60s, the Ronettes, the Shirels, the Marvelettes,

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