The Jaynetts

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Sally, Go 'Round the Roses
  US 2 August 31, 1963 (12 weeks)

The Jaynetts were an R&B group whose members came from the Bronx , New York . The girl group had only one hit, Sally Go 'Round the Roses , which hit number 2 on the US singles chart in 1963 .

Creation and successful single

Abner Spector, the owner of the Chicago record company Tuff , was looking for a girl group in New York, following the trend of the time, and turned to Zelma "Zell" Sanders, the owner of the J&S record label. Sanders put Spector together a group of four young women - Ethel Davis (* 1944), Yvonne Bushnell (* 1945), Ada Ray (* 1944) and Mary Sue Wells (* 1946) - with whom Spector recorded the song, which by Sanders had been written.

To these four voices, he mixed about twenty other voices from visitors, some of whom turned up in the studio by chance, and drove the cost of the recording session, which lasted several days, to over $ 60,000, a very high sum for the production of a single song at the time . The single was released on Tuff Records and was listed for the first time on August 31, 1963 in the US charts, stayed there for twelve weeks and reached number 2 for two weeks in a row.

Development of the group

After the single was released, Johnnie Louise Richardson (* 1945), the daughter of Sanders, joined the group as a fifth member. Johnnie had previously been the female part of the duo Johnnie & Joe, who had a hit in 1957 with Over the Mountain, 'Cross the Sea , which reached number 8 in the US singles charts. Richardson died of heart failure on October 25, 1988.

Although the Jaynetts went on tour after the success of the record, the group, which had only been put together as a studio group for the recording of that single single, did not get any further placement in the charts. The song Sally Go 'Round the Roses became a classic and cult record due to its musically groundbreaking arrangement, its mysterious and eerie mood. Andy Warhol declared the piece to be his favorite single. Cover versions of Question Mark & ​​the Mysterians , Pentangle (1969), Alannah Myles (1995) and Inner Circle (1998) followed later .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 .
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1994, p. 306
  3. ^ Frank Laufenberg / Ingrid Hake: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 2. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf and Vienna 1994, p. 765 f.
  4. ↑ Jeff Pike: The Death Of Rock 'n' Roll . Faber and Faber, Boston / London 1993, pp. 110-112
  5. ↑ Charlotte Greig: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Girl bands from the 50s to today. Translated from the English by Markus Schröder. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1991, pp. 97f
  6. ↑ coverinfo.de

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