None of Nilsson's Tower releases charted or gained much critical attention, although his songs were being recorded by Glen Campbell, Fred Astaire, The Shangri-Las, The Yardbirds, and others.

The Shangri-Las were imitated by groups like The Nu-Luvs, who had a hit with " So Soft, So Warm ", which was originally recorded by The Shangri-Las as " Dressed In Black " and used as the b-side to Jay and the Americans ' original, " He Cried ".

Soul and R & B became a major influence on surf, as well as the chart-topping girl groups like The Angels and The Shangri-Las, only some of whom were white.

Of Red Bird's first 20 releases, 15 hit the charts ; all were written and / or produced by the Barry-Greenwich team, including " Chapel of Love ", " People Say ", and " Iko Iko " by The Dixie Cups, and " Remember ( Walkin ' In The Sand )" and " Leader of the Pack " by The Shangri-Las.

* The Shangri-Las, an American girl group of the 1960s

George ' Shadow ' Morton ( b. 3 September 1940, Richmond, Virginia ) is an American record producer and songwriter best known for his influential work in the 1960s and the introduction of girl group The Shangri-Las to the pop music world.

* Ringo is the inspiration for the historically inaccurate, but highly popular song " Ringo " sung by then-Bonanza TV-cowboy Lorne Greene, which topped the pop charts at # 1 in late 1964 ( replacing The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack ").

Although there was an unrelated Scottish female group called Sophisticated Boom Boom in the early 1980s, the title of the album derives from a Shangri-Las song of the same name, and alludes the Sixties pop influences that crop up in the band's body of work — most explicitly here on the track " You Make Me Wanna ".

The recording " Remember ( Walking In The Sand )" by the Shangri-Las reached # 3 on the US pop charts in 1964, and was a worldwide teen recording hit that launched the Shangri-Las as a chart-topping recording group.

It marked a shift in girl group thematic material, where the singer loves a " bad boy ", a theme that would be amplified by later groups ( especially The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack ").

With their growing popularity, the Shangri-Las became a leading girl group in the 1960s.

As a musician and record producer, Amels has worked with Ben E. King, Lenny Kravitz, Mary Weiss of 1960s girl group The Shangri-Las, and Dennis Diken of The Smithereens.

He was a key architect in creating the girl group sound of the mid-1960s, by continuing to write and produce hit teen melodramas for the Shangri-Las, including " Leader of the Pack ", " I Can Never Go Home Anymore ", and " Give Him A Great Big Kiss ".

Also in 1977 Stein, who had worked with the group in the 1960s, convinced the Shangri-Las to reform and return to the studio.

After several unsuccessful releases in a style similar to the Shangri-Las, including Jeff Barry ’ s " I ’ m Nobody ’ s Baby Now ," and " I Can Hear the Rain " which featured the then-unknown Melba Moore, the group moved again to Mala Records.

In the 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records, which issued The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack " and The Dixie Cups ' " Chapel of Love ".

Mary Weiss, born on December 28, 1948 in Queens, New York, found fame in the 1960s as the lead singer of The Shangri-Las.

The CD " Private World: The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972 / 3 " includes their versions of songs by Otis Redding, Gary US Bonds, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las and Muddy Waters.

For their next album, Too Much Too Soon, the quintet hired producer George " Shadow " Morton, whose productions for the Shangri-Las and other girl-groups in the mid-1960s had been among the band's favorites.

The Detergents had hits with " Leader of the Laundromat " and " I Can Never Eat Home Any More ", both of which parodied The Shangri-Las.

Brooklyn band Vivian Girls cite The Shangri-Las as one of their influences.

* The Shangri-Las. com

* Out In The Streets, The Story of The Shangri-Las, an extensive article by John J. Grecco

In 1984, Redd Kross returned with drummer Dave Peterson to record Teen Babes from Monsanto, an album featuring songs originally by such artists as Kiss, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Shangri-Las.

* Burnt Aces and the Shangri-Las, Ceolfrith Press, 1978.

* www. LostHorizon. org information about the book, movie, and real life Shangri-Las.

Those shows featured the top performers of the era and introduced new acts, such as Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Little Anthony & The Imperials, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E. King, the Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Bobby Vinton ( who was the leader of the house band when he asked for a chance to perform as a singer ), The Lovin ' Spoonful, Cream, and The Who, among many others.

A version of The Shangri-Las ' 1965 hit " Out in the Streets " was also included on this album.

It featured guest appearances by stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Judy Garland and Sammy Davis, Jr., as well as musical groups like the Shangri-Las, The Supremes and The Temptations.

She later came back to New York and occasionally gave shows with the Shangri-Las during the 1970s which led to a comeback attempt with Sire Records in 1977.

In 1989, the Shangri-Las reunited one last time for a concert in Palisades Park, New Jersey.

The Shangri-Las included a version of the song in their debut LP Leader of the Pack in 1965.

The last song played on WINS before it became a news station was " Out in the Streets ", by The Shangri-Las, on April 18, 1965, at around 8 PM.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

But whereas the postwar American abstractionists seem to Helion to be determined to `` escape '' from the real world, or simply to rebel against it, the ordered abstractions which he and his associates of the 1930's were painting embodied the hope of `` improving '' things.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

On his bookshelves were some of the latest American novels, including Bellow's Seize The Day, but he hadn't read them ( they were sent by American publishers ) and wasn't especially interested in what the American writers were up to.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.