Artist	Song
The Chantels	I (1960)
The Shirelles	Tonight's The Night (1960)
The Shirelles	Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1960)
The Crystals	There's No Other Like My Baby (1961)
The Crystals	Oh, Yeah, Maybe Baby (1961)
Ronnie & The Relatives	I Want A Boy (1961)
The Shirelles	A Thing Of The Past (1961)
The Angels	Til (1961)
The Marvelettes	Please, Mr Postman (1961)
The Shirelles	Baby, It's You (1961)
The Donays	Devil In His Heart (1962)
The Donays	Bad Boy (1962)
Earline & Her Girlfriends	Because Of You (1962)
The Crystals	Uptown (1962)
The Crystals	On Broadway (1962)
The Starlets (aka 'The Blue-belles')	I Sold My Heart To The Junkman (1962)
The Ronettes	Silhouettes (1962)
The Ronettes	Good Girls (1962)
The Shirelles	Stop The Music (1962)
The Angels	Cry, Baby, Cry (1962)
The Crystals	He's A Rebel (1962)
The Marvelettes	Strange I Know (1962)
The Crystals	He's Sure The Boy I Love (1962)
Bob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans	Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts (1962)
The Exciters	Hard Way To Go (1962)
The Exciters	Tell Him (1962)
The Cookies	Chains (1962)
The Cookies	Stranger In My Arms (1962)
Martha & The Vandellas	I'll Have To Let Him Go (1962)
The Chiffons	He's So Fine (1962)

Comment:

The second part of the mix I posted earlier today. Because of the years featured (1960-62) all of these songs represent a far more typical "Girl Group Sound" than the previous disc but there's still a clear sense of the sound developing even in the space of these three years.
Starting with the shortest song title I know (if anybody knows a shorter one, please let me know!) and concluding conveniently with one of THE archetypal Girl Group songs, "He's So Fine", recorded in the final weeks of 1962, there are several milestones along the way - almost like pieces of a familiar jigsaw falling into place: The arrival of the great song-writing teams like King & Goffin; The first classic "Wall of Sound" production - "Oh, Yeah Maybe Baby"; The debut of The Ronettes as 'Ronnie & The Relatives'; The breakthrough of Motown in the shape of The Marvelettes. As I typed out this list, it dawned on me that in places this is almost like a sampler for some of the other mixes I've submitted recently... there are songs by Greenwich, Barry, Mann, Weill and Bert Berns... no less than four songs covered by The Beatles... and even the obligatory Chiffons track! ...This is now an extended version - since I turned Part One of this mix into a 30 track collection, it seemed only fair to do the same to Part Two. Consequently I've added Martha & The Vandellas' debut release and a great King & Goffin composition: "Stranger In My Arms" by The Cookies.

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