The Angels (band)

The Angels (band)

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Angels


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Background = group_or_band
Genre = Pop, bubblegum pop
Years_active = 1963-present
Country = United States
Label = Caprice, Smash, RCA Victor, Polydor
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URL = [http://www.theangelsonline.com/ The Official Website]
Current_members = Barbara Allbut
Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut
Peggy Santiglia
Past_members = Linda Jansen
Debra Swisher
Bernadette Carroll

The Angels were an American girl group, best-known for their 1963 number 1 hit, "My Boyfriend's Back".

History

Barbara Allbut and Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut and Linda [Jansen] Jankowski had their first hit in 1961, "Til", followed by a lesser success called "Cry Baby Cry". Both songs were released on the Caprice label. Linda left and was replaced by Peggy Santiglia, formerly of The Delicates.

In 1963 , the trio signed to Mercury Records' Smash subsidiary label and began working with the Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer songwriting team, who wrote "My Boyfriend's Back". The Angels' performance was meant as a demo for The Shirelles to consider recording, but the music publishers chose instead to release it as it stood.Fact|date=May 2007 The song was a major hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but no follow-up of comparable success was released.

Santiglia, along with former lead singer of the Angels, Bernadette Carroll (who had her own hit "Party Girl") and Denise Ferri (formerly of the East-Coast-based group the Delicates), sang background on Lou Christie's #1 hit "Lightning Strikes" as well as the follow-up "Rhapsody In The Rain."Fact|date=May 2007 The group left Smash records in 1964, and due to a dispute over the rights to the name "The Angels", they signed to Congress Records and became The Halos. Peggy left the group and was replaced by Toni Mason. The group released several singles, none of which charted.

In 1967 , Toni left the group and was replaced by Debra Swisher (previously of The Pixies Three), who had recently recorded and released her own version of "Thank You And Goodnight" on the ABC-Paramount Records subsidiary, Boom Records. This lineup resumed using the name "The Angels" and released a handful of singles on RCA Records, with Bernadette Carroll singing lead, and made an appearance on "The Dean Martin Show" before disbanding in 1968. Jiggs, Barbara and Peggy regrouped in the early 1970s and released a new single on Polydor. Jiggs and Peggy continue performing as The Angels, joined occasionally by Barbara.

Members

* Barbara Allbut (born September 24, 1940, in Orange, New Jersey).
* Phyllis Allbut (born September 24, 1942, in Orange, New Jersey).
* Peggy Santiglia (born May 4 1944, in New Jersey)

Singles

Starlets
* "P.S. I Love You" / "Where Is My Love Tonight" (1960) Astro 202 - U.S. #106
* "Romeo And Juliet" / "Listen For A Lonely Tambourine" (1960) Astro 204 Angels
* "Til" / "Moment Ago" (1961) Caprice 107 - U.S. #14
* "Cry Baby Cry" / "That's All I Ask Of You" (1962) Caprice 112 - U.S. #38
* "Everybody Loves A Lover" / "Blow, Joe" (1962) Caprice 116 - U.S. #103
* "I'd Be Good For You" / "You Should Have Told Me" (1962) Caprice 118
* "A Moment Ago" / "Cotton Fields" (1962) Caprice 121
* "Cotton Fields" / "Irresistible" (1963) Ascot 2139 - U.S. #119
* "My Boyfriend's Back" / "(Love Me) Now" (1963) Smash 1834 - U.S. #1
* "I Adore Him" / "Thank You And Goodnight" (1963) Smash 1854 - U.S. #25 and #84 (B side)
* "Wow Wow Wee (He's The Boy For Me)" / "Snowflakes And Teardrops" (1964) Smash 1870 - U.S. #41
* "Little Beatle Boy" / "Java" (1964) Smash 1885
* "Dream Boy" / "Jamaica Joe" (1964) Smash 1915
* "The Boy From 'Cross Town" / "A World Without Love" (1964) Smash 1931
* "What To Do" / "I Had A Dream I Lost You" (1967) RCA 9129
* "You'll Never Get To Heaven" / "Go Out And Play" (1967) RCA 9246
* "You're The Cause Of It" / "With Love" (1967) RCA 9404
* "The Modley" / "If I Didn't Love You" (1968) RCA 9541
* "The Boy With The Green Eyes" / "But For Love" (1968) RCA 9612
* "Merry Go Round" / "So Nice" (1968) RCA 9681
* "Papa's Side Of The Bed" / "You're All I Need To Get By" (1974) Polydor 14222

External links

* [http://www.history-of-rock.com/angels.htm The Angels at history-of-rock.com]
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* http://www.theangelsonline.com/


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