The Paris Sisters were a 1960s American girl group from San Francisco, best known for their work with record producer Phil Spector.[1]
The Paris Sisters | |
|---|---|
| Origin | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Genres | Pop |
| Years active | 1954–1968 |
| Labels | Decca Imperial Gregmark MGM Mercury Reprise Capitol Sidewalk |
| Past members | Priscilla Paris Albeth Paris Sherrell Paris |
Career
editThe group consisted of lead singer Priscilla Paris (January 4, 1945 – March 5, 2004), her older sister Albeth Carole Paris, and their middle sister Sherrell Paris.[1] They reached the peak of their success in October 1961 with the hit single "I Love How You Love Me", which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart,[2] and sold over one million copies.[3] Some of the group's other hit songs include the US Top 40 single "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" (March 1962, No. 34), "All Through The Night" (1961),[4] "Be My Boy" (No. 56), "Let Me Be The One" (No. 87), and "Dream Lover" (No. 91).[5]
The Paris Sisters appeared in the 1962 British rock film It's Trad, Dad! (released in the U.S. as Ring-a-Ding Rhythm) directed by Richard Lester.[6] In the film, they performed the Spector-produced song "What Am I to Do?"[7] Also early in the 1960s, the Paris Sisters sang the jingle for Diet Rite soda.
Sherrell Paris later served as a production assistant on The Price Is Right and as host Bob Barker's personal assistant until she was released in 2000.[8]
Priscilla Paris died on March 5, 2004, from injuries suffered in a fall at her home in Pays de la Loire, France.[9] She was 59.[10]
Albeth Paris died in Palm Springs, California, on December 5, 2014. She was 79.[11]
Discography
editAlbums
edit- Sing From the Glass House, Unifilms Records (1966)
- Golden Hits of The Paris Sisters, Sidewalk Records (1967)
- Sing Everything Under The Sun, Reprise Records (1967)
- The Best of The Paris Sisters, Curb Records (2004)
- The Complete Phil Spector Sessions, Varèse Sarabande (2006)
- Always Heavenly, Ace Records (2016)
Singles
edit| Year | Title | Peak chart positions |
Record Label | B-side | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Pop |
US AC | |||||
| 1954 | "Ooh La La" | — | — | Decca | "Whose Arms Are You Missing" | |
| 1955 | "Huckleberry Pie" | — | — | "Baby, Honey, Baby" | ||
| "The "Know-How"" | — | — | "I Wanna" | |||
| "Lover Boy" | — | — | "Oh Yes, You Do" | |||
| 1956 | "I Love You Dear (Year-Round Love)" | — | — | "Mistaken" | ||
| "Daughter, Daughter!" | — | — | "So Much - So Very Much" | |||
| 1957 | "(Don't Stop, Don't Stop) Tell Me More" | — | — | Imperial | "Old Enough to Cry" | |
| 1958 | "Someday" | — | — | "My Original Love" | ||
| "Don't Tell Anybody" | — | — | Decca | "Mind Reader" | ||
| 1961 | "Be My Boy" | 56 | — | Gregmark | "I'll Be Crying Tomorrow" | |
| "I Love How You Love Me" | 5 | — | "All Through the Night" | |||
| 1962 | "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" | 34 | 7 | "A Lonely Girl's Prayer" | ||
| "Let Me Be the One" | 87 | — | "What Am I to Do" | |||
| "Yes - I Love You" | — | — | "Once Upon a While Ago" | |||
| 1964 | "Dream Lover" | 91 | — | MGM | "Lonely Girl" | |
| "When I Fall in Love" | — | — | Mercury | "Once Upon a Time" | ||
| 1965 | "Why Do I Take It From You" | — | — | "Always Waitin'" | ||
| 1966 | "Sincerely" | — | — | Reprise | "Too Good to Be True" | The Paris Sisters Sing Everything Under the Sun!!! |
| "I'm Me" | — | — | "You" | |||
| "My Good Friend" | — | — | "It's My Party" | |||
| 1967 | "Some of Your Lovin'" | — | — | "Long After Tonight Is All Over" | The Paris Sisters Sing Everything Under the Sun!!! | |
| 1968 | "Greener Days" | — | — | Capitol | "Golden Days" | |
| "The Ugliest Girl in Town" | — | — | GNP Crescendo | "Stand Naked Clown" | ||
References
edit- ^ a b Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1904. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ O'Dair, Barbara (1997). The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock: Trouble Girls (1st ed.). New York: Random House. p. 115. ISBN 0-679-76874-2.
- ^ Betrock, Alan (1982). Girl Groups The Story of a Sound (1st ed.). New York: Delilah Books. p. 29. ISBN 0-933328-25-7.
- ^ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2003). Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 (10th ed.). Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 534. ISBN 0-89820-155-1.
- ^ "Paris Sisters". 2.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ "It's Trad, Dad! (1962) Soundtrack". Ringostrack.com. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Adams, Greg (2014-04-02). "Music Weird: Music Weird interviews Sherrell Paris of the Paris Sisters". Musicweird.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ III, Harris M. Lentz (24 October 2008). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2004: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-7864-5209-5.
- ^ Jason Ankeny (2004-03-05). "The Paris Sisters | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-07-31.
- ^ Fessier, Bruce. "Mickey Rooney, radio stars among valley celebrity deaths". The Desert Sun. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
