THE SHANGRI-LAS - THE SHANGRI-LAS 65 (LP)

Shangri-Las Shangri-Las 65 on Vinyl LP

Along with the Shirelles and the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las were among the greatest girl groups; if judged solely on the basis of attitude, they were the greatest of them all. They combined an innocent adolescent charm with more than a hint of darkness, singing about dead bikers, teenage runaways, and doomed love affairs as well as ebullient high-school crushes. These could be delivered with either infectious, handclapping harmonies or melodramatic, almost operatic recitatives. Tying it all together in the studio was George 'Shadow' Morton, a mad genius of a producer who may have been second in eccentric imagination only to Phil Spector in the mid-'60s. Shangri-Las 65 was the group's first album, originally released on Mike Stoller's Red Bird label.

Shangri-Las Shangri-Las 65 Track Listing:

1.  Right Now And Not Later
2.  Never Again
3.  Give Us Your Blessings
4.  Sophisticated Boom Boom
5.  I'm Blue
6.  Heaven Only Knows
7.  The Train From Kansas City
8.  Out In The Streets
9.  What's A Girl Supposed To Do
10. The Dum Dum Ditty
11. You Cheated, You Lied
12. Boy