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The Shirelles

THE SHIRELLES

YEAR

1996

INDUCTED BY

Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Marianne Faithful

CATEGORY

Performers

The girls next door sang like a heavenly chorus.

The Shirelles were the honey-voiced purveyors of Fifties and Sixties hits. “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”—the first girl group song to hit Number One—remains a girl group classic to this day.

Addie 'Micki' Harris

Addie 'Micki' Harris

Beverly Lee

Beverly Lee

Doris Kenner-Jackson

Doris Kenner-Jackson

Shirley Alston-Reeves

Shirley Alston-Reeves

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Mike Hill

When Laura Nyro and Labelle resurrected the Shirelles’ “I Met Him on a Sunday” on Gonna Take a Miracle, a collection of R&B faves from Nyro’s youth, there was nothing nostalgic about the tune.

The lyrics, which had the feel of jump-rope rhymes, came across as a sort of plainspoken street poetry, a wistfully romantic chronicle of fleeting and fickle desire.

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