This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The Spice Girls? Forget about it. The Go-Go’s? Get outta here.
This is the original girl-power sound: The Girl Groups who ruled the late ’50s and early ’60s, after Elvis Presley left for the army and before The Beatles arrived. Most of these Left Coast ladies — The Sisters, Brenda Holloway, The Ladybugs, Pippy Shannon, Lori Martin — never achieved the prominence of The Shangri-Las or The Ronettes. But that seems to have just been the luck of the draw. As this finger-popping, head-bopping set of soul, R&B and surf tunes illustrates, they had the same harmonies, the same attitude and the same sassy sound as their more famous sisters. And they lived in the same world of high school heartbreak, walking in the sand, and guys who dance close — very, very close.
