The Jaynetts

The Jaynetts were an R & B group whose members are from the Bronx in New York came from. The girl group had only one hit, Sally Go ' Round the Roses, who came to the U.S. singles charts in 1963 at # 2.

Emergence and success of single

Abner Spector, the owner of the Chicago record company Tuff, sought in New York, the trend of the time following, after a girl group and turned to Zelma " Zell" Sanders, the owner of J & S Records label. Sanders presented Spector, a group of four young women together - Ethel Davis ( b. 1944 ), Yvonne Bushnell ( born 1945 ), Ada Ray ( b. 1944 ) and Mary Sue Wells ( b. 1946 ) - with whom Spector recorded the song, which of Sanders had been written.

These four votes he mixed twenty more votes from visitors who randomly appeared partly in the studio and drove the cost of over several days protracted recording session to over $ 60,000, a very high for that time sum for the production of a single song. The single was released at Tuff Records and recorded for the first time on 31 August 1963 in the U.S. charts, stayed there for twelve weeks and reached two weeks behind the other 2

Development of the Group

After the release of the single was the fifth member of the group Johnnie Louise Richardson ( b. 1945 ), daughter of Sanders added. Johnnie had previously been the female part of the duo Johnnie & Joe, the 1957 Over the Mountain, ' Cross the Sea was able to land a hit, which reached number 8 in the U.S. singles charts. Richardson died on October 25, 1988 of heart failure.

Although the Jaynetts went after the success of the plate on tour, but the group that had been together only as a studio group for the recording that a single, it brought no further placement in the charts. The song Sally Go ' Round the Roses but was due to his musically groundbreaking arrangements, its mysterious and eerie mood for classic and cult plate. Andy Warhol declared the piece to his favorite music. Followed later cover versions of Question Mark & the Mysterians, Pentangle (1969 ), Alannah Myles (1995 ) or Inner Circle (1998).