In 1965 Viola Billups from Alabama and Earnestine and Shirley Pearce met up in a New York recording studio and decided to pool the vocal forces they'd been using in other groups since 1962.They soon made an impression on audiences at the famed Apollo Theatre as well as The Paramount.But somehow despite rave notices that kept them busy from coast to coast and some well received records,the girls never really hit it as big as they hoped.

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