Jeanne & The Darlings

Biography

Jeanne and The Darlings were a group of Arkansas-based, gospel-raised singers which included sisters Jeanne and Dee Dolphus, Jeanne’s daughter Paula, and family friend Phefe Harris. In addition to their service as background studio singers at Stax, they released six great 45s of their own on Volt in the late 1960s.

Solid warblers from Arkansas who recorded for Stax Records in the late 60s. The bevy consisted of Jeanne and Delores "Dee" Dolphus and two unidentified females. Jeanne worked under the stage name of Jeanne Darling and also went by Mary Jean Cotton -- she wrote songs, a total of 13 cleared with B.M.I., under all three names. Prior to Stax, they recorded as the Dolphus Sisters on Avant Records. Isaac Hayes and David Porter wrote and produced their first two Volt (a subsidiary of Stax) singles: "How Can You Mistreat the One You Love" b/w "That Man of Mine" (1967) and "Soul Girl" (1968), nice songs that didnt go. The company assigned Homer Banks and Alan Jones for the third single, "What Will Later on Be Like," released late in 1968. Banks, along with Don Davis and Clyde Wilson (Steve Mancha), wrote "Its Unbelievable (How You Control My Soul)" a gutty May 1969 release backed with a revamping of Carla Thomas "I Like What Youre Doing to Me." Volt issued the final Jeanne and the Darlings single October 1969, but "Its Time to Pay for the Fun (Weve Had)" didnt even pay the water bill and Jeanne and the Darlings vanished forever. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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