THE ORLONS
Audrey and the Teenettes dreamed of having a music career like rock's trailblazing late-1950s girl groups The Chantels, The Shirelles and others. In every high school there seemed to be at least one tightly-knit clique with similar goals and enough talent and drive to take a shot at it. Audrey Brickley and her sisters Shirley and Jean, along with Marlena Davis and Rosetta Hightower, all around fourteen years old at the end of the '50s, formed a vocal quintet while attending Philadelphia's Overbrook High School in 1960. Their ages presented a problem early on, and the Brickley girls' mother didn't approve of the kinds of clubs and adult hangouts where they might be performing, insisting Audrey and Jean give it up (though slightly-older sister Shirley continued) ... MORE ››
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