Doris Coley (August 2, 1941 – February 4, 2000) was an American musician, who was best known as a member (and occasional lead singer) of The Shirelles. She initially left the group in 1968, but returned in 1975.
Coley was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Through marriages, she became Doris Coley Kenner and later, Doris Kenner Jackson.
She was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame with the other original members of the Shirelles in 1996.
1. The Shirelles – The Shirelles were an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens, Doris Coley, Addie Micki Harris, founded in 1957 for a talent show at their high school, they were signed by Florence Greenberg of Tiara Records. Their first single, I Met Him on a Sunday, was released by Tiara, after a brief and unsuccessful period with Decca, they went with Greenberg to her newly formed company, Scepter Records. Working with Luther Dixon, the rose to fame with Tonights the Night. After a successful period of collaboration with Dixon and promotion by Scepter, with seven top 20 hits, afterwards, they were unable to maintain their previous popularity. The Shirelles have been described as having a naive schoolgirl sound that contrasted with the themes of many of their songs. Several of their hits used strings and baião-style music and they have been credited with launching the girl group genre, with much of their music reflecting the genres essence. Their acceptance by white and black audiences, predating that of the Motown acts, has been noted as reflecting the early success of the Civil Rights Movement. Two of their songs, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and Tonights the Night, were selected by Rolling Stone on its list of the greatest songs of all time. The group that became the Shirelles was formed in 1957 by four teenage girls from Passaic, New Jersey. The founding members, Shirley Owens, Doris Coley, Addie Micki Harris, after several months of avoiding Greenberg and telling her that they were not interested in singing professionally, they were booked to Tiara. That year, they released their first song, I Met Him on a Sunday, after success, it was licensed to Decca Records for national broadcast. The song was influenced by doo-wop, but infused with pop melodies. C and their first single produced with Dixon, Tonights the Night, was released in 1960 and peaked at #39. The success of Tonights the Night led to the girls being booked to perform with major artists, such as Etta James and Little Richard. Tonights the Night was later used as the song for the 1961 album Tonights the Night. After the success of their singles, the Shirelles became frequent guests of Murray the K, in 1963 Dixon left Scepter, which presaged a tailing-off of the number of the Shirelles singles to chart. However, they carried on performing and recording, dionne Warwick replaced Owens and Coley, who took leave to marry their fiancés, in concerts and the group continued to record material. That year, their song Foolish Little Girl reached the pop/R&B Top 10, however, later in 1963 they learned that the trust, holding their royalties, that they were supposed to receive from Scepter on their 21st birthdays, did not exist
2. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fames permanent home.8 billion, the Foundation began inducting artists in 1986, but the Hall of Fame still had no home. The search committee considered several cities, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York City, Cleveland was also one of the premier tour stops for most rock bands. Civic leaders in Cleveland pledged $65 million in money to fund the construction. A petition drive was signed by 600,000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, on May 5,1986, the Hall of Fame Foundation chose Cleveland as the permanent home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Sam Phillips of Sun Studios fame and many others were stunned and disappointed that it ended up in Cleveland, the hall of fame shouldve been in Memphis, certainly, wrote Peter Guralnick, author of an acclaimed two-volume Elvis Presley biography. Cleveland may also have chosen as the organizations site because the city offered the best financial package. As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, It was $65 million, Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money. During early discussions on where to build the Hall of Fame and Museum, ultimately, the chosen location was along East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland by Lake Erie, east of Cleveland Stadium. Initial CEO Dr. Larry R. Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei in designs for the site, Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass pyramid protruding from it. The museum tower was planned to stand 200 ft high. The buildings base is approximately 150,000 square feet, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 7,1993. Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum all appeared at the groundbreaking. The museum was dedicated on September 1,1995, with the ribbon being cut by an ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others, the following night an all-star concert was held at the stadium. It featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, John Fogerty, John Mellencamp, and many others. In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees, the documents the entire history of rock and roll. Hall of Fame inductees are honored in an exhibit located in a wing that juts out over Lake Erie. Since 1986, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has selected new inductees, the formal induction ceremony has been held in New York City 25 times, twice in Los Angeles, and four times in the Hall of Fames home in Cleveland
3. Find a Grave – Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
4. Lead vocalist – The lead vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer either leads the ensemble, or sets against the ensemble as the dominant sound. In vocal group performances, notably in soul and gospel music, and early rock and roll, as an example in rock music, Mick Jagger is the lead singer of The Rolling Stones. Similarly in soul music, Smokey Robinson was the singer of The Miracles. The practice of using a lead singer in vocal groups, however, has a longer history, songs of the late nineteenth century frequently used a leading solo voice, followed by a choral response by other singers. From these various points - including Motown - it went on to become a device in much rock. In some bands - most famously, The Beatles - the role of lead singer alternated, while in others - for example, there are as many types and styles of lead singer as there are styles and genres of music. However, the singer of a group or band is usually the main focus of audiences attention. The lead vocalist of a band is called the front man or front woman. Pink Floyd also can be considered a band with two front men, as both the guitarist David Gilmour and the bassist Roger Waters sang and wrote most of the songs. In the beginning of the career, however, Pink Floyds lead singer and guitarist was Syd Barrett. Particularly before the 1970s, many bands were named for the leader or founder, rather than the lead singer, examples include the Dave Clark Five and Harold Melvin. In modern rock music, the singer is often, but not always, also the bands leader. While lead singers or spokespersons for any musical ensembles can be called a front man, since the position commonly has an expanded role from simple lead vocalists, there have been cases in which the front man for a band is someone other than the lead vocalist. In many bands, such as The Who, Fall Out Boy, Led Zeppelin, Living Colour, Queen and Oasis, usually, this is derived from that guitarists specific role as a co-songwriter, co-founder and/or co-vocalist. Also in some cases, there are two frontmen, such as Underoath, with singers Spencer Chamberlain and Aaron Gillespie sharing vocal duties, another example is Blink-182, in which vocal duties are split between bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge. Hoppus usually carries out most media either by himself or together with DeLonge, linkin Park has two vocalists as well, Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda, both considered as frontmen. Another example is the metal band Metallica, in which James Hetfield
5. Goldsboro, North Carolina – Goldsboro is a city in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 36,437 at the 2010 Census and it is the principal city of and is included in the Goldsboro, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The nearby town of Waynesboro was founded in 1787 and Goldsboro was incorporated in 1847 and it is the county seat of Wayne County. Goldsboro is best known as home to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, as of the 2000 census, there were 39,043 people,14,630 households, and 19,465 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,574.9 inhabitants per square mile, there were 19,372 housing units at an average density of 660.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 52. 24% African American,43. 04% White,0. 43% Native American,1. 44% Asian,0. 08% Pacific Islander,1. 14% from other races, and 1. 64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 69% of the population,30. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the family size was 3.00. The median income for a household in the city was $29,456, males had a median income of $26,223 versus $21,850 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,614, about 15. 4% of families and 19. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 26. 7% of those under age 18 and 17. 5% of those age 65 or over. Around 1787, when Wayne County was formed, a town named Waynesborough grew around the countys courthouse, in 1787, William Whitfield III and his son were appointed Directors and Trustees for designing and building the town. Located on the east bank of the Neuse River, the became the county seat. Population growth in Waynesborough continued through the 1830s, however, this changed once the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad was completed in the early 1840s. By then, a hotel had been built at the intersection of the railroad and New Bern Road, later this was shortened simply to Goldsborough. In 1847, the town was incorporated and became the new Wayne County seat following a vote of the citizens of Wayne County, local legend has it the Goldsborough supporters put moonshine in the towns well to encourage people to vote for Goldsborough. In the following decades, Goldsboroughs growth continued in part by new connections to Charlotte. By 1861, the population was estimated to be 1,500. It was the center of a rural area that started with yeoman farmers
6. Foolish Little Girl – Foolish Little Girl is a 1963 album by The Shirelles. The title track turned out to be the last of the big hits. The albums other single, Dont Say Goodnight and Mean Goodbye, was The Shirelles last top forty US hit, despite their weakening chart impact, the demand for Shirelles recordings continued to grow. The same year, they had provided material for the film Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, foolish Little Girl also contains material by Ellie Greenwich and Van McCoy. Dionne Bromfield covered the song on her debut album Introducing Dionne Bromfield in 2009 along with another Shirelles hit Mama Said
7. Will You Love Me Tomorrow – Will You Love Me Tomorrow, also known as Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It was originally recorded in 1960 by the Shirelles, who took their single to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song is also notable for being the first song by an all-girl group to reach number one in the United States. It has since recorded by many artists over the years. In 1960, the American girl group the Shirelles released the first version of the song as Scepter single 1211, the singles first pressing was labelled simply Tomorrow, then lengthened later. When first presented with the song, lead singer Shirley Owens did not want to record it and she relented after a string arrangement was added. The song is in AABA form, in 1961, the Shirelles took their single Will You Love Me Tomorrow to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Their version of the song, with session musician Gary Chester on drums, is ranked as the 162nd greatest song of all time, as well as the best song of 1960. The Shirelles version was ranked among Rolling Stone s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at number 126, the song later appeared on the soundtrack of Michael Apteds Stardust. Bertell Dache, a demo singer for the Brill Building songwriters, recorded an answer song entitled Not just Tomorrow. However, an ad for United Artists Records which appeared in Billboard during 1961 featured a photo of the singer which conclusively proved that Dache was not Tony Orlando. The Satintones, an early Motown group, also recorded a song called Tomorrow and Always. Following a threat of litigation, later pressings of the record included proper credit, the Satintones versions are included in the box set The Complete Motown Singles, Volume 1, 1959–1961. In 1971 Carole King, the co-writer of the song, recorded a version of Will You Love Me Tomorrow for her studio album Tapestry, with Joni Mitchell. Kings version of the song was taken at a slower tempo and with a more contemplative. It gained considerable album-oriented rock airplay due to the large commercial success of the album. The song became a feature of Kings live shows, Taylor recreated his part during their joint arena-based Troubadour Reunion Tour of 2010. No other song is featured as frequently in the musical and this was the first cover of the song. The Four Seasons had a number 24 hit with the song on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968, linda Ronstadt released a version on her 1970 album, Silk Purse
8. Baby It's You – Baby Its You is a song written by Burt Bacharach, Luther Dixon and Mack David. It was recorded by the Shirelles and the Beatles, and became hits for both, the highest-charting version of Baby Its You was by the band Smith, who took the song to number five on the US charts in 1969. The song was produced by Luther Dixon and it later appeared on the album Baby Its You, named to capitalize upon the success of the single. The vocal arrangements on this version proved influential in subsequent versions, including that by the Beatles, one notable feature of the song is its minor-to-major key chord changes on the verses. American label Vee-Jay Records included it on Introducing, the Beatles and Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles. Capitol included it on The Early Beatles, the Beatles version differs to the Shirelles by repeating the second verse instead of the first. So, where the Shirelles conclude with a line about sitting home and crying, a live version was released on Live at the BBC in 1994. The song was issued as a CD single and a single in 1995 in both the UK and the US, the Beatles first in nearly a decade. Both versions have four tracks, making it an EP instead of a regular issue single, the three additional tracks, while from BBC recordings, did not appear on Live at the BBC. Tracks 2 and 4 were later included on On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, the single reached number seven in the UK and number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100. A live music video was released in 1994 to promote the single and it consisted of a combination of the Beatles dancing and still photographs, and was later included on a DVD or Blu-ray that comes with the 2015 release 1+. The single was released on Dunhill 4206 in 1969 and it was their first and most successful release. This version alters the vocal arrangement as performed by the Shirelles. The single hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, the Smith version was used in Quentin Tarantinos Death Proof. The Carpenters recorded a version of Baby Its You in 1970 for their album Close to You, although it wasnt released as a single, it was performed on their TV series, Make Your Own Kind of Music in 1971. It was also featured on the UK compilation, Reflections in 1998 with a remix done by Richard Carpenter in 1991. Baby Its You is an R&B song by Atlanta-based vocal quintet Silk and it charted at #44 on the UK Singles Chart in 1993. Covered the song on the episode of the sixth season of Glee, What the World Needs Now
9. Baby It's You! – Baby Its You. is a jukebox musical written by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott, featuring the music of the 1960s pop group the Shirelles. The show tells the story of Florence Greenberg and Scepter Records, after several tryouts and premieres, the show debuted on Broadway in April 2011, directed by Sheldon Epps. The Shirelles were an American girl group in the early 1960s, the members of the quartet were Shirley Owens, Doris Coley, Beverly Lee, and Addie Micki Harris. Florence Greenberg originally created Tiara Records, the first song recorded and released on the label was I Met Him On a Sunday, by the Shirelles. Just as the record started to break locally, Greenberg sold the company with the Shirelles contract to Decca Records for US$4000, with that money, she started a new label in 1959, called Scepter Records, which became one of the leading record labels in the 60s. Mutrux and Escott had collaborated on the book for the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, Mutrux, who knew about Florence Greenberg, conceived Baby Its You. The Musical, which is part of Mutruxs planned American Pop Anthology series, Million Dollar Quartet was also part of this series. Epps is director of the Pasadena Playhouse, in late 2009, one of the shows scheduled to play there suddenly closed. Id heard several good things about a smaller production of this show that was at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood. I did a little reading about the subject matter — about the Shirelles and Florence Greenberg and all of that — and went over to see it. I was very taken with it and very taken with the idea of developing it for a larger venue and this is not the first jukebox musical Epps had worked on, he directed Play On. with Duke Ellington songs, and Blues in the Night. Florence Greenberg is an average New Jersey housewife, a talent show is held at her daughters school, and a group of African-American girls are preparing to perform. Florences daughter is surprised at their talent, quickly notifying her mother, to accommodate them, she founds Scepter Records. After the success of the Shirelles, the new name of the group, Florence and Scepter Records go on to recording artists like the Kingsmen. ±Denotes that character is a member of the Shirelles, the show premiered at the Coast Playhouse in Los Angeles on July 18,2009, playing until August 30,2009, choreographed by Birgitte Mutrux, directed by Floyd Mutrux, and starring Meeghan Holaway. Other cast members included Erica Ash and Barry Pearl, another production with the same cast played at the Pasadena Playhouse from November 13,2009, to December 13,2009. The show opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre, starring Beth Leavel as Florence, directed by Sheldon Epps, joining Leavel as the Shirelles are Christina Sajous, Erica Ash, Kyra DaCosta, and Crystal Starr Knighton. The production closed on September 4,2011, entertainment Weeklys Clark Collis gave the musical a B– rating, calling it a night out that is easy on the ear
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