the Paris Sisters
{{Short description|1960s American girl group}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist
|name = The Paris Sisters
|background = group_or_band
|image = The Paris Sisters at the 1966 Grammy Awards.jpg
|caption = The Paris Sisters at the 8th Annual Grammy Awards, 1966
|origin = San Francisco, California, United States
|genre = Pop
|years_active = 1954–1968
|label = Decca
Imperial
Gregmark
MGM
Mercury
Reprise
Capitol
Sidewalk
|past_members = Priscilla Paris
Albeth Paris
Sherrell Paris
}}
The Paris Sisters were a 1960s American girl group from San Francisco, best known for their work with record producer Phil Spector.
Career
The group consisted of lead singer Priscilla Paris (January 4, 1945 – March 5, 2004), her older sister Albeth Carole Paris, and their middle sister Sherrell Paris.{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=1904}} They reached the peak of their success in October 1961 with the hit single "I Love How You Love Me", which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart,{{cite book|first=Barbara|last=O'Dair|year=1997|title= The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock: Trouble Girls|edition=1st|publisher=Random House|location=New York|isbn=0-679-76874-2|page=115}} and sold over one million copies.{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Betrock|year=1982|title=Girl Groups The Story of a Sound|edition=1st|publisher=Delilah Books|location=New York|isbn=0-933328-25-7|page=29}} Some of the group's other hit songs include the US Top 40 single "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" (March 1962, No. 34), "All Through The Night" (1961),Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 7th edn, 2000. "Be My Boy" (No. 56), "Let Me Be The One" (No. 87), and "Dream Lover" (No. 91).{{cite book|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|year=2003|title=Top Pop Singles 1955-2002|edition=10th|publisher=Record Research Inc.|location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin|isbn=0-89820-155-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbur/page/534 534]|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whitbur/page/534}}
The Paris Sisters appeared in the 1962 British rock film It's Trad, Dad! (released in the U.S. as Ring-a-Ding Rhythm) directed by Richard Lester.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbffacd04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627115254/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbffacd04|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 27, 2018|title=Paris Sisters|website=2.bfi.org.uk|access-date=3 October 2021}} In the film, they performed the Spector-produced song "What Am I to Do?"{{Cite web|url=https://ringostrack.com/en/movie/its-trad-dad/26352|title=It's Trad, Dad! (1962) Soundtrack|website=Ringostrack.com|access-date=3 October 2021}} Also early in the 1960s, the Paris Sisters sang the jingle for Diet Rite soda.
Sherrell Paris later served as a production assistant on The Price Is Right and as host Bob Barker's personal assistant until she was released in 2000.{{cite web|last=Adams |first=Greg |url=http://musicweird.blogspot.com/2014/04/music-weird-interviews-sherrell-paris.html |title=Music Weird: Music Weird interviews Sherrell Paris of the Paris Sisters |website=Musicweird.blogspot.com |date=2014-04-02 |access-date=2016-07-31}}
Priscilla Paris died on March 5, 2004, from injuries suffered in a fall at her home in Pays de la Loire, France.{{cite book|last=III|first=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2004: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anvGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274|date=24 October 2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5209-5|page=274}} She was 59.{{cite web|author=Jason Ankeny |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-paris-sisters-mn0000408994/biography |title=The Paris Sisters | Biography & History |website=AllMusic |date=2004-03-05 |access-date=2016-07-31}}
Albeth Paris died in Palm Springs, California, on December 5, 2014. She was 79.{{Cite news|url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/entertainment/2014/12/29/notable-coachella-valley-entertainer-deaths/21023633/|title=Mickey Rooney, radio stars among valley celebrity deaths|first=Bruce|last=Fessier|newspaper=The Desert Sun|access-date=3 October 2021}}
Discography
=Albums=
- Sing From the Glass House, Unifilms Records (1966)
- Golden Hits of The Paris Sisters, Sidewalk Records (1967)
- Sing Everything Under The Sun, Reprise Records (1967)
- The Best of The Paris Sisters, Curb Records (2004)
- The Complete Phil Spector Sessions, Varèse Sarabande (2006)
- Always Heavenly, Ace Records (2016)
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center; |
| rowspan="2"|Year
!rowspan="2"|Title !colspan="2"|Peak chart !rowspan="2"|Record Label !rowspan="2"|B-side !rowspan="2"|Album |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
!align=centre| US !align=centre| US |
| rowspan="1"| 1954
|align=left| "Ooh La La" | — | — |rowspan="6"| Decca |rowspan="1"| "Whose Arms Are You Missing" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="3"| 1955
|align=left| "Huckleberry Pie" | — | — |rowspan="1"| "Baby, Honey, Baby" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "The "Know-How""
| — | — |rowspan="1"| "I Wanna" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "Lover Boy"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| "Oh Yes, You Do" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="2"| 1956
|align=left| "I Love You Dear (Year-Round Love)" | — | — |rowspan="1"| "Mistaken" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "Daughter, Daughter!"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| "So Much - So Very Much" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="1"| 1957
|align=left| "(Don't Stop, Don't Stop) Tell Me More" | — | — |rowspan="2"| Imperial |rowspan="1"| "Old Enough to Cry" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="2"| 1958
|align=left| "Someday" | — | — |rowspan="1"| "My Original Love" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "Don't Tell Anybody"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| Decca |rowspan="1"| "Mind Reader" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="2"| 1961
|align=left| "Be My Boy" | 56 | — |rowspan="5"| Gregmark |rowspan="1"| "I'll Be Crying Tomorrow" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "I Love How You Love Me"
| 5 | — |rowspan="1"| "All Through the Night" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="3"| 1962
|align=left| "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" | 34 | 7 |rowspan="1"| "A Lonely Girl's Prayer" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "Let Me Be the One"{{cite magazine | title=Spotlight Singles of the Week | magazine = Billboard | publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. | issn=0006-2510 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IhYEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Let+Me+Be+the+One%22&pg=PA31 | language=en | access-date=2025-03-21 | page=31|date=28 April 1962}}
| 87 | — |rowspan="1"| "What Am I to Do" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "Yes - I Love You"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| "Once Upon a While Ago" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="2"| 1964
|align=left| "Dream Lover" | 91 | — |rowspan="1"| MGM |rowspan="1"| "Lonely Girl" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "When I Fall in Love"
| — | — |rowspan="2"| Mercury |rowspan="1"| "Once Upon a Time" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="1"| 1965
|align=left| "Why Do I Take It From You" | — | — |rowspan="1"| "Always Waitin'" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="3"| 1966
|align=left| "Sincerely" | — | — |rowspan="4"| Reprise |rowspan="1"| "Too Good to Be True" |rowspan="2"| The Paris Sisters Sing Everything Under the Sun!!! |
| align=left| "I'm Me"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| "You" |
| align=left| "My Good Friend"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| "It's My Party" |rowspan="1"| |
| rowspan="1"| 1967
|align=left| "Some of Your Lovin'" | — | — |rowspan="1"| "Long After Tonight Is All Over" |rowspan="1"| The Paris Sisters Sing Everything Under the Sun!!! |
| rowspan="2"| 1968
|align=left| "Greener Days" | — | — |rowspan="1"| Capitol |rowspan="1"| "Golden Days" |rowspan="1"| |
| align=left| "The Ugliest Girl in Town"
| — | — |rowspan="1"| GNP Crescendo |rowspan="1"| "Stand Naked Clown" |rowspan="1"| |
References
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External links
- [http://www.spectropop.com/ParisSisters/index.htm Paris Sisters biography I]
- [http://www.history-of-rock.com/paris_sisters.htm Paris Sisters biography II]
- [http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/parissisters/index.html Fanpage Tribute to Priscilla, Sherell & Albeth]
- [http://www.spectropop.com/paris/sistersdiscog.html Complete Paris Sisters discography] and [http://www.spectropop.com/ParisSisters/ interview]
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Category:American vocal groups
Category:American pop music groups
Category:Family musical groups
Category:1954 establishments in California
Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1968
Category:Musical groups from San Francisco
Category:Imperial Records artists
Category:Mercury Records artists