Best GIRL GROUP Singles Ever (from RateYourMusic)

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You just cant please everyone can you? Someone will always moan moan moan, so here's your girl groups singles poll you wanted. Now quit moanin' and start votin'!
(and no Country Matters, there's no Sleater-Kinney,Elastica,Electrelane,breeders or slits)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1. The Ronettes - Be My Baby / Tedesco and Pitman (1963)	11
50. The Spice Girls - Wannabe	11
3. The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On / Remove This Doubt (1966)	8
49. Girls Aloud - The Promise (2008)	5
4. The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba / What's So Sweet About Sweet Sixteen (1963)	4
28. The Shangri-Las - He Cried / Dressed in Black (1966)	3
29. The Jaynetts - Sally, Go 'Round the Roses / Sally, Go 'Round the Roses [Instrumental]	3
12. The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack / What Is Love (1964)	3
11. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (2006)	3
10. The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walking in the Sand) / It's Easier to Cry (1964)	3
42. The Shangri-Las - Out in the Streets / The Boy (1965)	3
5. The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love / Put Yourself in My Place (1966)	3
43. Sugababes - Hole in the Head [CD1] (2003)	2
36. The Chiffons - He's So Fine / Oh My Lover (1963)	2
33. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me (2006)	2
30. The Shangri-Las - Give Him a Great Big Kiss / Twist and Shout (1964)	2
2. The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow / Boys (1960)	2
38. The Toys - A Lover's Concerto / This Night (1965)	1
22. The Supremes - Come See About Me / (You're Gone But) Always in My Heart (1964)	1
26. The Supremes - Love Is Here and Now You're Gone / There's No Stopping Us Now (1967)	1
7. The Supremes - Stop! In the Name of Love / I'm in Love Again (1965)	1
6. The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go / He Means the World to Me (1964)	1
9. The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman / So Long Baby (1961)	1
8. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me / Brother Julius (1963)	1
37. The Ronettes - (The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up / Big Red (1964)	0
39. The Exciters - Tell Him / Hard Way to Go (1962)	0
40. The Ronettes - Is This What I Get for Loving You? / Oh, I Love You (1965)	0
41. The Supremes - Up the Ladder to the Roof / Bill, When Are You Coming Back (1970)	0
21. The Crystals - He's a Rebel / I Love You, Eddie (1962)	0
20. The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home) / Git' It (1963)	0
45. The Shirelles - Dedicated to the One I Love / Look a Here Baby (1958)	0
46. Clout - Substitute / When Will You Be Mine (1978)	0
47. The Supremes - Nothing But Heartaches / He Holds His Own (1965)	0
48. The Ad Libs - The Boy From New York City / Kicked Around (1964)	0
13. The Supremes - Baby Love / Ask Any Girl (1964)	0
35. The Supremes - The Happening / All I Know About You (1967)	0
19. The Ronettes - Baby, I Love You / Miss Joan and Mr. Sam (1963)	0
23. The Supremes - I Hear a Symphony / Who Could Ever Doubt My Love (1965)	0
24. Martha and the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack / Third Finger, Left Hand (1967)	0
25. The Ronettes - Do I Love You? / Bebe and Susu (1964)	0
18. The Shangri-Las - I Can Never Go Home Any More / Bull Dog (1965)	0
27. The Ronettes - I Can Hear Music / When I Saw You (1966)	0
17. The Ronettes - (Walking) In the Rain / How Does It Feel? (1964)	0
16. The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You / Everything Is Good About You (1965)	0
15. The Supremes - Reflections / Going Down for the Third Time (1967)	0
31. The Supremes - Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart / He's All I Got (1966)	0
32. The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together / He's My Sunny Boy (1969)	0
14. The Supremes - Love Child / Will This Be the Day (1968)	0
34. The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back / (Love Me) Now (1963)	0
44. The Supremes - Back in My Arms Again / Whisper You Love Me, Boy (1965)	0

― The Girl In Da Corner (Minnie The Minx), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:25 (fifteen years ago)

can't... decide... wish I had 50 votes...

― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago)

"Wannabe" really ranks higher than "Say My Name"?

― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago)

"You Keep Me Hangin On"

― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago)

Spice Girls. Because of the ziga-zig-AH!

― Tuomas, Monday, 5 October 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago)

I find it a bit difficult, as Be My Baby is pretty much my favourite song of all time. (Yeah, I know I said it was Sugar Sugar last week, I flip flop, OK?) If you add all the permutations and copies of BMB over time, it's responsible for about half my record collection.

But, like... Give Him A Great Big Kiss, or Da Doo Ron Ron, or You Can't Hurry Love - there are so many behemoths on this list. And all the little side-lines that are so evocative. My Boyfriend's Back, Please Mr. Postman, Tell Him.

When I'm trying to show people what the Girl Group genre is about, I will usually pick something like "Sweet Talkin' Guy" by the Chiffons, (those harmonies on the breakdown!) which is unfortunately not on the list.

I honestly can't decide. Too much gold here.

― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:36 (fifteen years ago)

"He's So Fine" here; maybe my fave pop song ever.

― a single man owns you (Ioannis), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago)

I've decided on You Keep Me Hangin On.

― chap, Monday, 5 October 2009 14:18 (fifteen years ago)

Voted for Give Him a Great Big Kiss. I love a lot of songs on this list, but if I am true to my heart, Shangri-La's > every other girl group

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

Between "Be My Baby", "(Walking) In The Rain", "You Can't Hurry Love", "Baby Love" and "Leader Of The Pack". Going for the former in the long run.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago)

i think Keep Me Hangin' On is my fave of all these.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

Dis turning lack of youtubes on this thread

You cant beat this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQbcJyVKR0

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

dis turning? DISTURBING

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

if I am true to my heart, Shangri-La's > every other girl group

Heart is wise.

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 5 October 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ONH3hIjO3c

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

Not on the list but one of my favourite songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH_9O3ZCCZI

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_u53G4XLko

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

Leader of the Pack still sounds like it's from the future. On Venus. ~~ON ACID!~~

― DavidM, Monday, 5 October 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FxSM88H-G4

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hCZiTNric

This was one of those "!" moments, they were so way ahead of everyone...

― Mark G, Monday, 5 October 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbbRkHazUIg

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNiYECUd2ZU

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago)

pretty much any ten of these.

― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Monday, 5 October 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

Here's my write-in vote. Wire totally ripped them off. Song starts after 20 seconds of intro credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsoXZMuoUp4&feature=related

― dlp9001, Monday, 5 October 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago)

I used to really like "Wannabe" and now I really really hate it.

― billstevejim, Monday, 5 October 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago)

Where Did Our Love Go gets my vote.

― Good stand-up, Americans (kingkongvsgodzilla), Monday, 5 October 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

i really really 'd love to vote for "when you walk in the room", actually - only that never was a 'girl group single', wasssit?

― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

o well, 'll vote for "you can't hurry love" then.

― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

What were girl groups up to between 1971 and 1995?

― billstevejim, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

ctrl-f "no other"

;_;

― ian, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago)

What were girl groups up to between 1971 and 1995?

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/go-gos/mini-go-gos.gif
http://cool.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/bangles.jpg
http://themusicslut.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wilson_l.jpg

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 5 October 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

not to mention bananarama, en vogue, and oh yeah the biggest-selling girl group of all time:

http://rhythmicsoul.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tlc.jpg

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 5 October 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago)

sally go round the roses 4eva

― clotpoll, Monday, 5 October 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

He Cried/Dressed In Black and it's really not even that close. That's one of the best singles ever.

Neko Case covered Train From Kansas City when I saw her yesterday.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 5 October 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

I always felt like a bit of a Motown heathen, preferring Martha and the Vandellas to the Supremes, but the Shangri-Las? Not even close! (Current favorite: My Love is like a Heat Wave).

― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Monday, 5 October 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago)

It's true. No one is really close to the Shangri-Las.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 5 October 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

Someone needs to tell these folks that there's more to girl groups than Shangri-Las, Supremes, and Ronettes. Most of my favorite girl group singles are missing. "Dressed in Black" is an epic song, but the Pussycats did the best version by far. I think "Egyptian Shumba" wins my vote just because it's an amazingly fun single, despite the fact that it's not terribly representative of most girl group stuff.

― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

"You Keep Me Hangin On"

― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:29 (6 hours ago) Permalink

― surm, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

(ay, surm - where're ya from?)

― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago)

The Shirelles, "Baby, It's You"

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

where'm i from? ny baby, how bout you?

― surm, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago)

i, baby, am from the place where, in the language spoken there, "surm" means "death", literally. (nope, i poop you not) and that's wot made me wonder.

― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

― surm, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago)

finnish?

― surm, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago)

nah, 'stonian.

― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

In Finnish you need to add an "a" to the end of "surm" to get death. But the two languages are pretty close to each other.

― Tuomas, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

Actually, "surma" in Finnish would be "killing" and not "death", because it's a death caused by someone, not just a random death.

― Tuomas, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

thanx, Tuomas.
and THAT's how un-girl-group-single wer'e gonna get here.
sorry everyone! :)

and now i'd like to change my vote to "and then he kissed me"!

― t**t, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

I can't quite believe that I am the first person who is thinking:

"wtf! No He Hit Me (and It Felt Like A Kiss)?" I mean, it was definitely a single - how is it not in here?

In its absence, I'll plump for "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" , but would have rather have plumped for "Past, Present and Future" if I could have done.

― Guilty_Boksen, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe people at RYM weren't eager to vote for that tune because of, you know, the rather nasty implications of the title.

― Tuomas, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

okay I'd never actually heard "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)" before and WOW this is about a million times creepier and more subversive than the shit I was listening to in high school

― The Book of Outhere (HI DERE), Monday, 5 October 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

thinking more about the list's '70s-'80s gap. do people just not think of those as girl groups? more that came to mind: pointer sisters, sister sledge, labelle. must be others.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 5 October 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Baccara_-_Yes_Sir_I_Can_Boogie_(1994).jpg

― meisenfek, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

""Dressed in Black" is an epic song, but the Pussycats did the best version by far."

I wouldn't go that far, but what's the other side of that single?

― Alex in SF, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago)

Be My Baby

― one boob is free with one (daavid), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

Another for 'You Keep Me Hangin' On', ahead of 'Please Mr Postman', 'Be My Baby', 'My World Is Empty Without You' and 'Come See About Me'. So many great singles here, but The Supremes just rule.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

This has also vanished off New Answers!

― Mark G, Monday, 5 October 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

yeah all polls got kicked off new answers by mods due to complaints. Better watch you don't get yellow carded.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 5 October 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

"be my baby" is out of this world. my pick for #1 song ever created.

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 5 October 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

How could it be anything but "Be My Baby" or "Remember (Walking in the Sand"?

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 04:09 (fifteen years ago)

I some of these are "girl bands" more than "girl groups". May be nitpicking, but it's a matter of genre.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 10:26 (fifteen years ago)

There is no such genre as "girl band". Seriously.

― ...and the wizard blew his horn (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 10:26 (fifteen years ago)

donttell simon cowell

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

PEANUT DUCK

― Snop Snitchin, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

XX-post Girls bands are part of the "boy and girl band" genre.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

as opposed to the "elephants and meerkats" genre.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

yes

― The Girl In Da Corner (Minnie The Minx), Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 18 October 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

22. The Supremes - Come See About Me / (You're Gone But) Always in My Heart (1964)

My vote! ^

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, 18 October 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

I still haven't been able to choose. Argh.

― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago)

I've got it down to Be My Baby vs. You Can't Hurry Love. I think.

― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:21 (fifteen years ago)

You Can't Hurry Love has better lyrics, and that BEAT, but really - it's more Motown than Girl Group specifically.

Besides, Be My Baby is perhaps one of the best songs ever recorded. It's not about the lyrics, it's about the SOUND, about the tone and quality of Ronnie's voice, about the whole gorgeous fuzz of it - and oh yeah, that drumbeat.

― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago)

This is too difficult.

'Dedicated to the one I love' is being slept on here, I think. I'm torn between 'Give him a great big kiss' and 'He's so fine'.

― I thought I could make it work because you look a bit like a man (aldo), Monday, 19 October 2009 12:22 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 19 October 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Girls Aloud I can accept, but all those votes for "Wannabe"=madness. It's probably the worst Spice Girls single even.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 19 October 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago)

No, I'd say it's one of their best, but still nowhere near "Be My Baby" (or many others no the list), so yeah madness.

― one boob is free with one (daavid), Monday, 19 October 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

3 votes for "Out in the Streets" delete ILM.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, 19 October 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago)

lol as if wannabe is in the same league as be my baby (or a lot of these)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 19 October 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

some classic singles didn't even get a vote

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago)

3 votes for "Out in the Streets" delete ILM.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, October 19, 2009 6:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

you mean cos that's too few, right?

― een, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

ewww Wannabe

it was great at the time but come on

― surm, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

Wow! I know that you guys are contrarian and all, but FUCK THIS BULLSHIT UP IN HERE!

― The Perfect Weapon 2, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:29 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I call bullshit on this. I think there was either 1) a lot of "irony" voting to spoil the ballot or else 2) kids today have a ten second memory and haven't actually heard most of these tunes. In which case, SERIOUSLY, shame on them.

― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago)

so much heartbreak in the zeroes :'( .

― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:25 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I wish I had about 20 socks to vote for them all.

― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:25 (fifteen years ago)

Can we do this again with some kind of single transferable vote system? I'm sure Be My Baby would still win this (and no complaints about that), but it might mean that some of those zero votes may get a look in for the top 5.

Or maybe do a best of each band and then do a final poll of the winners of each of them, cos at least the Shangri Las vote wouldn't be split, as I think is the case here.

Seriously, give me a compilation of those bottom 26 and I'd be in heaven.

― Guilty_Boksen, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago)

2) kids today have a ten second memory and haven't actually heard most of these tunes.

sounds about right

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago)

Then again, why should they know stuff from 40 or 50 years before they were even born? It's like their grandparents' music, I guess. I mean, even the Spice Girls are ancient history to the yoot of today.

― mathematics and Rube Goldberg contraptions (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago)

I doubt there's many "kids" on ILM. But there are posters who hate old music and refuse to listen to it.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago)

"Kids" shouldn't be listening to old music anyway

― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

you mean you don't want kids listening to your music which spoils it for you? ;)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago)

What?

― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

"Wannabe"?? I'd never thought ILM-ers were this shallow :(

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago)

ILM seriously lacks testosterone.

― Moka, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago)

And I thought it was only the English who were masters of subtle irony.

― Strawberry Letter 22 (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure the Spice Girls are British.

― Moka, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8_jqcKSFZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXQ5GQ6_Hk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thI9blMts0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjhChF8lEks

― meisenfek, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

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