45s.com -- Recording Artist Information: The Shirelles

Date Formed	1958
Location	Passaic, New Jersey
Music	R&B group
Charted Pop/Rock Hits	26
Period Active	April 21, 1958 to 1967
Biggest Hits	Soldier Boy; Will You Love Me Tomorrow; Dedicated To The One I Love; Mama Said; Foolish Little Girl.
Music List and Data	Search Music List
Notable Information	The Shirelles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Original Members	Shirley Owens Alston, Doris Kenner, Addie "Micki" Harris.
Other Names	The Poquellos
Other Web Sites	Argus Music Searcher:  The Shirelles page The Shirelles The Shirelles Biography

The Shirelles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.  The following information was obtained from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

The Shirelles were one of the first girl groups of the late Fifties and early Sixties. Formed in 1957, when members Shirley Alston Reeves, Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson and Beverly Lee were high school students in New Jersey, the girls were discovered by a high school friend whose mother, Florence Greenberg, owned a small record label. Their first hit, "I Met Him on a Sunday" (1958), not only established the group, but gave Greenberg the money to launch the legendary Scepter record label. In 1959 they hit again with "Dedicated to the One I Love," followed by " Tonight's the Night" in 1960. Their biggest hit, the Goffin-King classic "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," became the first Number One single by an all-girl group in the rock era when it was released in 1960. Their series of hits climaxed in 1962 with their second American Number One hit, "Soldier Boy."

The group broke up in the late Sixties and re-formed in the Seventies and Eighties for a series of popular revival concerts. Micki Harris died in 1982 and the three surviving members recorded together for the last time on a 1983 Dionne Warwick record singing "Will You Love Me Tomorrow."