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The Crystals are a New York City singing group and are considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s. Their 1961—1964 chart hits — including “Uptown”, “He’s A Rebel”, “Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)” and “Then He Kissed Me” — featured three successive female lead singers and were all produced by Phil Spector. In the early 1960s, Barbara Alston, Mary Thomas, Dolores “Dee Dee” Kenniebrew, Myrna Girard and Patricia “Patsy” Wright formed The Crystals through the help of Benny Wells, Barbara’s uncle. Soon, the quintet signed with Phil Spector’s label Philles Records. By default, Spector chose Alston to be the group’s lead singer, which made her uncomfortable since she had a fear of singing in front of audiences. The touchy subject matter of the next single — 1962’s “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)” (written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and sung by Alston) — resulted in limited airplay, never reaching Billboard’s Hot 100. The track enjoys a cult following. Soon after “He Hit Me” flopped, Phil Spector began recording singer Darlene Love and her backing group The Blossoms under the name “The Crystals”. Legend has it that the real Crystals were not able to travel from New York to Los Angeles fast enough to suit the LA-based Spector, who wanted to quickly record writer Gene Pitney’s “He’s a Rebel” before anyone else could release a version. The Crystals were unavailable, but Love and the Blossoms were also based in LA, so

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