The Crystals were 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 19611964 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 The three lead singers for the Crystals were Barbara
Alston, Darlene Love, and Dolores "LaLa" Brooks.
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