The Girlfriends were an American girl group

Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

 who scored one hit in the United States in 1964, "My One and Only Jimmy Boy".

The group was founded as a result of the splintering of the Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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-based studio group

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

 The Blossoms

The Blossoms

The Blossoms were a backing group from California. They had a recording career in their own right and were to the American West Coast what The Sweet Inspirations were to the East Coast and The Andantes were for Motown.-Early years:...

. The four members of the Blossoms - Gloria Jones, Nanette Jackson, Fanita James, and Darlene Wright

Darlene Love

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 - first sang together in 1957. In 1964, Phil Spector

Phil Spector

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 created the group Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans with James and Wright; Jones and Jackson then formed their own group, The Girlfriends, with Carolyn Willis (formerly of The Ikettes

The Ikettes

The Ikettes were a trio of female backing vocalists for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a prominent American rhythm and blues group from the 1960s.-Career:...

). They released one single, "My One and Only Jimmy Boy", on Colpix Records

Colpix Records

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 in 1963, produced by David Gates

David Gates

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. The record peaked at #49 in 1964. The Girlfriends never released another record. Willis later joined Honey Cone

Honey Cone

Honey Cone was an American R&B and soul all girl vocal group, who are best remembered for their Billboard #1 hit single, "Want Ads". They were the premier female group for Hot Wax Records, operated by Holland–Dozier–Holland after they had departed from Motown Records.-Career:Honey Cone comprised...

 and both she and Jones sang in one of the nostalgia-circuit groups performing as The Shirelles

The Shirelles

The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...

in the 1990s.