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![Watch Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) [Lyric Video] music video by The Shangri-Las](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video112/v4/5d/70/40/5d70401f-06b9-dcd2-3bf4-77e4ded2443e/21UM1IM21604.crop.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) [Lyric Video] music video by The Shangri-Las")
About The Shangri-Las
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Formed
1963
Genre
Pop
The Shangri-Las stood out from other ’60s girl groups with a more streetwise, heightened take on teen melodrama. They were actual teens, too, forming the group in Queens, New York in 1963. Fronted primarily by Mary Weiss and guided by atmosphere-rich producer George “Shadow” Morton, the band established their snappy portrayal of romantic anguish—complete with Greek-chorus whispers—on 1964’s “Remember (Walkin’ In the Sand)” and its chart-topping follow-up “Leader of the Pack.” A theatrical tale of motorcycle tragedy, the latter stands as the commercial peak of a run of hits that spanned just two years. Subsequent singles began stalling by late 1966, and the band split in 1968. Apart from a brief live reunion a decade later and Weiss’s 2007 solo album with The Reigning Sound, The Shangri-Las live on as an evergreen emblem of forthright cool whose sound has been absorbed into indie acts as varied as Sonic Youth and The Black Lips.
Members of The Shangri-Las include, or have included, Mary Weiss and Betty Weiss.
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