The Paris Sisters performing “What Am I To Do?“, released originally in 1962.
The Paris Sisters were Albeth, Priscilla, and Sherrell Paris, a soft-voiced sister trio from San Francisco, California. The group was formed in the early ’50s due to the aspirations of their opera singing mother. Mrs. Paris had quit a career at San Francisco Milano Opera Company to raise the three girls as singers, training them around the family piano.
When another earlier vintage trio, The Andrew Sisters, came to San Francisco to perform, Mom had the girls all dressed alike and sitting in front, mouthing the words to their songs for the full three weeks of their engagement. Unable to not notice, The Andrew Sisters put the girls on stage to perform.
The three pre-teen sisters preceded to wow the audience with their version of the Andrew Sisters’ “Rum and Coca Cola.“ An MCA Records agent was in the audience and soon had them on the road playing USO shows and fairs along the California coast.
By 1959, the sisters had met Jess Rand who brought them to Imperial Records where they recorded two singles that went unnoticed. In 1961 Lester Sill saw the sisters and acquired their contract from Rand. Sill then brought a young Phil Spector from New York to produce the girls.
Though the Paris Sisters had always sung three-part-harmony and rarely featured a lead, Spector saw a similarity between Priscilla’s voice and Annette Kleinbard of the Teddy Bears. Spector envisioned a new Teddy Bear Style.
Spector brought the group to New York and had them stay at his New York apartment while he moved across the street to the Park Plaza. In typical Spector fashion he woke them in the wee hours and took them through Central Park in a horse drawn carriage to rehearse songs.
They appeared in a British rock and roll movie produced by Richard Lester (who later did the Beatles films) titled Ring-A-Ding Rhythm and toured the U.S. with Dion and the Belmonts and the Marvelettes, among others. In 1964, the Paris Sisters recorded a rock-a-ballad version of Bobby Darin’s “Dream Lover“ that peaked at number ninety-one.
Three albums and five singles in 1966 and 1967 failed, and by the early 70s the group disbanded. Sherrell formed a band called Sherrell Paris and the New People that toured until the late 70s. Sherrell remarried for the second time and became an executive assistant on Bob Barker’s TV show, The Price Is Right. Albeth went into independent TV production with her husband.
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