The 1960s girl group The Angels began in New Jersey as The Starlets and consisted of sisters Barbara and Phyllis Allbut, Bernadette Carroll and Linda Malzone. After some minor regional hit records, they got gigs doing back-up work on studio recordings. They went through some personnel changes--Malzone left and was replaced by Linda Jansen--and at ...
Members have included Peggy Santiglia, Phyllis Allbut, Barbara Allbut, Linda Janssen, Linda Malzone, Toni Mason, Debra Swisher, Bernadette Carroll.
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Their 1963 #1 hit, "My Boyfriend's Back", came about when a staff writer for April Blackwood Music returned to his old high school in New York, which he had heard was being torn down, for a last look. When he got there he saw a young teenage girl screaming at a rather disreputable-looking teenage boy, "My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be in trouble. You've been spreading lies about me all over school and when he gets ahold of you, you're gonna be sorry you were ever born!" He immediately returned to the office, got ahold of two other songwriters and had the song finished in just a few hours.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
9/11
2002
TV Movie documentary performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
The '60s
1999
TV Movie performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
Inventing the Abbotts
1997
performer: "Glory of Love"
Matinee
1993
performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
Northern Exposure
1991
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Quantum Leap
1990
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Clean and Sober
1988
performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound
1983
TV Movie documentary performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
Permanent Vacation
1980
performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
More American Graffiti
1979
performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
The Wanderers
1979
performer: "My Boyfriend's Back"
Scorpio Rising
1965
Short performer: "My Boyfriend's Back" - uncredited
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