Early Girls, Vol. 1: Popsicles and Icicles (1996)

About this title: While the second volume of the Early Girls series is heavier on chart hits, the first collection offers more choice rarities (which, truth be told, is the real value in retrospectives of this kind). A handful of these 28 cuts are overly cloying (Earl-Jean's "I'm into Something Good" and Little Peggy March's "I Wish I Were a Princess" are almost sickeningly sweet), but the good far outweighs the bad -- alongside familiar singles like Shirley Ellis' "The Name Game" and the Shirelles' "Dedicated to the One I Love" are forgotten classics like Toni Fisher's amazing "West of the Wall" (an echo ... read more

Tracks:

1. Do Wah Diddy Diddy [Barry/Greenwich]
2. You're No Good [Ballard]
3. The Name Game [Chase/Ellis]
4. Chains [Goffin/King]
5. It Might as Well Rain Until September [Goffin/King]
6. I'm into Something Good [Goffin/King]
7. I Can't Stay Mad at You [Goffin/King]
8. I Wish I Were a Princess [Weiss/Peretti/Creat]
9. I've Told Ev'ry Little Star [Hammerstein/Kern]
10. Triangle [Grant]
11. West of the Wall [Lieberman/Holden/Le]
12. Pink Shoelaces [Grant]
13. Music! Music! Music! [Weiss/Baum]
14. Dear Baby [Stevens]
15. Whenever a Teenager Cries [Maresca]
16. Popsicles and Icicles [Gates]
17. Wonderful Summer [Garfield/Botkin]
18. I Love How You Love Me [Mann/Kolber]
19. Dark Moon [Miller]
20. You [Goddard/Vannata]
21. 'Til [Sigman/Danvers/Buis]
22. The Great Pretender [Ram]
23. Angel Baby [Hamlin]
24. Eddie, My Love [Davis/Collins/Ling]
25. He's Gone [Barrett/Smith]
26. Dedicated to the One I Love [Pauling/Bass]
27. Son-In-Law [Burgess/Fuller]
28. Easier Said Than Done [Linton/Huff]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.