Crayons to Perfume is on Vacation!

Crayons to Perfume is on a much needed vacation! It gives you plenty of time to check out our past shows and watch these great video clips (hints of what's to come next!!)

Crayons to Perfume! goes Downtown!! 7pm

The girls are going Downtown where all the lights are bright, tonight on Crayons to Perfume! It'll make you feel alright ... now! 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. Take this gentle hand to guide you along...

The Sin-Ti-Lating sirens of Italian 60's Soundtracks on Crayons to Perfume! at 7 tonite

Everyone give thanks for those slinky, silky voices of Italian 60's soundtracks! These Sin-Sational soundtrack ladies ooh and ah their way through jazzy little numbers - and you can hear them all tonight at 7 on Crayons to Perfume! so listen here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/CE

International Decca Girls at 7pm on Crayons to Perfume!

Today, as part of a series of shows dedicated to the Darlings of Decca, it's International Girls with some girl group sounds, garage-y numbers & quirky weirdness featuring schlager swingers, ye ye yummies, and beat babes from all over the world. If you missed the first two segments, check out the Crayons to Perfume! archive and tune in here at 7pm for International Decca Darlings.

Joe Belock special Guest Set - Crayons to Perfume!

WFMU DJ Joe Belock of Three Chord Monte is djgirlgroupgirl's special guest today on Crayons to Perfume! Joe and I had a great time hanging out in Orlando at Hidden Volume's Field Trip South (pictured above, day two ... little sleep, lots of dancing and beer) where Joe told me about some of his fave girls - including one he first heard right here on Ichiban. Tune in today to hear Joe's girls, plus the girls singing about Joe! 7pm Ichiban!

Parlophone Princesses on Crayons to Perfume!

Beat Girls galore, groovy groups with gorgeous girls and even more Girls Girls Girls - at 7pm tonight on Crayons to Perfume! The Princesses of Parlophone - Cilla Black, Liza Strike, Ris Chantelle, Beverly Martyn, Linda Millington, Carol Friday, Julie Driscoll and many more greats and you can hear them all, right here!

Here's a little sneak peek of what's to come, this is Carol Friday and the San Remo Four on Beat Club singing Everyone I Know

Crayons to Perfume! Girl of the Week is Miss Kitty du Mont!

We're just KITTENS over the a-meow-sing crime fighting pussycat Miss Kitty du Mont - you may remember her as the star of the World Of Tile website! Today we pay hommage to Kitty who saves the lives of countless felines by day, and saves the universe at night (and I hear on Sundays and Mondays too!) - so todays Crayons To Perfume! is filled with every feline imaginable!

Join us here now!

Here's the complete archive to all our shows!

Donna Loren Interiew on Crayons to Perfume! Today!

It's a very special Crayons to Perfume! tonight at 7pm Eastern, 4 Pacific. Join me, as I interview Donna Loren as she tells us about her musical and acting career in the 60's, including some bombshell dropping moments! You can hear it all here! or use Tune in Radio and don't forget to find me on facebook! or Twitter @crayontoperfume

Girl Group Royalty on Crayons to Perfume! 7pm

The Royalettes are our girls of the week, as the girls hold court on Crayons to Perfume! Wednesday at 7pm Eastern or 4 Pacific. Tune in right here to pay homage!

Crayons To Perfume's Girls of the Week are the Unknown Girls of Arc Records, Canada!

The Arc Sound Company formed in Toronto, Canada in 1958 - headquartered in Scarborough, Ontario in the community of Agincourt. The record label started off ushering in the musical careers of such Canadian luminaries as Anne Murry and Catherine McKinnon (amongst others) but soon turned to churning out Sound-A-Like styled records using local talent to "emulate" current hit records of the day. Some of the records on Arc were credited to the groups who recorded them, but there are also many who used studio musicians from the companies who used Arc's pressing plant. So sadly, many artists, and almost all the women on these records went uncredited. Today, we pay homage to the Unknown Girls of Arc Records, as well as the ladies of Hit Records from Nashville and London, England's Embassy Records - as well as a few surprises!

The Unknown Girls of Arc Records on Crayons to Perfume 11 can be found here and you can find the show archive here. Don't forget check WFMU's rock'n'soul Ichiban each Monday morning for a brand new show, and check out stream filled with all the best music!

Playlist:
Mama Didn't Lie
Tomorrow
Love Live Love
Girl Don't Come
How Does That Grab You?
Shout
Alpha Zoe & The Group: You Beat Me To The Punch
Kathy Taylor: I Can't Stay Mad At You
The Flower Sisters: People Say
The Dacrons: Don't Hang Up
Peggy Gaines: Ride
Connie & Clara: I Will Follow Him
The Gleams: He's A Rebel
Jean Campbell: Robot Man
Marylin Lee: Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Joan Baxter & The Beatmen: Baby Love
The Startlings: Baby I Love You
Ripple Blast Singers & Band: Stone Soul Picnic
Ripple Blast Singers & Band: House That Jack Built
Watch Out
I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy

Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Crayons to Perfume!

Today at 7 on Crayons to Perfume! It's the 4th in the Decca Darlings series with an hour of Goldie & The Gingerbreads! The Gingerbreads were one of the very first all-girl bands signed to a major label in the 60's which took them from the US to the UK and back again with records not only for Decca, but Fontana, Immediate and Atco too. We'll hear pre-Gingerbreads and also solo records from the girls as well. Tune in right here, and check out the Gingerbreads in action (singing a song they came to hate)!!

more Summer Girls! Crayons to Perfume!

Tonight on Ichiban, it's the last of the Summer Girls for ... well...the summer! An hour of all-girl odes to our favorite season on Crayons to Perfume! with your host djgirlgroupgirl. You'll find surfing girls, death disc darlings and beach movie soundtrack babes like Raquel Welch and her can't miss Ready To Groove from a Swingin' Summer - and to keep you from searching for the footage - check it out below!!

Columbia Cuties!

It's an hour of the ladies of Columbia Records this evening on Crayons to Perfume! WFMU's weekly girl group show featuring an hour of girl groups and female fronted 60's sounds every Wednesday at 7pm.  Your host, djgirlgroupgirl has an eclectic mixture from some of the most outstanding 45's on Columbia from the mid-60's - everything from girl groups to girl garage, soul, beat, famous personalities and even a good novelty song! One of the featured groups are The What Four, an all-girl rock'n'roll outfit who recorded two singles for Columbia in 1966, including one of the tuffest girl garage singles ever to grace black shellac - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy! Check out the What Four story below, and tune into Crayons to Perfume! this evening ... only on Rock'n'Soul Ichiban.

Crayons To Perfume's Girl of the Week is Christine Pilzer and the fabulous Femmes de Francais!

Christine Pilzer was the ultimate ye-ye girl! A disc jockey, a mod, a teenager in France who loved just being a teenager! Sneaking out from her parents, hanging with her gang, loving pop music, fashion and comics. She was also an illustrator for comic books! But the one thing she had not done was make a record - and so she did!

Christine is one of the few ye-ye girls who was able to take a light hearted approach to her two EP musical career, and be in control of it - and it's why she still enjoys the memories. See her perform, looking almost exactly as she did in the 60's in her bowl haircut with petite figure and mod dress - with Les Terribles in 2006!






Now listen to a full hour of Crayons To Perfume 16 - French girls, Canadian Girls and other girls who sang in French!

Christine Pilzer: Mon P'tit Homme Spatial
Christine Pilzer:Ils pataugent
Christine Pilzer:Ah-Hem-Ho-Uh-Err
Violaine: Dam dou ah
Violaine: J'ai des Problèmes Décidément
Cleo: Et moi, et toi, et soie
Cleo & Cedric: Le Jour Se Lèvera Sur Tout Ça
Karine: Une Autre Autoroute
Les Intrigantes - Mets Chinois
Michelle Richard - Les Boites A Gogo
Claire Lepage - Bam Bam Bam
Karo - dans le ventre d'une enorme baleine
Ariane et les 20/10 Louie, Reviens Chez Toi
Petula Clark: L'Agent Secret
RIA BARTOK: C'est Trop Tot
Gillian Hills: Tut Tut Tut Tut
Charlotte Leslie: Les filles c'est fait pour fair l'amour
Annie Phillipe: C’est La Mode
Cosette: Idealization
Elizabeth: Je Suis Sublime
Brigitte Bardot: Contact
Clothilde: La Chanson Bête Et Méchante
Background: Saint Tropez

Crayons to Perfume! with Miriam Linna and Real Nitty Gritty Tania!

Starting off this year with a bang (well, really a jangle!) Crayons to Perfume's first show for 2016 is really up tight and outta site featuring our Girl of the Week: Miriam Linna and her latest LP on Norton Records Down Today - AND - we also have a special guest DJ, Ichiban's own Real Nitty Gritty Tania who spins a half hour of her favorite girl groups, 60's female artists and - even some modern girls in the garage! Tune in at 7 on Wednesday - http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/CE

Ernie Djohan on Crayons to Perfume! 7 Eastern, 4 Pacific

It's a repeat of our 2nd Crayons to Perfume! tonight featuring Ernie Djohan, breathy girls, twisty girls and of course girls girls girls!

Check it out: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/CE

Doo Wop Dames on Crayons to Perfume!

Crayons to Perfume! is reaching a little farther back than usual...back to the 50's and the women who pioneered rhythm & blues and rock'n'roll in Doo Wop groups, specifically in groups with male members (next time around we'll have all girl doo woppers!). Patty & The Emblems are our girl and group of the week, with Patty Russell - considered a one hit wonder for the fantastic soul number Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl. Patty left the music world after the Emblems, but the men in her band went on to have life long careers in music. We also feature Lillian Leach of the Mellows who paved the way for the ladies of the girl group era by being one of the first women to join an all male doo wop group.


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Crayons To Perfume Girls of the Week: Nichole and Monique of Les Surfs - the Madagascar Movers!

Les Surfs were a family group - brothers and sisters in the Rabaraona family from Madagascar. Nichole and Monique were the only girls in the group, and began their carriers at a very young age - just 7 and 8 years old when they won a television singing contest. This led them on a tour of Madagascar.
In 1963, the group, now named Les Surfs played on French television, and they became very popular covering English pop songs in French. As they toured, they went to Spain and Italy - again, recording popular American (mainly) songs in other languages. The group was tight and classy, wearing the latest fashions and appealing to people of all ages.
By the late 60's the Rabaraona family were getting married and having children, so they decided to end the band. Eventually most of the family emegrated to Canada.

Les Surfs left behind a great string of  hits -  including this EP, with 'Shoop shoop va l'embrasser', fab version of  'It's In His Kiss'.



Crayons to Perfume is coming soon to WFMU's Ichiban Soul, hosted by Glynis Ward, DJ girlgroupgirl

Babydoll Warriors on Crayons to Perfume!

Today on Crayons to Perfume! It's San Diego's girl group with a few guys in it too!! The Babydoll Warriors - that golden group with the 50's/60's sound with a little bit of 80's movie schlock thrown in for good measure. Lead singer Julia Hall McMahon and saxophonist/songwriter Emily Connell are in the studio with me today - we'll play some songs from their new EP - and they'll also play the dj with songs that inspire their group, themselves, their performances. Listen to win one of two Babydoll Warrior prizes!! 8pm

Liberty Ladies! Crayons to Perfume!

Liberty was known more for their loungy, jazzy ladies like Julie London or Vikki Carr than for girl groups and soulful singers - so today's show was especially challenging to put together, but here it is! An hour of girl groups like Henrietta & The Hair Dooz, The Pandoras and the Shannons along with female singers from the 60's such as Kiki Dee, Cathy Rich, Betty Turner, Jackie De Shannon and so many more - tune in, 7pm tonite Crayons to Perfume! for Liberty Ladies! and now, check out this word from our sponsor....