Who was the first female or totally female group to have a number one hit, and what was the eyar and song? This isn’t a trivia question, 'cause I don’t know the ansmwer.
The first female rock group to have a #1 written and performed by the group were the Go-Gos with “My Lips are Sealed.”
If you mean singers only, then you’d have to go back well before rock 'n roll. I’m sure there were #1 hits in the 30s performed by women.
Carole King never had a number one hit? Or Carly Simon?
Actually, the question was referring to rock and roll, and I thought I’d heard somewhere that it was one of those girl groups of the early 1960s. Not the Supremes, though. . . I think the Ronnettes, but I can’t find a mention of it in any online biogrpahy of them.
Aw man! How many words can I possibly misspell in two posts?
The Go-Go’s did not reach #1 with “Our Lips…”. It hit #20. Carole King had a #1 with “It’s Too Late” in 1971. Carly Simon had a #1 with “You’re So Vain” in 1972. The majority of 60’s girl groups did not write anything. Usually they performed songs written by teams (the Brill Building writers which included Carole King, for example). Even solo artists such as Dionne Warwick and Connie Francis, who had big hits, did not write their own music.
Trumpy303
“It’s so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain…”
Carole King was a solo artist, not a group. I said “group.” Though I was wrong about #1 – they had the first #1 album, not a single.
According to THE ROCK ENCYCLOPEDIA, the Andrews Sisters had a #1 hit in 1950 with “I Can Dream, can’t I?” Of course, they didn’t write they songs and it certainly wasn’t rock.
If we consider rock to begin with “Rock Around the Clock,” the first woman with a number one was Kay Starr with “Rock and Roll Waltz” in 1956. I doubt she write that, either. Gogi Grant had six weeks on the charts in 56 with “Wayward Wind.” Next came Debbie Reynolds with “Tammy” (1957), Connie Francis with “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool” and “My Heart Has a Mind of its Own” (1960), Brenda Lee with “I’m Sorry” (1960). Finally, in 1961, the Shirelles got to #1 with “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” – the first girl group and, since Carole King wrote the song, the first written and performed by women.