Girl Groups -- Why We Should Remember them [9min]

In the 50's there was rock and roll and Elvis -- then in the mid sixties came the Beatles and Bob Dylan -- but between the two there was a phenomenon that can still set the feet a tapping -- the girl groups -- The Cinderellas, The Shangri-Las, The Marvelettes, The Fabulettes and The Chiffons. A box set of CDs called One Kiss Can Lead to Another -Girl Groups Lost and Found has just been released to celebrate them. Mark Hagen, presenter of"Sold on Song" on BBC Radio 2 and a producer of"Top of the Pops", and Lucy O Brien, a music journalist and author of She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, talk about why we should keen to remember them.