Question: What are the best books about the girl group phenomenon?
Answer: The best non-fiction books about girl groups in general are certainly John Clemente's recent Girl Groups: Fabulous Females That Rocked the World and Alan Betrock's historic but hard-to-find Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound . Also worth checking out, if you can find it, is Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow: Girl Groups from the '50s On by Charlotte Greig.
The best autobiographies about individual groups and vocalists include My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story, Mary Wilson's Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme and Ronnie Spector's memoir Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette. The best bio of an individual group is probably The Original Marvelettes: Motown's Mystery Girl Group by Marc Taylor.
Finally, those interested in learning these songs themselves would do well to pick up the sheet music in the Hal Leonard book My Boyfriend's Back: 41 Girl Group and Solo Women Hits of the '50s and '60s.
