Nancy Baron

Nancy Baron is an American rock singer. Born into a family of singers and writers, Baron was introduced to many musical genres by her family at an early age. Noting her singing talents, her parents brought their young child to auditions for musical theater productions in New York City. The singer joined Glee clubs at school and formed her own female singing groups at school. At the age of 11, she heard her first" Rock and Roll" song. This affected her taste in music and desire to emulate the style; it was the first time she heard a Rock group with a female lead singer. This was significant since she realized that she could be a lead singer.

At the age of 15, her parents sent her for vocal coaching in Manhattan, N.Y. After a while he sent her to record a demonstration record in a sound studio near Broadway. Upon hearing her sing, the sound engineer contacted his friend who was a producer of a small record company in N.Y.C.; he was impressed by her voice and immediately signed her to a contract. The singer's mother co-signed the document since Baron was a fifteen year old minor at the time. Baron became one of the many girl group/girl sound singers of the early 1960s. Baron was not a member of a group; her producers would hire "pay for hire" backup groups for her recordings.^[1] This "sound" as it is referred to had much to do with Phil Spector, one of its major creators. Mr. Spector produced recordings of this genre prolifically. The groups were composed of young adult or teenage girls, each with a lead singer and any number of back up singers. Baron's recordings were in this category.^[2] Baron recorded two vinyl records on two different labels before leaving the Music field at the age of nineteen.

At the time, the troubled label (a small N.Y.C. record company owned by Wally Zober0) could not promote Baron's " I've got feeling/Oh Yeah" 45 vinyl and so she eventually signed a contract with Jerry Goldstein Producer of FGG productions, also located in Manhattan. "Where did my Jimmy go/Tra la la, I love you" was the result (Diamond). Baron, upon reaching the age of 19 realized the need to seek higher education due to changes in the music industry of those days; she eventually received an advanced degree. The genre "Girl Sounds" was a huge phenomenon in the early sixties . Nancy Baron's recordings (1961–1963) are in that category. Girl Sounds is a sub category of Girl Groups. Recently, Baron's recording of "I've got a feeling" was "covered" by The Secret Sisters and their version is on their recent album as well as released as a "single".^[3]

References

1. ^ The Girl Group Sound of the sixties/www.digitaldreamdoor.com pages/benson/girl group sound html
2. ^ About.com/oldies music encyclopedia/Girl Group/Girl Sounds/early 1960's
3. ^ Roughstock.com/New Artist Spotlight>The Secret Sisters

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