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In the later 1990s they appeared in Cliff Richard's "Oh Boy" from Wembley this being an amended version with new editions to a few of the originals. Three of them were in the Billy Fury movie, " Play It Cool", while Lyn Cornell and the Breakaways were in "Just For Fun". The Vernons Girls appear on film as a trio on "Around the Beatles" with The Beatles, Long John Baldry, P. Another former Vernons Girl, Maggie Stredder, went on to form another session group with Gloria George, The Ladybirds, who are today most famous for their long association with " The Benny Hill Show".For some reason the Ladybirds were known as the Sharades when they cut a single for Joe Meek in 1965.Its usually reckoned the Vernons Girls were the female backing voices on literally hundreds of hit singles during the 60s one of the first being Billy Fury's Maybe tomorrow

As the Carefrees they also charted with We love you Beatles and made an album only available in the StatesBefore long there were solo singers like Lyn Cornell (married to session drummer Andy White, notable for replacing Ringo Starr on an early take of " Love Me Do") and splinter acts like The Breakaways, one of whom, Vicky Haseman, married Joe Brown. In the United States the group charted with the first Beatles tribute over there, "We Love The Beatles". These were mainly covers of American hits which would sell less than the originals.Īs session singers for Decca they appeared on dozens of hits into the 1960s, and even had a couple of their own with what can be seen as the first ever raw Scouse accents in the top 30 Fact|date=June 2007: 'You know what I mean'-a line remembered by John Lennon as the song " I Saw Her Standing There" was created, and which replaced the original line by Paul McCartney.

In 19 they appeared on the ITV show, Oh Boy!, with the house band, and made a series of singles for labels like Decca and Parlophone, in a more condensed group with between three and five members. They were formed at the football pools company in 1950s Liverpool, as a sixteen strong choir and cut an album of standards. The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists.