The Vernons Girls

The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists. They were formed at the Vernons football pools company in the 1950s in Liverpool, settling down to a sixteen strong choir and recording an album of standards.
As a 16-piece vocal group, the Vernons Girls appeared on the ITV show Oh Boy with the house band between 1958 and 1959, and made a series of relatively successful singles for the label Parlophone between 1958 and 1961. Their 1958 LP released on Parlophone was arranged and conducted by Peter Knight, with sleeve notes by Eamonn Andrews. This record is significantly different from their later pop hits, featuring such fifties standards as "We'll Gather Lilacs", "Lonely Ballerina", and the "Cuckoo in the Clock".
Led by Maureen Kennedy, from 1961 the group reduced their membership to five and then three members, and by 1962 had signed to Decca Records where they recorded covers of American hits. Their cover of Clyde McPhatter's "Lover Please" and "You Know What I Mean" were both hits; the latter was also originally the B-side of "Lover Please". In the US, the group charted with the first Beatles tribute album there, We Love The Beatles. The Carefrees had previously charted with a Beatles tribute called "We Love You Beatles" in the UK in 1964.

As session singers for Decca, the Vernons Girls were the female backing voices on many hit singles during the 1960s – one of the first being Billy Fury's "Maybe Tomorrow". The trio of Jean Owen (aka Samantha Jones), Frances Lea, and Maureen Kennedy.


Jean Owen had solo success under the name Samantha Jones.

1. Lover Please

2. You Know What I Mean

3. Dat's Love

4. Be Nice To Him Mama

5. Don't Wanna Go

6. The Locomotion

7. See For Yourself

8. Funny All Over

9. Do The Bird

10. I'm Gonna Let My Hair Down

11. Stay at Home

12. He'll Never Come back

13. Mama Doesn't Know

14. Just Another Girl

15. Tommorow Is Another Day

16. Why Why Why

17. Hey Lover Boy

18. Stupid Little Girl

19. We Love The Beatles

20. Only You Can Do It

21. It's A Sin To Tell a Lie

22. Don't Say Goodbye 

      1. Lover Please.