Velvelettes (The) Lonely Lonely Girl Am I

Unlike Mary Wells (“every teenage boys understanding sweetheart”) or the Supremes (“untouchable, preening dream goddesses”), the Velvelettes were, as Detroit author Susan Whithall writes in Women of Motown, “the archetypical early ‘60s college girls: wholesome, likeable and cute,” and while they deserved more and bigger hits, their best recordings were as smart as they were, sly girl-group confections straight out of Hitsville.