Talk:The Shangri-Las

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[edit] Dates?

OK, they were only together during the sixties but they had two hits in 1972 and 1976? Neither date is listed in their hit listing.--Anchoress 14:05, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

OK it's been fixed. Anchoress 23:50, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I'd say merge all the pages into here, as they're all small stubs, and (from what I've gathered) only known for the The Shangri-Las. Radagast83 22:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] more info., please

could someone please include info. on the songwriters behind all those singles. Thank you. 193.27.9.131 14:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge and Info

The Shangri-La's are still touring apparently ask them. Ive seen dates for a combined concert featuring the Shangri-La's The Coasters and The Drifters.

Neither Weiss sister has anything to do with them, nor did the Gansers when they were alive, nor does Shadow Morton. The "Shangri-Las" are a generic oldies act that plays three actual Shangri Las songs in their set at most. As far as I know, no one in the group had any career of note at all.````

  • Re the above two unsigned comments - the legal dispute between the original Shangri-Las and the group put together later by Fox (who claimed to own the rights to the name) is mentioned in the article, but perhaps could do with some expansion. Clearly Mary Weiss of the original group now has a career "of note", and it may be that she could use a separate page of her own. Ghmyrtle 08:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
    • I agree, Weiss has become independantly notable and should have her own page. 23skidoo 04:13, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Message to User:Shiai

Thanks for making your improvements to this article - you're doing a great job! Two points - first, it would be helpful if you could set up your own user page so there could be some forum for discussing changes with you when it's needed, and secondly, it would be helpful if you could add in references (preferably in-line citations) for the information you're adding. See THIS for more advice. Ghmyrtle 09:18, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reunion shows

The claim that Mary Weiss was part of any "Shangri Las" shows after 1989 is untrue. When she played at Atlantic Antic, she said onstage that the last time she played in New York was the 1977 CBGB show and I've never seen her mention any reunion shows other than that one and the 89 show. In fact, she has frequently said that she had no involvement in music at all except those shows. There is an article by a well-known rock critic (I'm thinking Christgau or Greil Marcus) on the web that claims Betty Weiss was involved, but that's incorrect.```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.167.227.154 (talk) 15:55, 7 October 2007 (UTC)