Vernons Girls CD

The Vernons Girls CD

The Vernons Girls were originally formed as part of the social activities of the Liverpool-based Vernon's Football Pools company.
The company saw it as a unique form of promotion and initially sponsored the project.
At first, the singers were drawn exclusively from the staff of young women who checked the public's pools coupons.
Demand for the girls to give public performances grew far beyond expectation, and women would seek employment with Vernons simply as a means of breaking into show business.
The Vernon Girls appeared on the ITV show Oh Boy! between 1958 and 1959, and released a series of relatively successful singles for labels Parlophone between 1958 and 1961.
Led by Maureen Kennedy, from 1961 the group reduced their membership to five and then to three members, and by 1962 they had signed to Decca Records with four of their singles reaching the national chart.
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 - and they also appeared in the Billy Fury film Play It Cool.