Gigi & The Charmaines
The
Jackson Sisters
(members Marian "Gigi" Jackson, Rosemary Jackson (piano), Jerri
Jackson and Merel Jackson)
The Charmaines
(members Marian "Gigi" Jackson (lead), Irene Vinegar and
Dee Watkins)
Fraternity 873 - Rockin' Old Man / If You Were Mine - 1960
Fraternity 880 - What Kind Of Girl (Do You Think I Am) / All You
Gotta Do* - 1961 *also recorded in 1961 by
Erma Franklin on Epic 9468.
Dot 16351 - On The Wagon* / Where Is The
Boy Tonight - 1961 *also recorded in 1962 by
The Ronettes on Colpix 646.
Kenny Smith
Fraternity 907 - Lucy Miloo* / Dee Dee Darlin' -
1963 *backing vocals by The Charmaines.
Max Falcon
Fraternity 908 - I'm So Satisfied* /
Carol Made Her Choice - 1963 *backing vocals by The Charmaines.
The Charmaines
(members Marian "Gigi" Jackson (lead), Irene Vinegar and
Dee Watkins)
Fraternity 909 - G. I. Joe* / Don't Take Away Your Love - 1963
*written by Kenny Smith. **also recorded as "Don't Take Your Love
Away" in 1962 by
Johnny Nash on Warner Bros. 52370.
Kenny Smith & Jerri Jackson
Fraternity 916 - All The
Time* / Summer's Gone - 1963 *session: The Charmaines.
The Charmaines / The Dave
Rockingham Trio
Fraternity 917 - Goodbye Baby Goodbye / Midnight -
1963 *flip by The Dave Rockingham Trio.
Lonnie Mack
(born Lonnie McIntosh in 1941 in Indiana)
Fraternity 918 - Baby, What's Wrong* / Where There's A Will - 1963
*backing vocals by The Charmaines --- track also recorded in 1962 by
Jimmy Reed on
Vee-Jay 425.
Fraternity 920 - Say Something Nice To
Me* / Lonnie On The Move - 1964 *backing vocals by The Charmaines.
The Charmaines
(members Marian "Gigi" Jackson (lead), Irene Vinegar and
Dee Watkins)
Fraternity 921 - I Idolize You* / Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie
Woogie Flu - 1964 (cancelled) *also recorded in 1960 by
Ike & Tina Turner on
Sue 735.
Carl Edmondson
Fraternity - Baby Please Don't Go - 1964 (this previously unissued
recording which features The Charmaines as backing vocalsists was
released in the U. K. in 2007 on an Ace CD "Gigi & The Charmaines"
CDCHD 1135)
The Charmaines
(members Marian "Gigi" Jackson (lead), Irene Vinegar and Dee
Watkins)
Fraternity - Only Love - (this previously unissued recording was
released in the U. K. in 2007 on an Ace CD "Gigi & The Charmaines"
CDCHD 1135)
Fraternity 931 - Goodbye Baby Goodbye / Rockin' Pneumonia And The
Boogie Woogie Flu* - 1964 *session: Lonnie Mack (guitar) --- also
recorded in 1957 by Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns on Ace 530.
The Charmaines
(members Gigi Jackson, Irene Vinegar and Jerri Jackson)
Date 1518 - Eternally / If You Ever - 1966
Date - If You Ever - 1966 (previously unissued unedited version
which was released in the U. K. in 2007 on an Ace CD "Gigi & The
Charmaines" CDCHD 1135)
Date - I Don't Wanna Lose Him - 1966 (recorded 9-March-1966 this
previously unissued recording was released in the U. K. in 2007 on
an Ace CD "Gigi & The Charmaines" CDCHD 1135 and also released in
the U. K. on the 2007 Kent CD "Northern Monsters" CDKEND 272)
The Charmaines
(members Gigi Jackson, Irene Vinegar and Dee Watkins)
Fraternity 961 - G. I. Joe / If You Were Mine - 1966
Fraternity 970 - Goodbye Baby Goodbye / I Can't Go On This Way -
1966
Gerri
Jackson & Herman Lewis / Herman Lewis (Jerrri
Jackson and Herman Lewis Griffin (died 1989 --- cause: heart attack))
Stone Blue 101 -The Right Direction* / Who's Kissing You
Tonite? - 1966 *Also released in 1966 by
Clara Ward on Verve 10412.
Gigi & The
Charmaines (members Gigi Jackson, Irene Vinegar
and Jerri Jackson)
Columbia 4-43978 - Girl Crazy / Guilty - 1966
Columbia 4-44246 - Poor Unfortunate Me* / Brazil** - 1967 *also
recorded in 1964 by
J. J. Barnes on Ring 101 and in 1968 by Gloria Taylor on
King Soul 493-2. **also recorded in 1950 by Xavier Cugat on
Columbia 4-39088.
James Brown and
The Famous Flames
King 6072 - Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year (Part 1) /
Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year (Part 2) - 1967
(backing vocals by The Charmaines (members Mariane "Gigi" Jackson,
Jerri Jackson and Irene Vinegar))
Gigi & The Charmaines
(members Gigi Jackson, Irene Vinegar and Jerri
Jackson)
Minit 32074 - Keep On Searchin'* / Smile - 1969 *also
recorded in 1965 by Candy & The Kisses on
Scepter 12106.
Jerri Jackson
Parallax 401 - Love Me / Will My Dream Come True -
1970
Parallax 402 - Let Me Try / I Can Almost Believe - 1970
Gigi and Jerri Jackson
(sisters Marian and Jerri Jackson (later member of The Platters)) in
1974 after Gigi Jackson married a then divorced from
Mary Wells Herman Griffin, the group broke up.
Gigi & Carmen
(Marian Griffin and ?)