Blog: Geezer Music Club

In a recent piece about Sixties pop star Vic Dana , I mentioned that he'd performed for a while as a fill-in for Gary Troxel of the Fleetwoods, but the group itself deserves a little more attention. Long before Vic Dana came along, the Fleetwoods had some hugely popular hits that not only topped pop charts, but crossed over to the R&B side too. It all started in the late Fifties, when Olympia, Washington, high-school friends Gretchen Christopher and Barbara Ellis formed a singing duo, and then decided to add fellow student and trumpeter Gary Troxel to [...]

• Come Softly to Me » Fleetwoods-Come Softly To Me.mp3