The Daughters of Eve were an American garage rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1965. Thy are considered the first female rock band from Chicago, and the group released four singles during their existence before disbanding in 1968.
In late 1965, Carl Bonafede was seeking to form a sister group to accompany the other band he managed, The Buckinghams. After several auditions, the original lineup of singers and guitarists Judy Johnson and Marsha Tomal, bassist Andrea Levin, and drummer Debi Pomeroy was rounded. The band choose the local Senn High School as their launching point to attract a local following. For their act, Pomeroy became the early centerpiece of the group's sound for her standout performance at the drums. Once the band became well known in Chicago, they began touring within the Midwest, and opened for contemporaries in the Chicago rock scene like The Shadows of Knight, The Cryan' Shames, and The Buckinghams. Since the bandmates were under the age of 16, many of the clubs they performed in required adult supervision and forbidding them to sit outside the stage. The first non-ballroom performance by the band was in February 1966 at the annual Chicago Auto Show held in the McCormick Place by Chicago's lakefront. The band was featured as a backing band in local programming with Janis Ian to support the release of her song "Society's Child". In 1966, the band signed to a contract with USA Records to produce their first single "Hey Lover" b/w "Stand by Me" and their second one, "Symphony of My Soul" b/w "Help Me Boy". They both failed to chart nationally, but it became a popular release in the Chicago area that they would tour to promote. For their next releases, the band changed bass players, first with Marilou Davidson and then Lori Wax.
Their third single, "Don't Waste My Time" b/w "He Cried" was released on the Spectra Sound label in 1967, and their final single, "Social Tragedy" b/w "A Thousand Stars" on the Cadet label in 1968. "Social Tragedy" featured vocal harmonies conducted by Tomal and Johnson. The releases showed development of the band's sound from garage rock to including psychedelic rock influences. They still held the status as a popular regional act, but by the end of 1968 the group disbanded.
