The Girls were an American all-female band from Los Angeles, California, United States. They called themselves The Sandoval Sisters and The Moonmaids before ending up as The Girls in 1965, when they signed a recording contract with Capitol Records.
The group was formed by sisters Rosemary (lead guitar), Diane (rhythm guitar), Sylvia (bass), and Margaret (drums and lead vocals) Sandoval. These East L.A. Latinas made more mainstream headway than many of their peers, recording for Capitol Records, appearing on TV, and nabbing a Fender guitar sponsorship.
They spent the first half of the ’60s working as The Four Queens, The Teen Bugs, The Sandoval Sisters, and The Moonmaids. The four girls first recorded as 'The Four Queens' on Teron Records : "A Cinder In My Eye" / "The Boy Next Door" (1964).
In these early
incarnations they bore a poppy, ’50s-indebted sound, but that changed by
the time they became The Girls in 1965. It was under this name that
they released the Capitol singles “Chico’s Girl” (penned by the
legendary songwriting duo Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil) and “My Baby,” a
rugged but jangly rocker written by singer/drummer Margaret Sandoval. The group toured the Far East, which included performing for the troops in Vietnam.
