The Honeys were a 1960s girl group

Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

, who recorded for Capitol Records

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, and were a kind of female counterpart to the Beach Boys; Beach Boy Brian Wilson

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 served as their record producer

Record producer

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 and chief songwriter

Songwriter

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.

The Honeys (the name a slang term for a female surfing

Surfing

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 enthusiast) consisted of sisters Marilyn

Marilyn Rovell

Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, née Rovell, is an American singer. She was a member of groups The Honeys and Spring with her sister Diane Rovell...

 and Diane Rovell, and their cousin Ginger Blake. Marilyn and Diane had met the Beach Boys when the boys performed at a Hollywood club called Pandora's Box, in late 1962. Brian and Marilyn (who was still in high school) began dating, and he brought the girls into the recording studio

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, to produce their songs ("Surfin' Down The Swanee River", "Shoot The Curl", "Pray For Surf"), and included them as backup performers on Beach Boys records. The cheerleader voices on "Be True to Your School

Be True to Your School

"Be True to Your School" is a song by The Beach Boys. The album version of this song was recorded on Monday, September 2, 1963. It appears on Little Deuce Coupe and Endless Summer....

" were performed by the Honeys, and the two groups sometimes shared the same concert bill.

In 1964 The Honeys sang background vocals for Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean

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 on the hit singles, "The New Girl In School", "Dead Man's Curve

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", and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

"The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" is a song written by Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean. The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964...

".

The Honeys' career faded as surfing music went out of vogue. Marilyn and Brian were married, and became the parents of Carnie

Carnie Wilson

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 and Wendy Wilson

Wendy Wilson

Wendy Wilson is an American singer and member of the pop singing trio Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and his first wife Marilyn, who was a member of girl group The Honeys; and she is the younger sister of Carnie Wilson.Wilson was born in Los Angeles,...

, who later found fame as members of Wilson Phillips

Wilson Phillips

-Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Other charted songs:-Awards and nominations:...

. Marilyn and Diane later re-teamed as a duo called Spring (aka American Spring), during the 1970s.

During the 1990s, the Honeys reunited, and performed locally around Hollywood and Los Angeles

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. An anthology CD of their music (including several Spring recordings) was also released by Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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in 1992.

Discography

Date	Label	Titles
April 1963	Capitol 4952	Shoot The Curl/Surfin' Down the Swannee River
September 1963	Capitol 5034	Pray For Surf/Hide Go Seek
December 1963	Capitol 5093	The One You Can't Have/From Jimmy With Tears
April 1964	Warner Brothers 5430	He's A Doll/The Love Of A Boy And A Girl
March 1969	Capitol 2454	Tonight You Belong To Me/Goodnight, My Love
1983	Rhino RNLP 851	Ecstasy (LP)
May 1992	Capitol 7 93193 2	Capitol Collectors Series (CD)
June 2001	Capitol 72435-29850-2-9	The Honeys Collection (CD)