Like the Monkees, eventually they learned how to play their own instruments. When they first started out their act was just a T&A gimmick-I’m guessing one that was inspired by Charlotte Morman’s topless cello playing, then in the news, although topless waitresses were already a “thing” at that point-with the ‘birds shaking their tailfeathers (and tits) at punters but miming along to backing tracks in places like the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, LA’s risque Blue Bunny Club and Tipsy’s, a “cabaret” in San Francisco’s then wild North Beach neighborhood where they were booked for 14 solid months. There were two! What are the odds of that?įirst we have the American Ladybirds, a garage rock group that was comprised of five showgirls and begun in San Francisco (some sources say NJ) sometime in 1966. Now as it turns out, there wasn’t just a single band of topless Ladybirds, either. There were several all-girl bands in the 1960s named The Ladybirds, some of them who performed fully-clothed and some who did not.īut let’s narrow it down to just the Ladybirds who got their kits off, shall we, leaving out a California-based group by that name who opened for the Stones for at least one performance during their 1965 US tour and also the Ladybirds, an English all-girl vocal harmony group often seen on The Benny Hill Show. The Ladybirds was apparently quite the popular name for female pop groups in the 1960s.
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