Mary Weiss, the singer who channeled the melodrama of adolescence as the lead vocalist of the quintessential girl group the Shangri-Las, has died ... occasionally singing with pronounced Queens ...

Mary Weiss, lead singer of the 1960s pop group The Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75, her record label said. "Mary was an icon, a hero, a heroine, to both young men and women of my generation ...

While the entire girl group sound was crushed by the British ... on punk rock - were covering "Great Big Kiss" and singing the Shangri-Las' praises. A couple of years after that, Blondie, whose ...