The Shirelles: "A friend’s mother, Florence Greenberg, ran a local label out of her home. The girls autidioned in her living room, but Shirley Alston, lead singer, recalled that at first they all said, “Nah, we don’t want to sign a record contract. We just want to fool around.” W all felt so silly singing for our friend’s mother, everybody saying, ‘You start, no, you start...’"