Doris Coley

Coley was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina to Zeno and Ruth Best Coley With schoolmates Shirley Owens (later Shirley Alston Reeves), Addie "Micki" Harris and Beverly Lee, she formed the Shirelles in Passaic in 1958, one of the first all-girl groups of the rock era. The four teenagers did not graduate with their class of 1958, but they earned diplomas later. They performed their self-written "I Met Him on a Sunday" for Florence Greenberg and was signed to her Tiara label (the song was so popular, it was bought by Decca Records). She married Wallace Jackson and have twins, Staci (later Richardson) and Tracy Jackson. == Death ==