Topic: Joyce Baker

The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists. They were formed at the football pools company in the 1950s in Liverpool, as a sixteen strong choir and recorded an album of standards.

In 1958 and 1959 they appeared on the ITV show, Oh Boy!, with the house band, and made a series of singles for labels such as Decca and Parlophone, in a more condensed group with between three and five members. These were mainly covers of American hits which would sell less than the originals.

As session singers for Decca they appeared on dozens of hits into the 1960s, and even had a couple of their own, with the first ever Scouse accents in the Top 30: 'You know what I mean'—a line remembered by John Lennon as the song "I Saw Her Standing There" was created, and which replaced the original line by Paul McCartney.