The Politics of Popular Music
Throughout the early 1960s, when Goldie and the Gingerbreads were touring extensively throughout North America, club and venue promoters were not so much interested in their music as in the excitement that an all-female musical group caused. Goldie and the Gingerbreads did have one single, "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat", that reached No. 25 on the UK Singles Chart in 1965. Although the single was also released in the United States, a recording of the same song by the heavily promoted Herman's Hermits was released with great fanfare just two weeks prior to the Gingerbreads' release, thus fatally undermining the Gingerbreads' chances for their first hit single in the U.S.
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