Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford

The following page is about the singer best known as Marilyn Wilson. For the Australian swimmer see Marilyn Wilson (athlete).


Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford (née Rovell; born 1947) is an American singer. In the 1960s she founded the Honeys and after their dissolution in 1969, she founded American Spring with her sister Diane Rovell. She was also the first wife of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, and is the mother of singers Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips.


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