The Beehives

Early 1960s girl group from the 1986 novel Fuel-Injected Dreams by James Robert Baker. Their 1963 hit was "Angel on the Highway," a teen death genre song, produced by hitmaker Dennis Contrelle, a Phil Spector-like producer.

Some lyrics:

Now I'm his angel on the highway I see his lonely car below Now I'm his angel on the highway He loves me still oh this I know

The B-side was "Baby, Please," described as "...a slow, pulsating, romantic song..." Contrelle dumped them after the hit. He hated them, and actually did some of the vocals himself in falsetto.

See also

• The Stingrays
• The Vectors
• Louise Wright
• Little Willy Wheeler

External Links

• Publishers Weekly review
• Kirkus review
• Trash Fiction website review
• novel on Archive.org (account required)