The Lana Sisters

The Lana Sisters were a British vocal group formed by Iris Long in 1958, with Lynne Abrams. They placed an advert in The Stage for a third member and received a reply from Mary O'Brien, who would go on to solo success a few years later as Dusty Springfield. They were managed by Evelyn Taylor, and toured around England. Initial publicity for the group claimed they were three actual sisters with the surname Lana: Iris, Lynne, and Shann. They appeared on the BBC's Six-Five Special and Drumbeat with Adam Faith and John Barry, and later took part in a Christmas special "Tommy Steele’s Spectacular" with the song "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat". They appeared twice at the Royal Albert Hall and toured with Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, and Morecambe & Wise. Their cover of the Marv Johnson song "You Got What It Takes" became a Top 10 hit in Ireland in 1960. Mary O'Brien left the Lana Sisters in 1960, taking the stage name Dusty Springfield and joining her brother Tom Springfield and another friend to make The Springfields. She went solo in 1963. The Lana Sisters continued until 1963, when Lynne Abrams left to get married. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lan...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)