The Rag Dolls, Germany's First Girl Group

photo (c) Ilse Jung

Playing nearly every weekend in the industrial Ruhr Valley around Duisberg, Bochum, Dusseldorf area, the Rag Dolls were a phenomenon in the male-dominated "beatbands" genre.

Sources:

"THE RAG DOLLS" eine ziemlich unbekannte Gruppe aus dem Ruhrpott von 1965,  by Manfred Nitschke  (Oct 24, 2017)

Women, Power, Music, Remembering the Rag Dolls, by Heike Mund, DW (Aug 20, 2013)

The Rag Dolls, Manfred Nitschke, The Beat Club

All-Female Bands of the 1960s - Happy Women's History Month!,  by Eric Brightwell

The Rag Dolls, Ilse Jung

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