I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy: "It all comes down to the song 'Peanut Duck.' . . . here it is, along with 119 other songs, on the Rhino collection One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds--Lost & Found, and 'Peanut Duck' can stand for the spirit of this flabbergasting collection: the desire of the anonymous to use rock 'n' roll as a means of making themselves heard. You've never listened to anything like Marsha Gee. [She] takes off, snorting and yelling and jabbering: 'Quack, quack, quackgiggy, quackgiggy, brrrrrrrrr, quack, quack, giggy, giggy, gi-gi-gi-giggy-gooma, gi-gi-gi-gi-gi quackgiggy, quackgiggy, gi-gig-goom, gi-gig-goom, gi-gig-goom-goom' . . . Whoever Marsha is or was, she fulfilled her earthly destiny on 'Peanut Duck.'"
I tried singing rave up section of "Peanut Duck" this evening, but it's not the same if you aren't teen-age girl during the 1960s. The full review does not even have a chance to mention all the outstanding tracks on the collection. My (current) favorite is by the Fabulettes in "Try the Worryin' Way" where the singer extols the weight loss benefits of getting a man who'll treat you wrong so you lose weight worryin' about him. It's true! If I were more well versed in the intricacies of the girl group sound or eloquent I would write the tribute this deserves. (Greil Marcus' quote--"for the gods, and the girls' bathroom"--may be as close to perfect as possible). I will not, however, compare this to a girl in a white dress with a parasol because that doesn't really fit.
