Pool Of Sound - The Reynolds Girls

The Reynolds Sisters

Formed in 1987 with Linda born in 1970 and Aisling born in 1972 brought up in Litherland, Liverpool, the sisters burst into the pop charts in 1989 with the Stock, Aitken and Waterman penned protest song 'I'd Rather Jack (than Fleetwood Mac)'.
They were signed to the PWL record label after giving Pete Waterman a demo tape. Soon afterwards 18-year-old Linda Reynolds and her 16-year-old sister Aisling spent 12 weeks in the charts – peaking at number eight. Selling over 100,000 copies it also charted in the Top Ten in Ireland, The Netherlands and Belgium and also made No.43 in Australia.

'I'd Rather Jack' started out as a response to music critics who ignored the younger pop acts in the UK at the time and to radio DJ's who continued to play older bands on their playlists rather than Stock, Aitken and Waterman songs.
It was also a response to a perceived snub at the Brit Awards where the label's acts lost out to more mature acts such as Enya and Steve Winwood.
Pete Waterman said: " 'I'd Rather Jack' was a tongue-in-cheek record about the changes that were going on in radio at the time. We wanted to knock that so we wrote this record. I'd met the girls at a show and thought 'we may as well use these two' ".
The video featured the girls dancing in front of various Liverpool locations and landmarks including the Pier Head, the Liver Building and a Mersey ferry.

After their one hit 'The Reynolds Girls' were dropped by the label. Their father founded Renotone records on which to release the girls' second and final single 'Get Real'. The single flopped and 'The Reynolds Girls' disappeared.

Pete Waterman remembers: "The record went flying up the charts until 'The Reynolds Girls' appeared on Top Of The Pops. If it was Mel And Kim it would have been number one. The joke went a bit sour on us because it would have been a huge hit if we'd got the image right."
The duo's younger sister, Debbie, played the original Katie Rogers in Brookside from 1987 to 1989.

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