The Blossoms

Son - In - Law
That's When The Tears Start

In the early sixties if someone had a hit record  occasionally it was countered with an opposing lyric - the Answer Back Song.  As an example James Brown's It's a Man's Man's World was countered with Irma Thomas It's A Man's Woman's World.

Chain Gang by Sam Cooke was re-done as That's The Sound Of My Man by: (answers on a postcard).



The Blossoms did Son-In-Law (1961) in answer to Ernie K Doe's hit Mother In Law. But their best soul number was That's When The Tears Start.

The group were originally formed as The Dreamers and started out in high school in Los Angeles. The first line up consisted of Fanita James (née Barrett), Gloria Jones and twin sisters Nanette and Annette Williams. In 1957 Nanette left to be replaced by Darlene Wright, later to be known as  Darlene Love. Gloria Jones later went on the record the northern soul classic Tainted Love.