Biography
During the mid-1960s British pop singer Jacki Bond produced three overlooked yet exquisite girl group singles for the Strike label. Scant details survive about her origins, but the liner notes to the fourth volume of RPM’s Dream Babes series note that she brought virtually no musical experience to Strike when she joined the company as a secretary; the label chiefs nonetheless steered her into the studio. Her debut single, “My Sister’s Boy,” appeared in 1965 and, although EMI licensed the release, it failed to chart. The next year she followed with “Don't You Worry ('Bout Me).” Her third effort, “He Say,” proved the strongest of the three, a driving track cast in the classic American girl group mold, yet Strike’s modest promotional budget prevented any real chance of success. In 1967 Bond returned to record one last time, cutting the Lionel Bart-penned “Reviewing the Situation”; when the label folded that August the single remained unreleased and her recording career ended abruptly. Two years later Sandie Shaw covered “Reviewing the Situation.”