The Cover Girls

The Cover Girls originated in 1986 as a venture conceived by songwriter and producer Andy "Panda" Tripoli alongside music promoter Sal Abbatiello. Based in New York, the dance-pop ensemble maintained a fluid roster of singers whose initial configuration included Caroline Jackson, Louise "Angel" Sabater, and Sunshine Wright. Their opening chapter proved immediately successful, as five tracks from the 1987 debut Show Me appeared on various Billboard singles charts. Of those, the standout singles "Because of You" and "Promise Me" both climbed into the Hot 100's upper tier. When the follow-up We Can't Go Wrong arrived in 1989, Margo Urban had stepped in for Wright, and the revised trio earned an eighth-place pop placement for the title song. By the 1992 album Here It Is, the lineup had shifted again, with Evelyn Escalera and Michelle Valentine taking the places of Urban and Sabater; this edition achieved a Top 10 pop success via its rendition of Rose Royce's "Wishing on a Star." None of the founding vocalists participated in the sessions for Satisfy, which surfaced in 1996. Although live appearances and occasional featured spots continued afterward, no further full-length projects emerged. Rosters kept evolving, yet the original members shared a stage once more during a mid-2010s reunion.