Jamie Records released the Beatlettes’ “Dance Beatle Dance” b/w “We Were Meant To Marry” in January 1964 to coincide with the Beatles first triumphant tour of the United States. The group consistrd of Helen Hutchinson, Vera Carey and Lucille Dunbar. They also recorded as the Persianettes with Timmy Carr. The group was from Camden, New Jersey, and got together to back Timmy Carr, whom Vera Carey described as, “a short guy, about five-five, but he was stocky. He was no little pushover. He was like a weight-lifter, muscles, all muscles.” Their first record was on Guyden, “Only Now and Then,” b/w “I Could Never Stop Cryin’” (Guyden 2104) in 1963. They then came out on Jamie/Guyden distributed Olympia Records with “Timmy Boy” b/w “There Comes A Time” (Olympia 100).

The group broke from Timmy Carr in 1964 because Jamie producer Bob Finiz had the “idea that Timmy should go solo. He had been listening to Chuck Jackson and Tommy Hunt having hits, and he felt Timmy was strong enough to on his own.” While Timmy actually got three males to back him up as Timmy and the Empires, the former background singers began working on their own, too, and had releases on Swan, including “What Good Is It” (Swan 4271) and unissued sides, like “Run Run” that eventually came out on a Kent CD. They also recorded songs that were used as demos for artists like the Three Degrees, though Vera Carey felt, “I don’t know why they got them and we didn’t—no one could sing better than Lucille.”