You may not know the name LaLa Brooks, but you know her voice. Dolores "LaLa" Brooks was only 15 years old when she sang lead vocal on a girl group classic – the Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron," a No.
3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.Brooks was not a charter member of the Crystals. The group was formed in 1961 by Barbara Alston, Mary Thomas, Myrna Giraud, Dolores "Dee Dee" Kenniebrew and Patricia Wright.
They were signed to Phil Spector and Lester Sill's Philles Records and gave the label its first Hot 100 chart hit, "There's No Other (Like My Baby)," featuring Alston on lead.Brooks was a student at P.S.
73 in Brooklyn and one afternoon while enrolled in an after-school program, she heard a piano playing and followed the sound.
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