Teen-Beat. The Feminine Complex.

The Feminine Complex were an all-female American garage rock band in the 1960s. The band formed while the girls were attending Maplewood High School in Nashville, Tennessee. They released only one album, Livin' Love, in 1969.

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FANCY FRIENDS (Mindy)

THE FEMININE COMPLEX Hide and Seek 7-inch vinyl 45

THE FEMININE COMPLEX To Be in Love album

THE FEMININE COMPLEX, band, Mindy Dalton, Judy Griffith, Laura Napier, Pame Stephens, Jean Williams

THE FEMININE COMPLEX
Photo by [unknown]

THE FEMININE COMPLEX, band, vinyl single

THE FEMININE COMPLEX
7-inch vinyl 45 jacket
[Athena Records]

THE FEMININE COMPLEX
Photo by [unknown]

BIOGRAPHY

An obscure all-girl Sixties garage band from Nashville, Tennessee, the Feminine Complex comprised singer/guitarist Mindy Dalton, bassist Jean Williams, vocalist/tambourinist Judi Griffith, organist Pame Stephens and drummer Lana Napier. According to legend, the group was formed by Williams and Napier in 1966 while both were sophomores at Nashville's Maplewood High School; originally named the Pivots, a moniker suggested by the girls' basketball coach, after recruiting teammates Dalton and Griffith they soon made their debut at a school talent show, dressed in matching pantsuits and performing covers of contemporary hits. After adding Stephens, the quintet rechristened themselves the Feminine Complex and began making regular appearances at Skateland, then Nashville's hottest summer teen hangout.

In a local scene otherwise dominated by male combos like the Anglo Saxons, the Feminine Complex quickly earned a cult following, and soon they were touring throughout Tennessee. They soon caught the attention of A&R vet Dee Kilpatrick, who'd just formed the Athena Records label; the Feminine Complex was the label's first signing, and in 1969 the band's debut LP Livin' Love was released. However, by the time the album appeared the group had already disintegrated -- Stephens, who'd graduated high school, ultimately chose college over rock and roll, and both Williams and Napier both quit soon after. Dalton and Griffith briefly forged on as a duo, but by late 1969 the Feminine Complex was no more.

In 1996, the hip indie label TeenBeat reissued Livin' Love, followed a year later by the rarities collection To Be in Love, both rumored to be not vintage recordings but instead the work of latter-day pranksters.

- Jason Ankeny, All Music

DISCOGRAPHY

SINGLES

Six O'Clock In The Morning
I Won't Run
Are You Lonesome Like Me?
Hide and Seek

ALBUMS

Livin' Love
Livin' Love [Re-issue]
To Be in Love

COMPILATIONS

1996 Teenbeat Sampler
1997 Teenbeat Sampler
1998 Teenbeat Sampler
2000 Teenbeat Sampler
Destroy That Boy!

SOUNDTRACKS

Girl, Interrupted
Six Ways to Sunday
Still Breathing

Fancy Friends

SONGS

A Summer Morning
Are You Lonesome Like Me?
Come on Up
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Forgetting
Here Comes the Judge
Hide and Seek
Hold Me
Hold My Hand
Hold On I'm Comin'
I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
I Don't Want Another Man
I Won't Run
(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
I've Been Workin' on You
[Instrumental]
Is This a Dream?
It's Magic
Jaguar Jimmy
Leslie
Look in My Eyes
Love Love Love
Movin'
Never My Love
Now I Care
Now I Need You
Run That Thru Your Mind
Six O'Clock In The Morning
Spooky
Summertime
Theme
Time Slips By
To Be In Love
The Warmth of Your Smile
You Can't Do That
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Without You

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