A one-time key member of the Vernons Girls, Samantha Jones bidded fair for stardom in her own right in early-'60s England -- some think she might even have been a potential rival to Dusty Springfield had things gone right -- but somehow she never made the cut. Born Jean Owen, she'd distinguished herself among the dozens of women who passed through the ranks of the Vernons Girls and had sung on all of the group's early-'60s hits for English Decca before exiting in 1964. Jones signed with United Artists and recorded in England with ex-Vernons Girls arrang...[more]