What Happened to Wilson Phillips? (The Greatest Girl Group You Never Heard Of)

[@jgmusic97]

What is your favorite Wilson Phillips song?

[@marietellez6021]

Hold on!!

[@jetleeluzon1136]

Impulsive

[@iansands8315]

You wont see me cry. Harmonic mastery.

[@vincentmaloba2290]

Hold on!❤

[@brucea9871]

Eyes like twins. Initially I didn't like it very much; my favorite was Release me. But after listening to Eyes like twins a few times I got to like it more.

[@beckystarrski]

‘Hold On’ is literally a Freaking MASTERPIECE‼️ Anyone who is a gen-x or a millennial even, who was old enough to remember the 1st time hearing this classic nostalgic song & how it made you feel! It made you feel better about situations (too mny) you were going through. Even silly ones like at 12yrs old when you think your life is over. Oh I’d give anything to go back to a normal world in the 90’s! It was so beautiful to have experienced it! If you know you know. Thx for sharing this.✌🏼

[@misterlexx2721]

I am Gen X. Tail part 1980. I was 10 and remember. It was a big hit.

[@galanie]

Gen X? Hell, Im a boomer and loved them! My kids are gen x lol.

[@annelizebritnor6715]

Her Music 🎶 is now being used for Gospel.🙏

[@randomcitizen3773]

It still does this. lol.

[@samj5183]

Their harmonies in release me are breathtaking

[@tudorrosey76]

I loved these women! They were a great group and I still have their first CD!

[@Nic-du6xe]

Hold on is a miracle song it helped many people through very dark and rough times. I am so grateful this song was written. Bit sad it was labelled as a wedding movie song later most of the teenagers of that generation will remember how the song got us through the tough days.

[@Tony1771-yj8mc]

Yeah, I was in college at the time and other students used that song to lift their spirits when it was tough for them.

[@WBCRO]

I’ve loved this group from the get-go and never tire of hearing their amazing harmonies. They also released an excellent Christmas album in 2010 called “Christmas in Harmony “ and their version of “Silent Night” gives me chills.

[@icerag]

Hold On is pure nostalgia. It transports you to that moment you first heard it being played, the sights, and even the emotion you felt. It will continue to stand the test of time.

[@LindaWilliams-v3i]

Thank you very much for the Wilson Phillips story. It was great to understand their plight and "Hold On" is an exceptional song. Loved watching the video as could actually feel every word. I so believe in - Holding on for One More Day as for me I have been doing this for the last 4 years after my husband left after 27 years. Thanks again for sharing their story. ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙋🙋

[@billiewright3577]

Absolutely loved these ladies. Wilson Phillips helped me keep my mind straight while I was in the Navy during Desert Storm. Now when I hear them all those same feelings, of that time, comes back like it was yesterday. I don’t listen to them much because I don’t want to lose those feelings and memories. I listen to them when I feel I need a lift.

[@brucea9871]

I still have their first album and I bought it for the song "Release me" which was initially my favorite song by them. But after listening to the album for a while my favorite became a song I initially didn't like; "Eyes like twins". I'm surprised you didn't mention this song (perhaps it didn't do well enough on the charts for you to do so). I think I didn't like it at first because of the opening but after listening to the whole song a few times I really started to like the latter parts. And a few years ago I heard a story about them you didn't mention. One of the women gained a lot of weight (as we can see in the video) and she went for weight loss surgery. This was just before one of their concerts and she was unable to go because she was still recovering from the surgery. Yet she hadn't told the other two women in the group she planned to have the surgery. Incidentally I'm glad you mentioned the Spice Girls. Initially I completely ignored them; I thought it was a band only little girls would like. But when their first concert in Istanbul was televised out of curiousity I recorded and watched it and I was shocked; I actually liked a lot of their songs and they became my favorite group. I should also mention a girl group you didn't refer to in which they actually played their own instruments; the Go-Go's. But perhaps the band is a bit too far in the past for you to bring it up.

[@sarrjel]

They should’ve had, like, five albums. I enjoyed their music and was sad that they broke up. Very talented women.

[@LifeChanges41595]

Hold On, is their signature song and my favorite. ❤️

[@michaelcooper4320]

Thank you so much for sharing the answers. The are one of the top female groups. So Hope they get back and stay together when they belong. Such strong talents.

[@artangeloymana1625]

I miss Wilson Phillips songs . . . It's soothing.

[@jenniferlindsay103]

I remember hearing Hold on on the radio when it first came out. Good song.

[@raygunromance772]

They were everywhere in 90/91 Absolutely part of my musical DNA

[@tedbearfudge]

Never get tired on 'Hold on'

[@Jruth68]

I will be seeing the Wilsons perform with their dad in a week. Two legendary bands together.

[@Willies_Copper_Kitchen]

Those years 89 to 92 not for sure I would still be part of this earth without that C.D. I did hold on ! 17 then 49 now still love them.

[@CSAFD]

Wendy is still a babe. Had such a crush on her in high school in 1991.

[@Tony1771-yj8mc]

I remember when they were huge. They suddenly came out of no where and were on pop radio frequently. People around me commenting on how well their voices melded together. Then just as suddenly, they vanished and were gone.

[@seasidedreaming]

Hold on ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@franzchong4688]

I remembered in Australia when hold on knocked mc hammers you can’t touch this off top spot in the music charts this time 33 years ago.

[@valbarnett2861]

Excellent!! I love these girls! Wishing they could do a come back album! I catch Chynna on her KZbin channel and she interviewed her mom, Michele! Such a class act!❤️❤️❤️

[@jaradaniels9289]

I loved them. Wendy was my absolute favorite, i thought she was so pretty. She still is too

[@BraveStars]

Always wondered, now i know. Thank you!

[@rubiconnz1754]

Enjoyed this !

[@jgmusic97]

Thanks

[@Peggygoldenadolph]

Great information.

[@sherineill6630]

Great video

[@christophergardiner5351]

They still perform here and there. Recently, I saw a billboard for one at a casino near where I live.

[@vegasdutch]

Hold On came out the year I graduated college. Epic song. Ironically, part of it was filmed in the San Jacinto Mountains above Palm Springs and Hemet. I moved to Idyllwild a bit later.

[@exposethenwo6491]

I haven't forgotten them 🎉

[@philoaviaticus]

So wonderful a group. Sad they gone.

[@jgmusic97]

I never said they were gone

[@VC-mo5yg]

I love their Christmas album!

[@yvonnegomez3222]

I love them and love this song always

[@busterboyist]

Chynna's debut solo album was called Naked and sacred not Naked and scared.

[@lamarravery4094]

Love these ladies, they were beautiful and were the offspring of the Beach Boys and Mamas and the Papas, great harmonizing vocals. And Wendy and Carnie's mother, Brian Wilson's wife, was part of a vocal girl group called the Honeys when she was their age.

[@Filmation77]

Let's be honest: The Vocal Harmonies of that group were on Point. BUT their greatest strength and Greatest weakness was, they were NEVER Hip and NEVER Cool. They came out "Adult Contemporary " as soon as they came out. HOLD ON sounds musically very Christian and also MTV at that time still need Music Content. So it's no surprise it hit no 1

[@jerryratliff4658]

They were awesome and gorgeous to

[@ricktimmons5438]

need more song, plese

[@janetgood6332]

My boyfriend at the time was the uber cool college radio station DJ. He (gently) mocked my mainstream taste in music. But "Hold On" came on the radio while we were in the car, and he got a little glazed over and said "there are a lot of people who need to hear this song".

[@jgmusic97]

Glazed?

[@janetgood6332]

@@jgmusic97 it's an expression, indicating a far away wistful expression. Perhaps a little teary eyed.

[@theelaps]

You're in love,release me, and hold on

[@jgmusic97]

Basically all of them

[@theelaps]

I just love their songs

[@DefLeppardFanGirl]

I ❤ all there songs

[@carlv1379]

Carnie said in an interview that once they had recorded a few songs, record studios became very interested and there was a bidding war to sign them. They are performing together now and then and there are clips on Chynna's KZbin channel.

[@exposethenwo6491]

Release Me was #1 song this week in 1990

[@christinavieting9535]

It would be nice to see them try again

[@annbrown3769]

My favorite song is hold.on

[@VC-mo5yg]

The girls are still going strong!

[@AndrewLoganJameson]

My favorite part was when you said “that’s none of my business.” Glad you know your place.

[@davidcarlin3850]

Wendy is a Goddess

[@Me-xj6wx]

So beautiful

[@SueKlein-r2u]

They had harmaney, which you don't see or hear today. I just love these girls. They put women to shame today. ❤❤

[@chrisevans9688]

Chris Evans now that you can find it in now me 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 good live so you girls out now and see if you need me soon thanks you

[@robbiemckenzie7822]

I wish wendi and carnie would have done more solo. Love Chynnas solo album

[@latrailjones]

Not naked an scared😂😂 screamin.. Anyhoo.. I had that cd.. Still bump it.. It's called naked and sacred boo

[@d.m.westdorp8741]

actually hold on first, in that time I had to hold on.....each day, watched it for the first time on a small black and white air antenna tv (9 inch that's how the situation was)

[@thomasmagnum3588]

I just have to believe they had very poor management! To release such a dark, depressing sophomore album more than two years after your first one had gone 5 x platinum and spawned three number one hits? Who told them that was a good idea?

[@jgmusic97]

I agree, I think they alienate their fan base with their sophomore album

[@franzchong4688]

Great music but sadly the timing of the second album didn’t help things.most of the world had gone grunge in. 1992/1993.it would be at least late nineties going into the noughties we would see a new age girl band of any kind.

[@philliplandry4139]

@@franzchong4688 True, it's seem Grunge knocked everything off the map. If Grunge wouldn't came along, it seems AOR was gonna dominate the early 90's.

[@troycharbonneau8643]

I think a lot of it was why many bands split up. Their entire lives before that, making music was a fun hobby. Then it became a job that sucked the enjoyment out of it. The rigors of touring, writing, recording, etc. just took its toll on them.

[@jamiemineer4879]

I know women who can sing circles around these girls, it goes to show often times it’s about who you know

[@josefranciscoV]

naked and sacred… not scared hehehehe

[@patrickmcgrath5411]

THANK YOU BRIAN WILSON FOR HAVING SUCH GREAT DAUGHTERS ❣️

[@marywealth6475]

And John Phillips?

[@SirStarGazer00]

Wilson Phillips is my favorite group of the 90s. Who said that I didn't know of them?

[@MichaelNxumalo-s8p]

Hold on.

[@tacmon29]

Hold on

[@jgmusic97]

OKAY, I GET IT, ITS NAKED AND SACRED NOT SCARED!!!!

[@tomjones5650]

Brians Girls have the Wilson Musical Genes.

[@yvonnegomez3222]

These women work very hard for this

[@Tawadeb]

Wilson phillips still sings today

[@CSAFD]

They did a great remake of Fleetwood Mac "go your own way" in 2004

[@marcosmadeiros9553]

Love the shout out to En Vogue. Certainly a superior song to anything Wilson Phillips released.

[@d.m.westdorp8741]

Impulsive, hold on, release me

[@beachlife4704]

Never heard of Wilson Phillips? Who hasn't heard of Wilson Phillips?

[@jgmusic97]

A lot of people hasn't, this video helps with that

[@Caprizonica]

I have heard of them. Who hasn't? Well you, obviously.

[@beachlife4704]

@@Caprizonica Who are you talking to?

[@franzchong9315]

Anyone born during the 90s would have never heard of them.

[@marywealth6475]

​​@beachlife4704 Caprizonica was probably talking to you, but only because they don't have any reading comprehension.

[@scottbrowning4553]

While Wilson Phillips is not my favorite musical group of all time, I do respect them. All three members have been able to write fine music and maintain relatively healthy and productive lives in spite of all the trials and tribulations that they faced. I wish Chynna Phillips, Carnie Wilson, and Wendy Wilson nothing but the very best.

[@RVZNKaraoke]

Hmmm... "Naked and Scared" is not the same as "Naked and Sacred"

[@lsh1631]

Still performing

[@owfluffyfan1317]

They recorded cover of Boyfriends, a Harry Styles song

[@PeterMorice-iu4sh]

So yes they broke up but you also got to think that Wendy had 4 kids over that time period two of which were twins . So she had 3 pregnancies over that period. And carnie had one child as well

[@zorakzoltan5816]

The Bangles own Wilson Phillips!!!

[@jerramaurice7836]

They needs a bio movie

[@osteomatt1]

Why do so many providers insist on asking in the 1st minute or 2 us to subsride and like. ? Only seen 2 minutes I Don know at that point I I like the content and certainly won't know yet I I would subscribe . Its something that annoys me about many content makers.

[@Caprizonica]

They were The Sheep n Masked Singer. Almost won.

[@sarahball-ruck846]

Did you clear this content w/the group members?

[@jgmusic97]

Just did this video to show my love for them and to make sure no one forgot about them

[@kyachdistent1301]

OMG, producers saying 'Hold On' is corny and it won't go anywhere. PER-LEEASSEE, that's ALL America usually makes. The ghastly likes of Starship (Starsh*t more like), noisy embarrassments of Bon Jovi, bubblegum tripe of slagdonna the vile, disgusting weepy soppy burblings of Pariah Carey, Celine Dion, even Whitney Houston. Tina Turner does the same kind of stuff to a fake rock score that does not disguise its desperate shortcomings, America went crazy over that diabolical "Dirty Dancing soundtrack", they love soppy Diana Ross records, the bloody old 'Lift Goes Up Where We Belong'-the list goes on! Pure hypocrisy. In fact, I was excited to know 'Hold On' wasn't about love, but coming off drugs. How is THAT corny? All the above is corny and then some-usually awful. The fact that it debuted at No.74 is a big deal, that is one big chart! I don't get how this comment then goes quiet once it hits the top spot. So clearly, if they were right about it corny, it IS clear that the US loves corny (well I've just proved that, surely). Ironically, the last 2 singles taken off the debut album ARE corny, even soppy; the last being a truly bad choice for single over far better on the album), but apparently once you're established, it's okay to BE corny then! Proving record labels are as clueless as they've always been. Now the 2nd album, despite being described as more personal, even bleak, comes off as more sentimental, soppy, self-indulgent and an air of trying too hard, Plus no one has any idea of what to release of it, with 'Give It Up' being the only noteworthy single, all the other best ones stuck on the disc. It's as if they tried too hard to be personal and get it across (with a trowel), that any idea of commercial choices with kick or lushness: 'It's Only Life', 'Don't Take Me Down', 'Where Are You' and 'This Doesn't Have To Be Love'-totally went by them all! Oh well. For 3 years in the 90s, they mattered. And unlike all others, they harmonise together so beautifully, a rare gift too often accepted as easily done-don't be stupid!

[@JCin-s9h]

Compare the present day facial features of Chynna Philips, (see her on the Kelly Clarkson show) and Maureen McCormack. In their younger years they looked nothing like each other, both pretty damn cute. As they aged, their facial features changed dramatically. They, their facial features, are such that they look like they could be sisters. Ridden hard and put away wet. Was it the chemical use (abuse) they both went through? I was a good looking guy in my teens and twenties. Now (mid 70's) when I look in the mirror, I find myself thinking ...WHAT HAPPENED ? Answer, I GOT OLD! Some people grow old gracefully. Many of us, not so much.

[@chiz7788]

“Hold on" would probably lasts for the next three decades😊

[@jgmusic97]

Nah 6 decades

[@barrystewart5946]

Never heard of if you live under a rock 🪨

[@kuxica]

Oh please En Vogue’s Hold on as beautiful as it was simply can’t compare to the meaning given by WP’s. Sorry that I have to disagree with your sentiment. Also Reread the name of Chynna’s Solo album carefully please. The album is entitled “Naked and Sacred”. Not Naked and scared.

[@kuxica]

I gotta admit- In my youth I’ve ALWAYS been a WilPhil “PHAN” but I realize that as I continue to hear the live performances, I have to ask myself what it is that made me really like listening to them to begin with. I don’t ever expect a perfect performance from any artists, however there is some basic level of intonation and accuracy and balance in their performances that even the deaf would understand that the three of them no longer blend as the recordings and albums suggest. I wish they would focus and give a little bit more of themselves when they do perform live. Otherwise they aren’t doing anyone or any remake justice. I do love WilPhil a great deal but someone needs to be honest and let them know. Otherwise they need to hide those KZbin clips in a vault where no one will be get see/ hear it again. Sigh…. I hope I’m not being rude with sharing my opinion.

[@mikelee3316]

I tried to get my wife to get her haircut the same as the “blonde” ….

[@stwesh1431]

Chynna is beautiful.

[@kyachdistent1301]

Crap names are thrown out, they don't count. While Bangles are obviously a band (unlike virtually every female group out there) and if the girl group ever connects to them, then Bangles are clearly Best Girl Group Ever, even if they had competition, which they ever did. This aside, Wilson Phillips were there one worst enemy alongside their management. While the 1st 3 singles were great choices, with, in my view, 'Release Me' being the best of the lot, and the album's best song, the 4th (which actually IS corny, never mind the 5th dreadful choice) wasn't. Sure it was a big hit, maybe cos it focused on Chynna again (always though her name was said 'Cheen-a'?), as did the bloody last one, but 'Over And Over', 'A Reason To Believe' (something who can actually sing doing it this time) and 'Next To You (Someday I'll Be)' are better choices, and 'Eyes Like Twins' is catchy, but points again at their tendency to get cheesy and sentimental, which really flares up on the 2nd album. And that album really killed them. While it's technically a good enough record, "Shadows And Light", unlike the Bangles' 2nd album, did not improve on their 1st (of course to be fair Bangles debut was even better than WP's, and did them a big favour by disbanding the year they appeared). Unlike the debut, with had the blazing 'Hold On' to start the career afire, they choice a rather limp, soppy ballad complete with awful cheesy daytime soap Sax interlude in the middle, and were bloody lucky that single got to where it did. The 2nd choice was much better, with Wendy on vocals, but the final single was an actually hurler of a choice, even worse than 'Dream Still Alive' 2 years back. Basically the best things on the 2nd album were almost all the liveliest ones. Ignoring the rather embarrassing 'Fuelled For Houston', this album's highest points were the electric 'It's Only Life' (THAT should have come off 1st!!), 'Give It Up' (the only single they got right), 'Don't Take Me Down' (another great Wendy classic), the disturbing 'Where Are You' (which is the right kind of moving) and the lovely ballad 'This Doesn't Have To Be Love'. All THESE should have been singles instead. Otherwise, while there's nothing terrible on the album, the others songs veer from catchy and moving in bits to steady stagnancy and irredeemable bits of soppiness and outright whining. After this they did not have the power to go on together, clearly their legacy is not as important as Bangles, but they must be the next best thing, though if Shakespears Sister are termed a girl group (though there's only two) they come before. After an okay but nothing special solo album from Chynna, which none the less has 2 truly fine songs on it in 'Remember Me' and 'Follow Love Down', with the 1st 2 singles being next. Otherwise it was a routine affair, with even more corny areas: titles like 'This Close', 'Till The End' and 'Jewel In My Crown' almost make you wanna hurl before you even begin listening, and there's one truly atrocious piece if yuck on it, of which the title says everything. Yes it's written by Diane Warren (which is warning enough) and it has hands-down one of the most disgusting titles a grown-up girl would ever have. So of COURSE they make it a single! Of course, only as bad as this, is the other two's horrible Christmas album. One Pariah Carey is more than bad enough thank you. And while the single 'Monday Without You' they did with their father from 1997 (though he sounds dreadful on it, just stop mate!), the band may as well not have got back together as all they're content to do now is wallow in typical US covers, and no original material whatsoever. Weirdly, from All Media Guide horror, Chynna's only solo album is actually reviewed better than the publication ever felt about their 2 original albums as a group, but of course, as with most records, All Media Guide are wrong. Nothing has been said about the UK here, but we took to Wilson Phillips well, but they were too good at the start to register properly with all their work. While we had exactly the same singles picked from both albums as in its parent country, 'You're In Love' had the brass gall to limp into the Top 30 barely, supplanting the best song on the album-'Release Me' by 7 places! And 'Impulsive' missed the Top 40, while the final needless release saw no success at all. The album itself performed strongly, reaching No.7 and charted for 32 weeks, and called one of the biggest selling debuts over here for some years in the 90s. The 2ns album bizzarely went a place higher, despite the dodgy choice of 1st single ballad release not rising above No.18 (lucky it got there), but unlike the debut, the album was out of the chart before the school Summer holidays had properly started. We typically treated Wendy's 2nd single as vocalist not much better than her 1st, but it did strike same placing as 'Release Me'. The final awful choice did not chart anywhere, just like their final debut album's choice. Interestingly enough, while Chynna's solo album did not achieve a chart placing anywhere apart from Australia (No.35), while its 1st 2 singles did well over there too, 'Naked And Sacred'-the single-did manage No.62 in the UK. it went 30 places higher in a bizarre move when some other unknown bird released it in 1998. Wilson Phillips had the potential to be so much more than what they made of their career, and haven't a parch on the Bangles' admittedly too short career, but stayed stronger over a much longer time. Nonetheless there's a stupid belief that any act's career is judged by how long they last; while staying power is important, most acts are lucky to even get one album of quality out there worth owning. The reality is most people last way too long, and often don't deserve even one song in the 1st place, never mind a recording contract for even one album! Wilson Phillips's debut remains, despite 2 weaker songs on it, one of 1990's best albums (and no En Vogue's 'Hold On'-same title for a totally different song) is not better than theirs) and their 2nd album is better than what many can manage, despite its even greater faults, so while they only remain a 2 album unit sadly, that still matters. And I'd never EVER compare the bullshite, candyfloss, manufactured garbage approach of Splice Girls and all their ilk (Hurl Aloud, All Faints, Non-Eternal) and all of that other stuff, even the soul-bores of the other types to Wilson Phillips, their legacy was short, but it is still set in stone, cos unlike all the following unnameable horrors, they actually mattered, and its grown up proper music, in fact the last time it was done as the 90s turned into hellish excreta, as would every decade following. Oh and Chynna's solo album, while the weakest cousin related to the 2 WP originals, it beats the shite out of anything that appalling barbie doll of blandness footballer's wife ex-infernal Eternal would ever do, she should have been thrown down a well at once. Bu then the mid-late 90s to the present day is all about mass-produced unchallenging garbage for idiots as pointless as the product.

[@akiracastillo]

Release me

[@franzchong4688]

That was also a great song but not something to play when on hold to the prison service 😂

[@ajwees41]

I heard of them lol

[@michaelfetty7295]

Um wilson phillips had several hits in 90’s, hardly never heard of

[@murder.simulator]

Loved that chili bowll haircut Chyna! Although they didn't last they had more than 1 hit on the charts. They're all still alive so you never know.

[@davidwilliams2403]

Chynna was luckier than McKenzie.

[@ralphbenthall3573]

Impulsive!

[@skypilot2627]

Holy Spirit Activate Holy Spirit Activate

[@ophelia5100]

Naked and scared?!! 😂

[@smallie210]

I dont think they should be in the greatest girl groups of all time as they only has 1 successful album. They should have stuck with the same them as their first album.

[@blcouch]

Never heard of? Maybe to people under 30.

[@nedergubis2638]

Ur in love❤

[@zaaldamyeoh9769]

Naked and sacred not scared..lol

[@NectarineSun]

“Never heard of”? 😂

[@redrust3]

Aging gracefully.