The Duettes -- Barbara Livsey (a.k.a. Barbara Bates) and Mary Francis Hayes -- were two Chicago teens that recorded for the George Leaner family of labels. Duettes recordings appeared on M-Pac, One-derful, and Mar-V-Lus Records, with Otha Otis Hayes, Andre Williams, Verlie Rice, Monk Higgins, and others supplying the material. Despite magnetism and solid sounds they never enjoyed a chart record, or even a regional breakout. Their recording career began with Mister Steel in 1963, followed by Move on Down the Line and I'm Gonna Love You in 1964 -- all on M-Pac. Leaner switched them to the One-derful label for Lonely Days, with Please Forgive Me, riding shotgun; a final single, Sugar Daddy, dropped on Mar-V-Lus Records in 1965. Lonely Days appeared a second time on Lost Nite Records in 1965 but didn't do any better than the previous attempt. No more Duettes recordings were released, though Barbara Livsey-Bates surfaced in 1970 as Barbara the Uniques. ~ Andrew Hamilton, Rovi