Raelets

[a30552]’s female backing singers. Also credited as The Raelets or The Raeletts.
Ray Charles formed the Raelets in 1958 by recruiting two members from [a=The Cookies] [a2117299] and [a294681] with two more women [a776141] and [a776145].
Since then the group has had many members come and go, among them artists such as [a=Edna Wright] and [a=Mable John], Minnie Riperton, Merry Clayton, Clydie King of the Blackberries, and latter-day Supreme Susaye Greene.