Girls Next Door are an American country music vocal group formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1982.
The group consists of vocalists Doris King Merritt, Cindy Nixon Psanos, Diane Williams Austin, and Tammy Stephens Smith.
West was a friend of session vocalist Doris King, and suggested that she form an all-female vocal group due to the concept being uncommon in country music at the time.
[1] All four of the members had met through mutual connections at Opryland USA, a former theme park in Nashville, Tennessee, which often employed musicians to perform there.
[2] They originally wanted to call themselves Belle and Wildflower, but after finding that other groups existed with those names, West suggested "Girls Next Door" after a song he wrote.