The group formed as the vocal ensemble, the Echoes, in 1952, when the band members were enrolled in Edmond Meany Junior High School, and performed in a local teen club called the Strokers, among other venues.
Impressed, Wray became the band's first manager, buying them matching white outfits, and arranging performances at the Catholic Youth Organization --which were, at the time, some of the only teen dances allowed in Seattle.
After returning to Seattle, the band, under the billing Jimmy Pipkin and the Gallahads, released a third and final single, "This Letter To You" in 1962, but it was largely ignored.
[2] Pipkins continued to perform with a variation of line-ups under the Gallahads' name, and occasionally, the first time of which was 1974, the original members reunited.
Smith formed a R&B group called the Statics, which morphed into the psychedelic rock band, International Brick.