They were an outgrowth of several jam sessions that also included, at various times, Bernie Kugel (The Good, Mystic Eyes), and Dee Pop (Gun Club, Bush Tetras).
The band played regularly at Maxwell's and were a central part of the early 1980s Hoboken music scene.
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau called them "easily the best of En Why's Pop Three on stage [the other two being the Bongos and the dB's], scruffy and forceful and lithe".
It was voted one of the best EPs of 1981 in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll.
After The Wygals split up, Doug played on albums by Wanda Jackson, Laura Cantrell, Amy Rigby, Wreckless Eric and others.