Betty & the Belrays March 30, 2007

It's 1963, Detroit. Betty Belarosky, aganist her parents' wishes, forms an all white girl group, a la the Ronnettes, to get a record deal at Soltown, a black record company. Can Betty bring a segregated city together through her music? She ventures to the Negro side of town where a Miss Loretta Jones, an oldtime soul singer, decides to coach the girls not only about singing, but about the Civil Rights Movement. As the girls climb up the charts their music starts to incorporate some of the things that Miss Loretta has taught them. After an appearance on a popular television show, 'Music Today U.S.A,' Betty & The Belrays are offered a major record deal from a white label, but they will have to stop singing about racial issues. When they return home the girls are faced with hate mail from their own communities. Should they stop singing about racial issues and sing for the white record label?