The Mama Cats

The Mama Cats were a girl group from Detroit that went on to become Honey Ltd., and subsequently Eve. The band came together in Detroit in the mid-60s when friends Laura Polkinghorne and Marsha Jo Temmer met sisters Alex and Joan Sliwin at Wayne State University. The four started singing together – mainly covers of the Motown hits being churned out of their home town – and by 1967 had formed a group that producer Punch Andrews named the Mama Cats.