High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is the name of a 1963 hit by the Jaynetts, a Bronx-based one-hit wonder girl group, released by J & S Records on the Tuff label.The producer of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" Abner Spector was an A & R man for the Chicago-based Chess Records. Spector was responsible for the Corsairs' 1962 #12 hit "Smoky Places" which had been released on Tuff a subsidiary of J & S Records. In the summer of 1963 Spector asked J & S owner Zelma "Zell" Sanders to assemble a vocal ensemble to record a girl group style record to which end Sanders wrote the song "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" with Spector's wife Lona Stevens, drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie."