The Cookies

The cookies were an American girl singing group from Brooklyn, NY, which was mainly in the 1960s as a background choir in the " Brill Building", New York active.

The formation worked especially for Neil Sedaka and Carole King. This wrote with her ​​then-husband Gerry Goffin the hit The Loco -Motion for Little Eva - and the cookies were singing in the background.

The Team King / Goffin then wrote some songs for the cookies. The first success was the title chains, which reached number 17 in 1962 on the U.S. charts and was copied by the " Beatles". The next single Do not Say Nothin 'Bad (About My Baby ) made ​​it into the Top 10 in 1963, and with Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys was reached in 1964 again a front chart notation (33).

Earl -Jean McCree left after the group tried his hand as a soloist and publications include the song I'm Into Something Good, the first in the version of Herman's Hermits in 1964, however, should be a real hit (UK # 1 ).

"Cookies " also released songs under the pseudonyms " Honey Bees ", " Cinderella ", " Palisades " and " Stepping Stones ".

Members

• Dorothy Jones
• Margaret Ross
• Earl -Jean McCree