Marcie and The Cookies
Australian musical ensemble
Marcie & The Cookies were an Australian musical ensemble, made up of Marcie Jones (1945–2025) and the three Cook sisters. The all-girl, vocal-only group, were a rarity in Australia's "mod" music scene of the 1960s, dominated as it was by all-male rock bands and solo artists.
Personnel
Marcie Jones (vocals)
Beverley Cook (vocals)
Margaret Cook (vocals)
Wendy Cook (vocals)
History
Marcie Jones was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 26 June 1945. She started as a teenager with The Thunderbirds at Canterbury Ballroom and Preston Town Hall in Melbourne, Australia, in the early 1960s. She then went on to perform with Normie Rowe's band The Playboys and appeared on the "Go-Show". She issued five singles from 1965 to 1967 on the Sunshine label with some minor chart success.
1967–1972: Marcie and The Cookies
In 1967, on the suggestion of Normie Rowe, she teamed up with the Cook sisters (who were already performing as "The Cookies" ) in Brisbane. Marcie & The Cookies were in the mould of such U.S. acts as The Supremes and The Crystals. In early 1968 they came to the attention of "The Twilights" and "The Groove's" Manager Garry Spry, who was so impressed by them he became their manager. Spry got them a recording contract with EMI Music and put them with his all-powerful entertainment agency A.M.B.O. Within 12 months they had become widely known for Jones's powerful voice and the Cookies' superb vocal harmonies and their synchronised stage movements as a result of their appearances on national TV shows, particularly on the pop music The Go!!
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