Marcie & The Cookies - All Or Nothing (1968)

(Pam Sawyer - Lori Burton)
Australia
#2 Brisbane

Single on Columbia. In Brisbane, this was a double-sided hit with the B-side, I Would If I Could, which also charted in Melbourne in its own right.

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Marcie & The Cookies were a popular vocal group, often on TV and on tour at home and abroad. As session singers they are heard, for example, on Russell Morris’s classic hit The Real Thing and on Tony Worsley’s Something’s Got A Hold on Me (♫ YouTube).

Marcie Jones (1945–2025), from Melbourne, was already an experienced band singer and solo recording artist by 1967 when she joined with The Cookies, an established vocal trio of Brisbane sisters Margaret, Beverley and Wendy Cook.

Further reading: 1. Kimbo’s history of Marcie & The Cookies 2. Marcie & The Cookies at Wikipedia.

Suggested by Mike Anderson. Thanks also to Terry Stacey.

Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles - All Or Nothing (1965)

(Pam Sawyer - Lori Burton)
USA
Original version

Single on Atlantic, produced by Bert Berns, by r&b girl group formed in the early 60s. Bluebelles Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash went on with Patti LaBelle to become 70s disco/funk/glam group Labelle (Lady Marmalade, 1975, #1 USA), but another founding member, Cindy Birdsong, had left to replace Florence Ballard in The Supremes in the late 60s.

See Radio London Fab Forties 21 November 1965 for discussion of the correct form of the group's name.

New York songwriters and producers Pam Sawyer and Lori Burton also wrote The Rascals' I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart No More and Baby Let's Wait, the latter also recorded by The Royal Guardsmen (1968, #35 USA).