The Cookies, "I Never Dreamed"
Heat and Dust
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Merchant and Ivory’s India-set films tend to rip out my heart and stomp on
it—in a good way. Two years ago I wrote about Shakespeare-Wallah for
Switcheroo ...
20 hours ago
2 comments:
Nice! I've never heard of these ladies.
Glad you like it, Dave. These girls worked as a sort of in-house Brill Building backup group, singing backing vocals on a lot of big hits for other artists, including "The Locomotion". They had a handful of moderate chart hits of their own during the early sixties, but have since seemed to have gotten lost in the girl group shuffle somewhat, and aren't so well remembered. Still, I think this is one of the most lovely songs to come out of the girl group era. Oh, and also the best pop song ever... until next week.
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