When are you comin' home....

As I've mentioned before, the classic line-up of Cookie and The Cupcakes involved two lead singers, Cookie Thierry and Shelton Dunaway.....and generally speaking, when Dunaway did the vocals the records were credited to Shelton Dunaway and the Cupcakes.

Thus, this is actually a "Cookie and the Cupcakes" record.

The song has nothing to do with the largely New Orleans based Popeye dance craze of the early sixties. Ya see, 'Popeye music' is markedly down-tempo and this tune is of course 'up-beat'.

"Cindy Lou", another song recorded several years earlier by the Cupcakes under the name 'Boogie Ramblers', is very similar and of course makes no mention of the Popeye. In short, any references to the Popeye were included purely for the sake of making regional sales.

That's gotta be the great Katie Webster on piano. Totally besides the point, but ya know, if there was ever a woman who grew more beautiful as she aged, it was Katie. Girl def had the life-force in her. I saw her play when I was about 15 and won't be forgetting anytime soon.

Hope ya'll enjoy...........

All around the world....

The discography for "Cookie and The Cup Cakes" does not make you think of a tightly structured band in the usual sense. Ya see, depending on how strict you wanna be, there are "Cup Cakes" 45's credited about ten different ways, often enough with 'top billing' given to the lead singer.

Ya know, like a revue [common enough at the time], a singer steps into the spotlight for awhile until the next singer comes forward to be featured. The Cup Cakes providing back-up for all of them. It's just that in this case, one of the lead singers is named Cookie Thierry, and "Cookie and His Cup Cakes" makes good marketing sense. That's the name they put on their hit, "Mathilda".

So, there are four 45's by "Shelton Dunaway and The Cup Cakes" [Dunaway being the other lead singer in the band], another by "Hot Rod Reynaud/Ernest Jacob and the Cup Cakes" [Reynaud and Jacob were band members], several credited as "Little Alfred and The Cup Cakes" [Little Alfred joined the band after Cookie left], one credited as "Little Alfred and Shelton", another as "Cookie and the Cup Cakes, featuring Little Alfred", even one with "Cookie and The Berry Cups" printed on the label [The Berry Cups were Little Alfred's band before he joined the Cup Cakes].

All of them issued on the Lyric/Khoury labels owned by George Khoury out of Lake Charles within a period of a very few years. In fact, you don't see the records credited consistently [as "Cookie and His Cup Cakes"] until after Cookie Thierry [and Dunaway?] had left the group.

Sorry about that, I just wanted to address some of the common confusion. I probably should've just said.....this is a "Cookie and The Cup Cakes" record, and let it go at that.

Hope ya'll enjoy....

[I decided the black background on the scans had to go]