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Cookie & The Cupcakes
12+ albums
swamp poprhythm and bluesclassicbluesrnb
about
Cookie an the Cupcakes originally started as The Boogie Ramblers, led by Shelton Dunaway. Huey "Cookie" Thierry (Roanoke, Louisiana, August 16, 1936 – September 23, 1997, Lake Charles, Louisiana) joined the band in 1952, and shared lead vocals and tenor sax with Dunaway. Other original members were Sidney "Hot Rod" Reynaud (tenor sax), Marshall Laday (or LeDee) (guitar), Ernest Jacobs (piano), Joe "Blue" Landry (bass) and Ivory Jackson (drums). The band was based in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They started playing in 1953 as the house band at the Moulin Rouge Club in Lake Charles, LA. In 1955, the Boogie Ramblers released "Cindy Lou" and "Such As Love" on Goldband Records. They became a popular regional live act, and toured with big names like Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino. In 1956, Cookie began being the band's front man and the name of the band was changed to "Cookie and the Boogie Ramblers." Soon after, the band was changed to its final name after hearing it shouted in jest from an audience. In 1957, they recorded their signature song 'Mathilda' for Judd Records. After initial struggles to get the song recorded they were able to use KAOK's studio. The record rose to #47 on the Billboard pop chart in early 1959, and is regarded as the unofficial anthem of the swamp pop genre. They followed up with a number of highly regarded but less commercially successful singles in the early 1960s, including "Belinda", "Betty and Dupree", and "Got You on My Mind", the latter reached The
