Dorothy Jones, Earl-Jean McCree, and Margaret Ross, from Brooklyn, collectively known as The Cookies, made their public debut at The Apollo Theatre Harlem, on Amateur Night, and won the contest, from there they signed to Atlantic. While at Atlantic Neil Sedaka took an interest in them, and used them, unaccredited, on some of his early RCA hit's, they also backed Little Eva on almost all of her records from The Locomotion onwards, and they are also the girls on Mel Torme's big Mod hit Comin' Home Baby. The Cookies had some successes when they moved to Dimension Records, and Earl-Jean McCree also had a minor Mod hit, as Earl-Jean, with I'm Into Something Good on the Colpix label, the song, copied note for note, made the career of Poon, front man in Herman's Muppets.

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