MARCIE & THE COOKIES
All Or Nothing
(Pam Sawyer - Lori Burton)
Australia 1968
#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.

Marcie & The Cookies were a popular vocal group, often on TV and on tour at home and abroad. They were Marcie Jones with sisters Margaret, Beverley and Wendy Cook.

Marcie & The Cookies are heard on Russell Morris's classic hit The Real Thing.

See also Marcie Jones - Armed And Extremely Dangerous (1973).

 Further reading: 1. Marcie & The Cookies at Wikipedia. 2. MarcieJones.com 3. Marcie Jones's current resumé at entertainOZ.

Suggested by Mike Anderson. Thanks also to Terry Stacey.
PATTI LABELLE & THE BLUEBELLES
All Or Nothing
(Pam Sawyer - Lori Burton)
USA 1965
Original version

Single on Atlantic 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).
THE SMALL FACES
All Or Nothing
(Steve Marriott - Ronnie Lane)
UK 1966
Red herring
#1 UK #46 Adelaide #15 NZ

Same title but not the same song as 'All Or Nothing' by Marcie & The Cookies.
MILLI VANILLI
All Or Nothing
(Farian - Nail - Wilder)
Germany 1990
Red herring
#4 UK #43 Sydney #40 Adelaide #53 Perth

Same title but not the same song as 'All Or Nothing' by Marcie & The Cookies.
CHER
All Or Nothing
(Paul Barry - Mark Taylor)
USA 1999
Red herring
#12 UK #45 Melbourne

Same title but not the same song as 'All Or Nothing' by Marcie & The Cookies.

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