Chinese American Eyes: National Fortune Cookie Day (Music to Someone’s Ears)

Thursday, July 20, 2023

National Fortune Cookie Day (Music to Someone’s Ears)

July 20 is the first of two National Fortune Cookie Days. The next one is on September 13.

Top Center: Joanne Lee; Bottom, left to right: Joann Lee, Sue Jean Lee and Rose Lee

In the book, Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century, the group was identified as follows: “The Fortune Cookies, 1965 (top: Joanne Lau; bottom, left to right: Rose Lau, Sue Jean Lee, and Joann Lee)”.

Lyrics by Philip Barr and Sol Meschel. Barr was a music teacher at Lee’s high school.

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The Fortune Cookies

It Should Have Been Me

A Girl in Love

Cash Box, August 14, 1965, Smash Records: The Fortune Cookies

KRLA Beat, August 21, 1965, page 14: The Fortune Cookies, a cute female vocal group, have a smash in the making for their first release on Smash records titled “It Sould [sic] Have Been Me”.

Billboard, December 25, 1965

Discogs, The Fortune Cookies

45cat, The Fortune Cookies

Rate Your Music, It Should Have Been Me / A Girl in Love

WFMU, Crayons to Perfume with GlynisGirlGroup Girl: Playlist from February 26, 2020

The Mercury Labels: The 1964–1969 Era, Michel Ruppli, Ed Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993

Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century: Oral Histories of First-to Fourth-generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos

Joann Faung Jean Lee

New Press, 2008

page 107: The Fortune Cookies

Gems: Twenty original songs of love and heartbreak, featuring the classic 60’s girl group sound. (no date)

Side one, track three: The Fortune Cookies ‘A Girl in Love’