For Tourists: 1965 New York Chinatown

Deluxe Picture Book: New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Next post on Wednesday: Mid-Century Mandarin: The Clay Canvases of Tyrus Wong)

Flower Drum Song, November 1965

Valley Music Hall
North Salt Lake, Utah
November 1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carousel Theatre
West Covina, California
November 1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 (Next post on Wednesday: Flower Drum Song, February and June 1966)

Flower Drum Song, April, July and August 1965

Fabulous Las Vegas
April 10, 1965

see box at bottom of page 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabulous Las Vegas
July 17, 1965

see box at bottom of page 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Muny
St. Louis, Missouri
August 9–15, 1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Next post on Wednesday: Flower Drum Song, November 1965)

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. 

The Fortune Cookies publicity still

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. 

YouTube

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’

Groovy Tuesdays, Gems Volume 1—Girl Group Anthology 

Doo-Wops from the Smash Archives Volume #1, track 21: A Girl in Love—Fortune Cookies

MORE RECORDINGS

“Hey Jackie”

Ben Fong-Torres and the Fortune Cookies

Carousel Records

“Young Brothers”

Ben Fong-Torres and the Fortune Cookies

Carousel Records

“Moo Goo Gai Pan or How I Found Love in a Fortune Cookie Factory”

“John Goldfarb, Please Come Home” (1965) film promotion

20th Century Fox Records

“A Man and a Woman”

The Fortune Cookies

Swingphonic Records

“Toy Balloons”

The Fortune Cookies

Swingphonic Records

“The Great American Fortune Cookie”

Rick Kershaw

Columbine Records

“Fortune Cookie”

The Mad Planets

Elbo Head Records, 1990

The Cucumbers

Zero Hour, 1994

(Next post on Wednesday: Howard Lee and the New Chinatown Souvenir Photograph Folders)