Paper Dolls

The Paper Dolls were a late 1960s British female vocal trio from Northampton, comprising lead vocalist Susie 'Tiger' Mathis, Pauline 'Spyder' Bennett and Sue 'Copper' Marshall. They were one of the few British girl groups of the late sixties. Each member of the group had a nickname, similar to the Spice Girls three decades later. Career "Something Here in My Heart" Signed to Pye Records, Paper Dolls had one solitary success. The song "Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A Tellin' Me No)", which was their debut single, and was written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod, reached Number 11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1968. The Dolls also recorded another Macaulay/Macleod hit composition "Baby Take Me in Your Arms." The enduring image of the Paper Dolls, as seen on Top of the Pops, was inescapably that of three young women in miniskirts, the popularity and brevity of which were at their height at the time. The name of the group was suggestive of "dolly birds", a rather impersonal term which, in the 1970s journalist Christopher Booker associated with "girls [being] transformed into throwaway plastic objects".