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This article is about the girl group of the 1960s. For other uses, see Paper Doll (disambiguation) . The Paper Dolls were a late 1960s , British Female Vocal Trio , from Northampton ; appearing some years before similar Recording Acts such as Bananarama and Atomic Kitten became commonplace. Anticipating the Spice Girls , each member of the group had a Nickname . CAREER ''Something Here in My Heart'' Signed to Pye Records , Lead Vocalist Susie 'Tiger' Mathis, Pauline 'Spyder' Bennett and Sue 'Copper' Marshall had one solitary success. The Song , " Something Here In My Heart (Keeps A-Tellin’ Me No) ", which was their début Single , and was Written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod , reached Number 11 in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 . The enduring image of the Paper Dolls, as seen, for example, on BBC Television 's '' Top Of The Pops '', was inescapably that of three young women in Miniskirt s, the popularity and brevity of which were at their height at the time. Moreover, the name of the group was itself suggestive of "dolly birds", a rather impersonal term which, in the 1970s, journalist Christopher Booker associated with "girls {Link without Title} transformed into throwaway plastic objects".Christopher Booker (1979) ''The Seventies'' Follow-up releases Several follow-ups, notably "My Life (Is In Your Hands)" and "Someday", failed to Chart . Their greatest disappointment came when their Producer s arranged for them to Record another Macaulay co-composition "Build Me Up Buttercup" later that year. Due to a misunderstanding they never turned up for the session, and instead the Song was given to The Foundations , whose version became a Transatlantic smash Hit . The Paper Dolls released one Album , ''Paper Dolls House'' in 1968, which was re-issued with bonus tracks on CD in 2001. Originally it contained a Cover Version of The Beach Boys ' song " Darlin' "; whilst the latter version contained had a previously unreleased cover of the Paul McCartney penned, "Step Inside Love". In 1970 they signed to RCA . But two further singles, yet another cover, this time of The Angels ' " My Boyfriend's Back "; plus the more original "Remember December"; went unnoticed, and the trio split up. Thus they remain as One-hit Wonder s. AFTER THE SPLIT
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