[2][3] Huey "Cookie" Thierry (born in Roanoke, Louisiana, August 13, 1936 – September 23, 1997)[4] joined in 1952, and shared lead vocals and tenor sax with Dunaway.

[2] Other original members were Sidney "Hot Rod" Reynaud (tenor sax), Marshall Laday or LeDee (guitar), Ernest Jacobs (piano), Joe "Blue" Landry (bass) and Ivory Jackson (drums).

[8] They followed up with a number of highly regarded but less commercially successful singles in the early 1960s, including "Belinda", "Betty and Dupree", and "Got You on My Mind"; the latter reached the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1963.

[9] In August 1965, Thierry moved to Los Angeles to work outside the music industry,[4] leaving the Cupcakes to continue without him.

Thierry was rediscovered in the early 1990s and played at occasional blues festivals, reunited with the rest of the band, until his death in 1997.