The Cookies - Chains free for downloading

This song played a significant role in Rush's drummer, Neil Pearts, interest in pursuing a path in music as he heard it often on his transistor radio back in the 60's when he was a kid. Cool.

I work at IHOP and they play this song a lot in the waiting area for the customers to listen to and I always enjoy singing to it in my head.

So glad to know the leading singer Margaret she is my neighbor. Very sweet lady and her voice is just as powerful today as it was then!!!

This song is a masterpiece

the harmonies are so good

Dear Cookies : How did you feel when The Beatles covered your song? I’d love to hear your stories and your own recollections about recording this beautiful song.

Love this song the cookies are great singers♡♡♡

My girlfriend Janet gave me this back in the early sixties I was fifteen.

Another ingenious Goffin/King-Song. No accident it was honored by a cover by the Beatles!

Another Carole King gem sung by a wonderful bunch of young ladies. Can't beat this kind of pop music, it still sounds great 50, 60, or more years later!

"I still remember the first song that galvanized me. 'Chains', a simple pop tune by one of those girl groups, with close harmonies syncopated over a driving shuffle. No great classic or anything, but as I listened to that song on my transistor, suddenly I understood. This changed everything." - Neil Peart

This record sounds as good today as ever. It has a very crisp, clear arrangement of simple, but ear-catching interplay between guitar and drums. The drummer is particularly good on this track. Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote a great tune and The Cookies delivered the vocal magic. It is my favorite record by the group, although the follow-up, the sexy, slightly snarling"Don't Say Nothin' (Bad About My Baby") actually was a bigger hit in my area in the Midwest. "Will Power" did not do quite as well, as I recall, but is certainly another well-written Carole King song. All of the radio hits at that time were of course aimed at young ears and teens,but I would not classify "Chains" as a "bubblegum" record at all. (I would consider certain other records from the era like "Palisades Park", "My Boy Lollipop", or "Party Lights" to fall more under that category, as they don't even pretend to lyrically speak from an adult angle..) "Chains" remains a highly coverable song, and the Beatles took note and did their own version. It was originally released on Dimension Records, same label as "The Locomotion" by Little Eva; I have heard The Cookies did the back-up vocals on that smash hit.

no the Cookies was first with this song, Beatles made a cover of it

The musical beautiful brought me here

this is what music should be like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!