Contents
- 1 Career
- 2 Band
members
- 3 Songs
- 4 Album
- 5 Reference
Career
They had three major hits in the UK
Singles Chart, all of them bubblegum pop classics: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"
(Number
1), "Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum" (Number 2) and "Soley Soley" (Number 5),
all in 1971. But in other European countries, their success continued
well into 1972 and 1973, with songs like "Sacramento (A Wonderful
Town)", "Samson and Delilah", "Bottom's Up" and "The Talk of All the
USA".
Band members
- Their enigmatic percussionist / lead vocalist was:
Sally Carr (born Sarah Cecilia Carr, 28 March 1945, in Muirhead,
Lanarkshire)
- Drummer
Ken Andrews (born Kenneth Andrew Ballentyne, 28 August 1946, in Bearsden, Glasgow, Strathclyde)
Drummer for Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep was Bob Hamilton
- Guitarist
/ flautist
Ian Campbell-Lewis (born Ian McCreadie, 15 July 1947, in Partick, Glasgow, Strathclyde)
- Bassist
/ vocalist Eric Campbell-Lewis (born Eric McCreadle, 17 June 1949, in Partick, Glasgow, Strathclyde)
All band members were ex Part Four, Los Caracas.
Songs
Some notable songs by Middle of the Road include:
- "Soley Soley"
- "Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum"
- "Kailakee Kailakoo"
- "I Can't Tell the Bottom from the Top"
- "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"
- "Louise (My Little Ship)"
- "The Talk of All the USA"
- "Sacramento (A Wonderful Town)"
- "Yellow River" (not to be confused with the Christie
single,
released at a similar time)
- "Yellow Boomerang"
- "Try A Little Understanding"
- "Samson and Delilah"
- "Queen Bee"
- "Medicine Woman"
- "Love Sweet Love"
- "Honey No"
- "Bottom's Up"
- "Union Silver"
Album
- Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - (1972) - RCA
Records
Reference
