hollywood: Chad and Jeremy

Sunday, 1 July 2012

Chad and Jeremy

Chad Stuart (10 December 1943, Durham, England; vocals, guitar, banjo, keyboards, sitar) and Jeremy Clyde (b. 22 March 1944, Buckinghamshire, England; vocals, guitar) met as students at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama and soon began performing together with Stuart providing the musical accompaniment to Clyde’s lyricsThe duo's first single, 1964's "Yesterday's Gone", for the Ember Records label, which was arranged by John Barry, was their only UK hit.^[1] However, Chad & Jeremy's strings-backed sound held a greater appeal in the United States, where World Artists Records released their early 1960s strain of commercial folk music.Their second single, "A Summer Song", hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 17–24 October 1964. Follow-ups included "Willow Weep for Me" (a 1930s song that was recorded by Paul Whiteman and Billie Holiday; with Chad & Jeremy's version climbing to Number 1 on the Easy Listening chart) and on Columbia Records in 1965, "Before and After" reached the Top 20. In total Chad & Jeremy had seven US Top 40 hits between 1964 and 1966..