Middle of the road - Sugar Jo Jo (1980) Rock Planet - TopPop
Sugar Jo Jo by Middle of the Road was written by Nigel Jenkins and Tom Parker and was first released by Nigel Jenkins in 1977.
Middle of the Road are a Scottish pop group who have enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America since the 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early Europop with their distinctive harmonies and lead vocals from Sally Carr. Four of their singles sold over one million copies each, and received a gold disc: “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep“. “Sacramento“, “Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum“ and “Soley Soley“. By early 1972 the group had sold over five million records.
Original lead singer Sally Carr (born 28 March 1945), drummer Ken Andrew, guitarist Ian McCredie and his bassist brother Eric McCredie, founded the band on 1 April 1970 in Glasgow, Scotland. They had already played together under the name Part Four since 1967 and later in Latin American style under the name Las Caracas. Under the name Las Caracas they won the UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. They moved to Italy in 1970 because they had not found success in the United Kingdom. There they met the Italian music producer Giacomo Tosti, who gave the band their distinctive sound and gave them their international break.
The band had their first and biggest hit record in the United Kingdom with their debut UK single, “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep“. The song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1971 and stayed there for four more weeks. In all, Middle of the Road had five hit singles in the UK in 1971 and 1972. The band had especially strong success in Germany, where they achieved eleven Top 40 hits between 1971 and 1974. As an example of this, Frank Valdor was fast to adapt Sacramento as his “party records“. Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep and Sacramento were played a lot on Scandinavian radio.
Middle of the road were extremely popular in the Netherlands: They had four no. 1 hits (Soley Sloley, Sacramento, Samson and Delilah and Yellow Boomerang). Their first hit Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep reached to no 2 in the Dutch Top 40.
In 1976 the band recorded their last album. Sally Carr left the band and started a solo career. In 1978 also Ken Andrews left the band. The rest of the group regrouped with singer Linda Carroll.
She is featured in this video. that was recorded and broadcast by Rock Planet TROS Top 50 tv program on June 5, 1980
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Broadcast date: 05-06-1980
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The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives.
AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.
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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.
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