Marmalade (band)
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Marmalade were a successful Scottish
pop rock
group
, from the east end of Glasgow
, originally formed in 1961 as "The Gaylords", later "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". In 1966, they changed the group name to 'The Marmalade'. The most successful period for the band, in terms of UK chart success, was between 1968 and 1972. From 1972, after the break up of the original band, the band evolved with many further changes and still exists to this day, although with the departure of Graham Knight in September 2010, there are now no original Marmalade members remaining in the band.
Whitehead replaced Ray Duffy, who left in 1967 to return to his trade as a chef. Duffy later returned to the music industry, drumming on Matthews Southern Comfort
's number one "Woodstock
", and also most of Gallagher and Lyle
's hits. Duffy also teamed up again with Campbell, playing drum
s on the latter's solo
hit singles, "Hallelujah Freedom
" and "Sweet Illusion
", plus the album
, Second Time Around.
" street gang), were originally formed by Pat Fairley and Billy Johnston in Baillieston
, a suburb east of Glasgow, around 1960/61. Their initial line-up included Tommy Frew on drums and lead guitarist Pat McGovern, fronted by vocalist Wattie Rodgers. Junior Campbell
joined on his fourteenth birthday on 31 May 1961, replacing McGovern, and Rodgers was then replaced, initially by two new lead vocalists, Billy Reid and Tommy Scott, although Reid soon departed, leaving Scott as the new frontman. Bill Irving then took over from Johnston on bass.
The group gathered notice and, in 1963, Dean Ford replaced Scott as lead singer. They then became known as "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". Ray Duffy then replaced Frew on drums. and for a few months, they had an organist, Davey Hunter. By 1964 Graham Knight, from the local group The Vampires, had replaced Irving on bass.
(Pictured; left to right: Bill Irving, Junior Campbell, Dean Ford, Ray Duffy and Pat Fairley (1964))
Becoming popular in Scotland, and under the management of Billy Grainger, in early 1964 they were signed to Columbia (EMI) by Norrie Paramor
and recorded four singles
, including a cover of the 1963 Chubby Checker
US hit,"Twenty Miles" which was a big seller locally, but failed to chart
nationally.
The group were well regarded in Scotland, and despite being crowned 'Scotland's Top Group' decided to try for success in the UK
as a whole.
In 1965, they played a long stint in Germany
, at the Storyville in Cologne
and in Duisburg
, before moving to London
, where they began to build up a club
reputation, as a tight, close harmony band, and in 1966, finding themselves in the middle of the 1960s "swinging London
scene", decided to update their image and instrumentation, and on the advice of their manager, changed the band name to "The Marmalade". Unusually, they now had two bass
players, Graham Knight on 4 string, and Pat Fairley on 6 string ( Fairley having dropped the standard "rhythm guitar
" associated with the "three guitar" instrumental groups of the early 1960s).
After changing labels
to CBS
, and producer Mike Smith, their next few singles also failed to chart in the UK, although one, the self penned cult
hit, "I See The Rain", written by Junior Campbell and Dean Ford, was highly praised by Jimi Hendrix
as the 'best cut of 1967'. It became a chart-topper
in the Netherlands
the same year (Graham Nash
of The Hollies
, contributed to the session).
Thursday, 19 January 1967, proved to be a major turning point in the bands progress when they made their debut at London's Marquee Club
where they supported Pink Floyd
. Two weeks later, 3 February, they supported The Action
. They never supported anyone again at the Marquee, and on 16 March 1967 they began a long residency which carried through to the autumn of the following year, building a reputation and following, including touring with The Who
, Joe Cocker
, Traffic
, Gene Pitney
and The Tremeloes
. This culminated in a summer appearance at the Windsor Jazz and Rock Festival in 1967, directly preceding Jerry Lee Lewis
.
Marmalade's label CBS were concerned at their lack of commercial success and threatened to drop them if they did not have a hit, and after the failure of another self-penned single later that year, "Man in a Shop", insisted they record more chart-oriented material. They rejected "Everlasting Love
", which became a #1
for Love Affair
, but later gave in to pressure and recorded, "Lovin' Things", written by Artie Schroeck
& Jet Loring in 1967, and arranged by Keith Mansfield
for Marmalade. It reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart
in the summer of 1968. This was later covered by The Grass Roots
in the US
in 1969, using virtually the same arrangement.
After a lesser hit with the follow-up "Wait For Me Mary-Anne" (written by Alan Blaikley
and Ken Howard
), which made #30, they enjoyed their most remembered UK success with their cover of The Beatles
' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
", which topped the UK chart in January 1969. As the first Scottish
group to ever top that chart, in the week it went to the chart summit they celebrated by appearing on BBC One
's music programme Top of the Pops
, dressed in kilt
s. Their version of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" sold around half a million in the |UK, and a million copies globally by April 1969. This was followed by further success with "Baby Make It Soon", (written by Tony Macaulay
), which reached #9, in the summer of 1969. The group began 1970 by appearing on the BBC
's highly rated review of the sixties music scene Pop Go The Sixties
, performing Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da live on the show broadcast on BBC1, January 1, 1970.
Following a change of record label to Decca Records
, under a deal allowing them to write
and produce
their own song
s, they recorded what would become their biggest worldwide hit. Topping the charts in Europe
, (a Top 10 in United States
, and #1 in most of South America
), the melancholy "Reflections of My Life
", written by Campbell and Ford, featured a backwards
guitar solo
by Campbell ( see Reflections of My Life
).
"Reflections of My Life" has recorded over two million sales and the writers were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement in 1998 by BMI
in attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the US alone. Other UK hits included "Rainbow" (UK #3) and "My Little One" (UK #15).
They were managed by Peter Walsh, a 1960s and 1970s pop entrepreneur whose portfolio also included The Tremeloes
, Bay City Rollers
, Billy Ocean
, The Troggs
and Blue Mink
.
After Campbell, who co-wrote most of the group's original material with Ford, left the band in March 1971 for a solo career, Marmalade suffered adverse publicity from the UK's newspaper
, News of the World
. They began a series of line-up changes including the loss of drummer Alan Whitehead.
Marmalade recruited a new drummer, Dougie Henderson, and guitarist, Hugh Nicholson, an ex-member of The Poets
, another band from Scotland. Then Marmalade released the album, Songs, in 1972, and Nicholson took on most lead vocals and song composition with more direct and less orchestral arrangements, which met with limited success. However, Nicholson penned two of their last hits, "Cousin Norman" and "Radancer", as well as the lesser hit "Back on the Road", on which he sang lead vocal. After the departure of Campbell, Pat Fairley then left the band to run the group's music publishing company.Nicholson left in 1973 to form Blue
(not to be confused with a much later boy band
of the same name – Blue
), and Ford plus Knight carried on with Marmalade Nicholson was replaced by Mike Japp
, a rock guitarist from the Welsh
band 'Thank You'.
Refusing to play most of the band's old hit records on stage, the group slowly came to a standstill. Knight was sacked, but then linked up with the original drummer, Alan Whitehead, to form Vintage Marmalade. They were reunited with their old manager Peter Walsh to play all the hits on stage, and had a full date sheet.
Ford was one of many lead vocalists contributing to The Alan Parsons Project
. His last known work in music was in 1991, by which time he was living in the US.
In 1975 Knight and Whitehead took over the name Marmalade again with a new line-up, fronted by vocalist and guitarist Sandy Newman. They signed a deal with Target Records, and in 1976, had what turned out to be their final Top 10 hit with the ominously entitled Tony Macaulay penned song, "Falling Apart at The Seams". Subsequent singles failed to chart. but ironically one of them was "Talking In Your Sleep", produced by Roger Greenaway and released in January 1978, 6 months ahead of the Crystal Gayle's version of the same song, which became well known worldwide.
Whitehead left the band in 1978 to manage other pop groups and singers, which he does to this day. He also appeared in the 2010 TV series
, Take Me Out
.
Knight remained with the band, touring on the nostalgia circuit with Marmalade alongside Newman, Glenn Taylor (drums), and Alan Holmes (guitar), but departed the line-up in July 2010.
In 2011 John James Newman, and Damon Sawyer, were added to the current line-up.
Ford, having retired from the music industry, settled in Los Angeles
(after a brief spell in New York
), whilst Fairley has his own bar
, called Scotland Yard, also situated in Los Angeles.
Campbell became a successful solo recording artist, songwriter
, television
and film
composer
, record producer
and music arranger, and lives in Sussex.
Mike Steed - Bass guitar & vocals.
Alan Holmes - Acoustic/electric guitar, keyboard & vocals.
John James Newman - Acoustic guitar & vocals
Damon Sawyer - Drums & percussion.
Scotland
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pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
group
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
, from the east end of Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, originally formed in 1961 as "The Gaylords", later "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". In 1966, they changed the group name to 'The Marmalade'. The most successful period for the band, in terms of UK chart success, was between 1968 and 1972. From 1972, after the break up of the original band, the band evolved with many further changes and still exists to this day, although with the departure of Graham Knight in September 2010, there are now no original Marmalade members remaining in the band.
Original band members
- Dean Ford: born Thomas McAleese, 5 September 1945, CoatbridgeCoatbridgeCoatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. The first settlement of the area stretches back to the Stone Age era...
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
— lead vocalist. - Junior CampbellJunior CampbellJunior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He...
: born William Campbell, 31 May 1947, Glasgow, Scotland — lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
ist / instrumentalistMusicianA musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
/ vocalist and arrangerArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
. - Graham Knight: born John Graham Knight, 8 December 1943, Glasgow — bassistBassistA bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
and vocalist. - Pat Fairley: born Patrick Fairley, 14 April 1943, Glasgow — 6 string bassist / rhythm guitarist.
- Alan Whitehead: born 24 July 1945, OswestryOswestryOswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads....
, ShropshireShropshireShropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
— drummerDrummerA drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
.
Whitehead replaced Ray Duffy, who left in 1967 to return to his trade as a chef. Duffy later returned to the music industry, drumming on Matthews Southern Comfort
Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews...
's number one "Woodstock
Woodstock (song)
"Woodstock" is a song about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969.Joni Mitchell wrote the song from what she had heard from then-boyfriend, Graham Nash, about the festival. She had not been there herself, since she was told it would be more advantageous to appear on The Dick Cavett Show by...
", and also most of Gallagher and Lyle
Gallagher and Lyle
Gallagher and Lyle was the Scottish pairing of singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle.-Career:They joined forces in 1959, initially as members of the local Largs based band, The Bluefrets. They began writing original material for the band and also wrote "Mr Heartbreak's Here Instead"...
's hits. Duffy also teamed up again with Campbell, playing drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s on the latter's solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
hit singles, "Hallelujah Freedom
Hallelujah Freedom
Hallelujah Freedom is a song written and recorded by Junior Campbell in Sept 1972.The recording took place at Decca Studio 2 in London in October 1972 and featured Campbell on lead vocal, piano, guitar & electric piano, with Ray Duffy on drums, Graham Knight on bass...
" and "Sweet Illusion
Sweet Illusion
Sweet Illusion is a song written and recorded by Junior Campbell in April 1973 as a follow up single to Hallelujah Freedom, which had seen UK chart success at the end of the previous year....
", plus the album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, Second Time Around.
Biography
"The Gaylords", (named after the notorious post war "Chicago GaylordsChicago Gaylords
The Chicago Gaylords, also known as the Almighty Gaylords, is one of the oldest Chicago street gangs. It originated in the neighborhood of Grand and Noble...
" street gang), were originally formed by Pat Fairley and Billy Johnston in Baillieston
Baillieston
Baillieston is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about 7 miles east of the city centre.It is also the name of Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council...
, a suburb east of Glasgow, around 1960/61. Their initial line-up included Tommy Frew on drums and lead guitarist Pat McGovern, fronted by vocalist Wattie Rodgers. Junior Campbell
Junior Campbell
Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He...
joined on his fourteenth birthday on 31 May 1961, replacing McGovern, and Rodgers was then replaced, initially by two new lead vocalists, Billy Reid and Tommy Scott, although Reid soon departed, leaving Scott as the new frontman. Bill Irving then took over from Johnston on bass.
The group gathered notice and, in 1963, Dean Ford replaced Scott as lead singer. They then became known as "Dean Ford and The Gaylords". Ray Duffy then replaced Frew on drums. and for a few months, they had an organist, Davey Hunter. By 1964 Graham Knight, from the local group The Vampires, had replaced Irving on bass.
(Pictured; left to right: Bill Irving, Junior Campbell, Dean Ford, Ray Duffy and Pat Fairley (1964))
Becoming popular in Scotland, and under the management of Billy Grainger, in early 1964 they were signed to Columbia (EMI) by Norrie Paramor
Norrie Paramor
Norrie Paramor was a British record producer, composer, arranger, and orchestral conductor.Although the term "producer" was not in circulation at the time Paramor started producing records , he effectively began this role in 1952 when he became Recording Director for EMI's Columbia...
and recorded four singles
Singles
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, including a cover of the 1963 Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist"...
US hit,"Twenty Miles" which was a big seller locally, but failed to chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
nationally.
The group were well regarded in Scotland, and despite being crowned 'Scotland's Top Group' decided to try for success in the UK
United Kingdom
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as a whole.
In 1965, they played a long stint in Germany
Germany
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, at the Storyville in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
and in Duisburg
Duisburg
- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...
, before moving to London
London
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, where they began to build up a club
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
reputation, as a tight, close harmony band, and in 1966, finding themselves in the middle of the 1960s "swinging London
Swinging London
Swinging London is a catch-all term applied to the fashion and cultural scene that flourished in London, in the 1960s.It was a youth-oriented phenomenon that emphasised the new and modern. It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a cultural revolution. One catalyst was the recovery of the...
scene", decided to update their image and instrumentation, and on the advice of their manager, changed the band name to "The Marmalade". Unusually, they now had two bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
players, Graham Knight on 4 string, and Pat Fairley on 6 string ( Fairley having dropped the standard "rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
" associated with the "three guitar" instrumental groups of the early 1960s).
After changing labels
Record label
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to CBS
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, and producer Mike Smith, their next few singles also failed to chart in the UK, although one, the self penned cult
Cult
The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...
hit, "I See The Rain", written by Junior Campbell and Dean Ford, was highly praised by Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
as the 'best cut of 1967'. It became a chart-topper
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
the same year (Graham Nash
Graham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...
of The Hollies
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...
, contributed to the session).
Thursday, 19 January 1967, proved to be a major turning point in the bands progress when they made their debut at London's Marquee Club
Marquee Club
The Marquee was a music club first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts.It was also the location of the first ever live performance by The Rolling Stones on 12 July 1962....
where they supported Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
. Two weeks later, 3 February, they supported The Action
The Action
The Action were an English band of the 1960s. They were part of the mod subculture, and played soul music-influenced pop music.-Career:The band were formed as The Boys in August 1963, in Kentish Town, North West London. After Peter Watson joined them as an additional guitarist in 1965, they changed...
. They never supported anyone again at the Marquee, and on 16 March 1967 they began a long residency which carried through to the autumn of the following year, building a reputation and following, including touring with The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
, Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
, Traffic
Traffic (band)
Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...
, Gene Pitney
Gene Pitney
Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...
and The Tremeloes
The Tremeloes
The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
. This culminated in a summer appearance at the Windsor Jazz and Rock Festival in 1967, directly preceding Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis's career faltered after he married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a career extension to country and western music. He is known by the nickname 'The...
.
Marmalade's label CBS were concerned at their lack of commercial success and threatened to drop them if they did not have a hit, and after the failure of another self-penned single later that year, "Man in a Shop", insisted they record more chart-oriented material. They rejected "Everlasting Love
Everlasting Love
"Everlasting Love" is a song written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden that has been a hit for various artists, including Robert Knight, Carl Carlton, Love Affair, and Gloria Estefan.- Overview :...
", which became a #1
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
for Love Affair
Love Affair (band)
Love Affair were a London based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. They had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success "Everlasting Love".-Personnel:The band primarily featured the following —...
, but later gave in to pressure and recorded, "Lovin' Things", written by Artie Schroeck
Artie Schroeck
Arthur "Artie" Bruce Schroeck is an American musician, best known for arranging and composing popular songs and jingles. He has won multiple Clio Awards, such as when he composed the music for the 1981 ABC-TV promo "Now is the time, ABC is the place". He also composed the 1982 promo "Come on...
& Jet Loring in 1967, and arranged by Keith Mansfield
Keith Mansfield
Keith Mansfield is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC...
for Marmalade. It reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
in the summer of 1968. This was later covered by The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots is an American rock band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri.In their career, The Grass Roots achieved two gold albums, one gold single and charted singles a total of 21 times. Among their charting singles, they...
in the US
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1969, using virtually the same arrangement.
After a lesser hit with the follow-up "Wait For Me Mary-Anne" (written by Alan Blaikley
Alan Blaikley
-Early life and career:Born in London, where he survived the Blitz, Alan Blaikley was educated at University College School , Hampstead, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Classical Moderations and English, and was Reviews Editor of the university newspaper Cherwell.After coming down from...
and Ken Howard
Ken Howard (composer)
Ken Howard is an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director.-International hits in the 1960s and 1970s:...
), which made #30, they enjoyed their most remembered UK success with their cover of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is a song credited to Lennon–McCartney, but written by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on their 1968 album The Beatles...
", which topped the UK chart in January 1969. As the first Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
group to ever top that chart, in the week it went to the chart summit they celebrated by appearing on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's music programme Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
, dressed in kilt
Kilt
The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century. Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic heritage even more broadly...
s. Their version of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" sold around half a million in the |UK, and a million copies globally by April 1969. This was followed by further success with "Baby Make It Soon", (written by Tony Macaulay
Tony Macaulay
Tony Macaulay is a British author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career...
), which reached #9, in the summer of 1969. The group began 1970 by appearing on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's highly rated review of the sixties music scene Pop Go The Sixties
Pop Go The Sixties
Pop Go The Sixties! was a one-off, seventy five-minute TV special originally broadcast in colour on 31 December 1969, to celebrate the major pop hits of the 1960s. The show was a co-production between the United Kingdom's BBC and Germany's ZDF broadcasters...
, performing Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da live on the show broadcast on BBC1, January 1, 1970.
Following a change of record label to Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
, under a deal allowing them to write
Songwriter
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and produce
Record producer
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their own song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
s, they recorded what would become their biggest worldwide hit. Topping the charts in Europe
Europe
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, (a Top 10 in United States
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, and #1 in most of South America
South America
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), the melancholy "Reflections of My Life
Reflections of My Life
"Reflections of My Life" was a 1969 hit single for the Scottish band, The Marmalade. It was written by their lead guitarist Junior Campbell, and singer Dean Ford . Released in late 1969, it was the band's first release on Decca following an earlier spell at CBS...
", written by Campbell and Ford, featured a backwards
Backmasking
Backmasking is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward on to a track that is meant to be played forward...
guitar solo
Guitar solo
In popular music, a guitar solo is a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, jazz, rock and metal styles such...
by Campbell ( see Reflections of My Life
Reflections of My Life
"Reflections of My Life" was a 1969 hit single for the Scottish band, The Marmalade. It was written by their lead guitarist Junior Campbell, and singer Dean Ford . Released in late 1969, it was the band's first release on Decca following an earlier spell at CBS...
).
"Reflections of My Life" has recorded over two million sales and the writers were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement in 1998 by BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
in attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the US alone. Other UK hits included "Rainbow" (UK #3) and "My Little One" (UK #15).
They were managed by Peter Walsh, a 1960s and 1970s pop entrepreneur whose portfolio also included The Tremeloes
The Tremeloes
The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
, Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers
The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at...
, Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
, The Troggs
The Troggs
The Troggs are an English rock band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in UK and the US. Their most famous songs include, "Wild Thing", "With a Girl Like You", and "Love Is All Around"...
and Blue Mink
Blue Mink
Blue Mink was a British five-piece pop group, that existed from 1969 to 1974. Over that period they had six Top 20 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart, and released five studio based albums...
.
After Campbell, who co-wrote most of the group's original material with Ford, left the band in March 1971 for a solo career, Marmalade suffered adverse publicity from the UK's newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
, News of the World
News of the World
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...
. They began a series of line-up changes including the loss of drummer Alan Whitehead.
Marmalade recruited a new drummer, Dougie Henderson, and guitarist, Hugh Nicholson, an ex-member of The Poets
The Poets
The Poets were a Scottish blues, freakbeat and psychedelic pop band, who were managed and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Some of their singles were released on his Immediate Records label...
, another band from Scotland. Then Marmalade released the album, Songs, in 1972, and Nicholson took on most lead vocals and song composition with more direct and less orchestral arrangements, which met with limited success. However, Nicholson penned two of their last hits, "Cousin Norman" and "Radancer", as well as the lesser hit "Back on the Road", on which he sang lead vocal. After the departure of Campbell, Pat Fairley then left the band to run the group's music publishing company.Nicholson left in 1973 to form Blue
Blue (Scottish band)
Blue is a Scottish pop/rock musical band, which was formed in Glasgow in 1973.-Original band members:*Hughie Nicholson — Guitarist / vocalist / keyboardist...
(not to be confused with a much later boy band
Boy band
A boy band is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on...
of the same name – Blue
Blue (boy band)
Blue are an English pop vocal group, whose members are Simon Webbe, Lee Ryan, Duncan James and Antony Costa. Blue originally formed in 2001 before splitting in 2005. In 2009, it was confirmed that the band would reform. In April 2009, the group reunited and a Best of Blue Tour was announced...
), and Ford plus Knight carried on with Marmalade Nicholson was replaced by Mike Japp
Mikel Japp
Mikel Japp is a musician and songwriter.Japp joined May Fisher, a Llanelli-based band, just before it was taken up by a London rock and pop music agency - through a friend who went on to establish 3PR - and sent on an extended and successful tour of Yugoslavia under a new name: Thank You...
, a rock guitarist from the Welsh
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
band 'Thank You'.
Refusing to play most of the band's old hit records on stage, the group slowly came to a standstill. Knight was sacked, but then linked up with the original drummer, Alan Whitehead, to form Vintage Marmalade. They were reunited with their old manager Peter Walsh to play all the hits on stage, and had a full date sheet.
Ford was one of many lead vocalists contributing to The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians....
. His last known work in music was in 1991, by which time he was living in the US.
In 1975 Knight and Whitehead took over the name Marmalade again with a new line-up, fronted by vocalist and guitarist Sandy Newman. They signed a deal with Target Records, and in 1976, had what turned out to be their final Top 10 hit with the ominously entitled Tony Macaulay penned song, "Falling Apart at The Seams". Subsequent singles failed to chart. but ironically one of them was "Talking In Your Sleep", produced by Roger Greenaway and released in January 1978, 6 months ahead of the Crystal Gayle's version of the same song, which became well known worldwide.
Whitehead left the band in 1978 to manage other pop groups and singers, which he does to this day. He also appeared in the 2010 TV series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
, Take Me Out
Take Me Out (game show)
Take Me Out is a television dating game show, hosted by Paddy McGuinness, that started airing on ITV1 in the United Kingdom and TV3 Ireland on 2 January 2010. It is based on the Original Australian TV show Taken Out. In September 2010, Irish broadcaster TV3 started broadcating an Irish version of...
.
Knight remained with the band, touring on the nostalgia circuit with Marmalade alongside Newman, Glenn Taylor (drums), and Alan Holmes (guitar), but departed the line-up in July 2010.
In 2011 John James Newman, and Damon Sawyer, were added to the current line-up.
Ford, having retired from the music industry, settled in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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(after a brief spell in New York
New York City
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), whilst Fairley has his own bar
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A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...
, called Scotland Yard, also situated in Los Angeles.
Campbell became a successful solo recording artist, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and music arranger, and lives in Sussex.
Marmalade since 1975
Sandy Newman has continued to front the band since 1975, releasing a further 11 singles in the UK (excluding re-releases), 7 of which were via Target Records and today he continues to tour the nostalgia circuit, performing the band's full hit repertoire.Band members in 2011
Sandy Newman - Lead guitar, keyboard & lead vocals.Mike Steed - Bass guitar & vocals.
Alan Holmes - Acoustic/electric guitar, keyboard & vocals.
John James Newman - Acoustic guitar & vocals
Damon Sawyer - Drums & percussion.
Dean Ford and the Gaylords singles
| Title | Cat No. | Release Date |
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| "Twenty Miles" c/w "What's The Matter With Me" | Columbia DB7264 | April 1964 |
| "Mr Heartbreak's Here Instead" c/w "I Won't" | Columbia DB7402 | November 1964 |
| "The Name Game" c/w "That Lonely Feeling" | Columbia DB7610 | June 1965 |
| "He's A Good Face" (But He's Down And Out)" c/w "You Know It Too" | Columbia DB7805 | December 1965 |
Marmalade singles
| Year | Title (Songwriter Songwriter A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer... s) |
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
US Billboard Hot 100 Chart Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Adult Contemporary Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
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| 1966 | "Its All Leading up to Saturday Night" (Geoff Stephens Geoff Stephens Geoffrey 'Geoff' Stephens , was one of the top British songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:... ) |
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| 1967 | "I See The Rain" (William Campbell Junior Campbell Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He... /Thomas McAleese) |
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| 1967 | "Man In A Shop" (William Campbell Junior Campbell Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He... /Thomas McAleese) |
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| 1968 | "Lovin' Things" (Jet Loring/Artie Schroeck Artie Schroeck Arthur "Artie" Bruce Schroeck is an American musician, best known for arranging and composing popular songs and jingles. He has won multiple Clio Awards, such as when he composed the music for the 1981 ABC-TV promo "Now is the time, ABC is the place". He also composed the 1982 promo "Come on... ) |
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| 1968 | "Wait For Me Mary-Anne" (Alan Blaikley Alan Blaikley -Early life and career:Born in London, where he survived the Blitz, Alan Blaikley was educated at University College School , Hampstead, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Classical Moderations and English, and was Reviews Editor of the university newspaper Cherwell.After coming down from... /Ken Howard Ken Howard (composer) Ken Howard is an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director.-International hits in the 1960s and 1970s:... ) |
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| 1968 | "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is a song credited to Lennon–McCartney, but written by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on their 1968 album The Beatles... " (Lennon John Lennon John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music... /McCartney Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100... ) |
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| 1969 | "Baby Make It Soon" (Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay is a British author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career... ) |
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| 1969 | "Butterfly" (Barry Gibb Barry Gibb Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE , is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in the Isle of Man to English parents. With his brothers Robin and Maurice, he formed The Bee Gees, one of the most successful pop groups of all time. The trio got their start in Australia, and found their major... /Maurice Gibb Maurice Gibb Maurice Ernest Gibb, CBE was a musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born on the Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry. He is best known as a member of the singing/songwriting trio the Bee Gees, formed with his brothers... /Robin Gibb Robin Gibb Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice , and elder brother Barry.... ) |
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| 1969 | "Reflections of My Life Reflections of My Life "Reflections of My Life" was a 1969 hit single for the Scottish band, The Marmalade. It was written by their lead guitarist Junior Campbell, and singer Dean Ford . Released in late 1969, it was the band's first release on Decca following an earlier spell at CBS... " (William Campbell Junior Campbell Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He... /Thomas McAleese) |
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| 1970 | "Rainbow" (William Campbell Junior Campbell Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He... /Thomas McAleese) |
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| 1971 | "My Little One" (William Campbell Junior Campbell Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See The Rain" and "Rainbow".He... /Thomas McAleese) |
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| 1971 | "Cousin Norman" (Hugh Nicholson) |
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| 1973 | "The Wishing Well" (Dean Ford) |
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| 1974 | "Come Back Jo" (Dean Ford/Mike Japp) |
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| 1976 | "Falling Apart at The Seams" (Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay is a British author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career... ) |
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| 1976 | "Walking A Tightrope" (Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay is a British author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter, though it was the latter that made him a household name early in his career... ) |
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| 1976 | "What You Need Is A Miracle" (Sandy Newman) |
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| 1977 | "The Only Light On My Horizon Now" (Macaulay/Stephens) |
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| 1977 | "Mystery Has Gone" (Sandy Newman/Graham Knight) |
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| 1978 | "Talking In Your Sleep" (Roger Cook/Bobby Wood) |
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Marmalade studio albums
- Original Band
- There's a Lot of It About (1968) CBSColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
- Best Of (1969) CBSColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
- Reflections of The Marmalade (1970) Decca RecordsDecca RecordsDecca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
- Additional/ Later Line-Ups
- Songs (1971) Decca RecordsDecca RecordsDecca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
- Our House Is Rocking (1974)
- The Only Light on My Horizon Now (1977)
- ...Doing It All for You (1978)
- Marmalade (US only) (1981)
- Heartbreaker (1982)
External links
- Marmalade at "Rockingscots"
- [ Marmalade biography at Allmusic]
- Current official website
- Marmalade feature in German
- Marquee Club Calendar - 1967