Chad & Jeremy

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Chad and Jeremy were a singing folk rock duo in the 1960s, comprising Chad Stuart (born David Stuart Chadwick, 10 December 1941, Windermere, Cumbria) and Jeremy Clyde (born Michael Thomas Jeremy Clyde, 22 March 1941, Dorney, Buckinghamshire). They were part of the "British Invasion", a large influx of British rock and pop musicians to the American music scene.

The duo's first single, "Yesterday's Gone", was their only real UK hit; revelations of Jeremy's upper-class upbringing hurt their popular image. However, Chad and Jeremy's sensitive, strings-backed sound held a greater appeal in America, where they perhaps benefitted from an early 1960s strain of commercial folk music. Their second single, "A Summer Song", hit #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. Follow-ups "Willow Weep For Me" and "Before and After" reached the top 20, and altogether Chad and Jeremy had seven U.S. Top 40 hits during 1964-66.

In the fall of 1967 they released one of their most ambitious albums, "Of Cabbages and Kings." This psychedelic, satirical album was very different from the previous mellow Chad and Jeremy offerings and was rated very highly by the music critics of the day but sold poorly, as did the follow-up, the also critically acclaimed "The Ark."

The duo appeared as themselves in the episodes "The Cat's Meow" and "The Bat's Kow Tow" of the television series Batman, in which the guest villain was Julie Newmar as Catwoman.

The duo played "The Redcoats" in a guest appearance on the TV series Dick Van Dyke Show. They also had a guest appearance on the Patty Duke Show where they performed the song "The Truth Often Hurts the Heart". Chad Stuart voiced Flaps the vulture in Disney's 1967 film The Jungle Book. Clyde also appeared as a bachelor contestant on the The Dating Game where he won.

Chad and Jeremy have recently reunited, and are now doing live acts.

Jeremy and Chad are the namesakes of Jeremy Duncan and his brother Chad in the comic strip Zits.

In 2003 PBS reunited Chad and Jeremy with a 60's Pop Reunion Special which also prompted a tour. They have been touring since. In 2008 a greatest Hits album, "Ark-eology" and a new album "Zanzibar Sunset" are due to be released.

[edit] External links

• Chad & Jeremy official website
• "The Patty Duke Show": "Patty Pits Wits, Two Brits Hits" (1965) at the Internet Movie Database