The Marmalade
The Marmalade is a British pop group that had a total of eight top 10 hits in the English singles charts between 1968 and 1976. Because of her fame, a cocktail was named after her, the "Marmaladdie".
Band history
The band was founded in 1961 and was initially called Dean Ford & the Gaylords . From 1964 to 1966 the quintet was elected as the top band in Scotland , which was also due to the fact that they performed almost continuously in every Scottish city. In 1967 the group took part in the Windsor Jazz Festival , where they stole the show from all other participants. A move to London followed, the name changed to The Marmalade and appearances in the famous Marquee Club .
In May 1968, Lovin 'Things achieved their first top 10 success, followed by Wait for Me Marianne in October 1968 , which however only managed to reach rank 30. The song was written by the successful British writing team Ken Howard & Alan Blaikley , who produced all of the hits of the Marmalade from December 1968 to Baby Make It Soon (June 1969). This included their biggest hit, a cover version of the Beatles song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da , which the group performed in orange suits. So she reached number one in the British charts in early 1969 . The band's other hits included Reflections of My Life and Rainbow .
Marmalade's manager was Peter Walsh, who signed a number of successful performers and bands through the 1960s and 1970s, including the Bay City Rollers , Billy Ocean , the Troggs and Blue Mink .
The driving forces behind the band were vocalist Dean Ford and bassist Graham Knight. With the departure of Junior Campbell, a series of changes began. Drummer Alan Whitehead also left the band. Trying to switch to progressive rock had little success.
The rejuvenated band Marmalade is still on tour at oldie festivals under the direction of Graham Knight after the turn of the millennium.
Original members
- Junior Wullie Campbell (born July 24, 1946 in Glasgow , Scotland ), lead guitar
- Patrick Fairley (born April 14, 1946 in Glasgow; † August 11, 2020), guitar
- Dean Ford (born September 5, 1946 as Thomas McAleese in Airdrie ; † December 31, 2018), vocals, also harmonica and tambourine
- Graham Knight (born December 8, 1946 in Glasgow), trumpet , bass guitar and vocals
- Alan Whitehead (born July 24, 1947 in Oswestry, Shropshire ), drums
Later members
- Hughie Nicholson, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Doughie Henderson, drums
- Sandy Newman, vocals, guitar, keyboard
- Garth Wett-Roy, vocals, guitar
- Alan Holmes, b. 1949 - acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard and vocals
Discography
Albums
- 1968: There's a Lot of It About
- 1970: Reflections of the Marmalade
- 1971: Songs
- 1974: Our House Is Rocking
- 1974: Reflections of My Life and other great Songs
- 1977: The Only Light on My Horizon Now
- 1978: … Doing It All for You
- 1981: Marmalade (USA only)
- 1982: Heartbreaker
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
|
 AT
|
 CH
|
 UK
|
 US
|
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| 1968 | Lovin 'things |
DE39 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK6 (13 weeks) UK |
- | |
| Wait for Me Marianne | - | - | - |
UK30 (5 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da |
DE2 (5 weeks) DE |
AT1 (4 weeks) AT |
CH2 (4 weeks) CH |
UK1 (20 weeks) UK |
- |
The Beatles cover
|
|
| 1969 | Baby Make It Soon | - | - | - |
UK9 (13 weeks) UK |
- | |
| Reflections of My Life |
DE20 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK3 (12 weeks) UK |
US10 (15 weeks) US |
||
| 1970 | Rainbow |
DE21 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK3 (14 weeks) UK |
US51 (8 weeks) US |
|
| 1971 | My little one | - | - | - |
UK15 (11 weeks) UK |
- | |
| Cousin Norman | - | - | - |
UK6 (11 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| Back on the road | - | - | - |
UK35 (8 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| 1972 | Radancer |
DE31 (7 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK6 (12 weeks) UK |
- | |
| 1976 | Falling Apart at the Seams | - | - | - |
UK9 (11 weeks) UK |
US49 (9 weeks) US |
|
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More singles
- 1966: It's All Leading up to Saturday Night
- 1966: Can't Stop Now
- 1967: I See the Rain
- 1967: Man in a shop
- 1969: Butterfly
- 1973: The Wishing Well
- 1973: Our House Is Rockin '
- 1974: Come Back Jo
- 1976: Walking a Tightrope
- 1976: What You Need Is a Miracle
- 1976: Hello Baby
- 1977: The Only Light on My Horizon Now
- 1977: Mystery Has Gone
- 1978: Talking in Your Sleep
- 1978: Heavens Above
- 1979: Made in Germany
- 1984: Heartbreaker
- 1985: Golden Shreds
literature
- Julia Edenhofer : The great oldie lexicon , Weltbild Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-89350-720-5 .
- Frank Laufenberg's Hit-Lexikon des Rock und Pop , Volume 2, Ullstein, 2002, ISBN 3-548-36372-5 .