Marshall Grove

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Free ride
  DE 44 10/02/1978 (2 weeks)
Singles
Dancing in the City
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/07/1978 (19 weeks)
  AT 6th 09/15/1978 (20 weeks)
  CH 4th 09.09.1978 (10 weeks)
  UK 3 
gold
gold
06/03/1978 (15 weeks)
  US 43 December 9, 1978 (11 weeks)
Coming home
  UK 39 10/14/1978 (4 weeks)
Dancing in the City '87
  UK 81 09/12/1987 (2 weeks)

Marshall Hain was a British pop duo that consisted of keyboardist Julian Marshall and singer Kit Hain.

Members

Kit Grove

Kit Hain (born December 15, 1956 in Cobham , Surrey ) knew Julian Marshall from her school days in Plymouth . She studied psychology in London and worked on the side with folk music , she wrote songs and sang. She met Marshall again and worked with him for a while.

After their time together, Hain recorded two solo LPs: Spirits Walking Out (1981) - alternative title: Looking for You - and School for Spies (1983), which only sold moderately. She moved to the USA in the 1980s and only works as a songwriter . Her pieces have been recorded by Cher , Roger Daltrey and Fleetwood Mac , among others .

Julian Marshall

Julian Marshall (* in Exeter ) went to London after finishing school to study music at Dartington Hall School and the Royal College of Music . He played a lot of jazz music and formed his own band. He met Kit Hain again in a London jazz club. After a time together as Marshall Hain, he worked in the group The Flying Lizards in 1979 and formed the duo "Eye to Eye" with singer Deborah Berg in the 1980s , which released two albums without success. Today he works as a lecturer.

Band history

Julian Marshall and Kit Hain began writing and playing music together in 1976. The two achieved a great international success in the summer of 1978 with the disco-suitable title Dancing in the City ; UK 3rd place in Switzerland 4th place in Germany even for a week # 1 . The following single, the slower Coming Home , reached position 39 in the British charts. The LP Free Ride could not be placed in the charts and the duo broke up again. Marshall Hain remained a one-hit wonder .

Discography

Albums

  • 1978: Free Ride

Singles

  • 1978: Dancing in the City
  • 1978: Coming Home
  • 1987: Dancing in the City (Summer City '87)
  • 1992: Dancing in the City (Steve Proctor Summer '92 Remix)

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles Albums UK
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links