Mouth & MacNeal

Mouth & MacNeal, 1971

Mouth & MacNeal were a Dutch singing duo that achieved success throughout Europe in the “ Middle-of-the-Road-Sound ” in the early 1970s .

Band history

Willem Duyn († December 3, 2004) began as a drummer in the "Holland Quartet", then became a singer with the "Jay-Jays", disc jockey and finally founded the band "Speedway" in 1970. In 1971 he founded the duo "Mouth & MacNeal" with Maggie MacNeal .

The duo became internationally known with the hit song How Do You Do? , which reached number 5 in the German charts in spring 1972 and number 8 in the US Billboard charts . Covered in the German language version by Peter Petrel under the name " Die Windows ", the song became a top hit in Germany that same year. With their follow-up single Hello-A , Mouth & MacNeal were number 1 in Germany for several weeks in 1972 . In the same year You-Kou-La-Le-Lou-Pie was still a Top 20 hit, while Battering Ram could no longer place itself in Germany in spring 1973.

With I See a Star, the two represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and took third place behind the winning titles Waterloo by ABBA and Sí by Gigliola Cinquetti . Shortly thereafter, the duo split up. While Maggie MacNeal was now active as a soloist, Mouth and his new partner Ingrid Kup founded the duo " Big Mouth & Little Eve ".

Willem Duyn died of cardiac arrest on December 3, 2004.

In 2007 the melody of How Do You Do? Taken over by Scooter for the song The Question Is What Is the Question .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	title	US	NL	Remarks
1972	How do you do? / Mouth & MacNeal (NL)	US77 (16 weeks) US	-	First published: June 1972

More albums

1972: Hello (DE) / Hello and Thank You (NL)
1972: Mouth & MacNeal II
1973: Pocketful of Hits

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	title	US	NL	Remarks
1974	I See a Star / Ik zie een ster (NL)	-	NL9 (3 weeks) NL	First published: April 1974

More compilations

1973: Sing a Song with Mouth & MacNeal
1974: Mouth & MacNeal - Stars for Millions
1980: The Best Of (Mouth & MacNeal / Big Mouth & Little Eve )
1995: The Singles
1999: How Do You Do
2000: Absolutely the Best
2001: The Singles + (2 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	NL	Remarks
1971	Hey, You Love How Do You Do? / Mouth & MacNeal (NL)	-	-	-	-	US87 (3 weeks) US	NL5 (8 weeks) NL	First published: August 1971 Chart entry in US only in October 1972 Authors: Hans van Hemert, Harry van Hoof
1971	How do you do? How do you do? / Mouth & MacNeal (NL)	DE5 (16 weeks) DE	-	CH1 (14 weeks) CH	-	US8 (19 weeks) US	NL1 (17 weeks) NL	First publication: November 1971 Author: Andreas Dries Holten
1972	Hello-a Hello / Hello and Thank You (NL)	DE1 (27 weeks) DE	AT13 (4 weeks) AT	CH2 (16 weeks) CH	-	-	NL1 (13 weeks) NL	First publication: May 1972 Author: Hans van Hemert
1972	You-kou-la-le-lou-pie Sing a Song with Mouth & MacNeal	DE15 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	NL7 (10 weeks) NL	First published: October 1972 Author: Hans van Hemert
1973	Batteringram Pocketful of Hits	-	-	-	-	-	NL21 (5 weeks) NL	First published: March 1973 Author: Hans van Hemert
	Minnie, Minnie Pocketful of Hits	-	AT17 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	NL10 (7 weeks) NL	First publication: August 1973 Author: Hans van Hemert
	Do You Wanna Do It Pocketful of Hits	-	-	-	-	-	NL21 (4 weeks) NL	First published: December 1973 Author: Hans van Hemert
1974	I See a Star / Ik zie een ster (NL) I See a Star / Ik zie een ster (NL)	-	-	-	UK8 (10 weeks) UK	-	NL3 (14 weeks) NL	First publication: March 1974 Authors: Hans van Hemert, Gerrit den Braber
1974	Ah, l'amore	-	-	-	-	-	NL10 (7 weeks) NL	First publication: June 1974 Authors: Ciro Sebastianelli, Ermanno Capelli, Ettore Lombardi, Hans van Hemert