Marmalade

Before moving to London and changing their name to MARMALADE, the group were originally known as DEAN FORD & THE GAYLORDS: The Glasgow based quintet enjoyed considerable success on the Scottish club circuit between 1961 and 1967.
The line up then consisted of Dean Ford, Graham Knight, Pat Fairley, Junior Campbell & Alan Whitehead.
Described as being unpretentious and irresistibly commercial, the group scored in the UK charts in May 1968 with LOVIN' THINGS and enjoyed a nr.1 with the MARMALADE anthem, an opportunist cover of the Beatles classic, OB LA DI OB LA DA.
After several successes with CBS, MARMALADE moved to Decca and became the first New Musical Express UK chart toppers of the seventies by replacing Rolf Harris' TWO LITTLE BOYS with REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE.
In 1971 Junior Campbell left to be replaced By Hugh Nicholson who wrote several more hits including COUSIN NORMAN, BACK ON THE ROAD and RADANCER.
1973 saw Hugh leave, his replacement being Sandy Newman on lead vocal and guitar.
It was three years later that FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS charted at number six. Despite several line-up changes during the seventies and a saucy "sex on tour" story in the Sunday papers causing considerable embarrassment, Graham Knight, survivor of the original group and the current line-up which has been together for some twenty years, are now more in demand that ever before.

Hits from MARMALADE :

OB - LA - DI, OB - LA - DA 20 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 2
REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE 12 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 7
RADANCER 11 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 11
RAINBOW 10 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 12
LOVIN' THINGS 9 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 32
COUSIN NORMAN 9 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 24
BABY MAKE IT SOON 7 Weeks in Charts - Nr. 33

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