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In 2016, Middle of the Road's founding guitarist Ian McCredie accepted a Living Legends Award on behalf of the group at the Scottish Music Awards in Glasgow. In 2017, Middle of the Road released their first single in over 20 years, a live recording of their 1970s hit "Soley Soley", performed in front of 20,000 people in Berlin's Waldbühne ...
"Middle of the Road" is a song by the Pretenders, released as the third single from the album Learning to Crawl. The single was released in the US in November 1983, then in the UK in February 1984. The song peaked at number 19 on the US pop singles chart [2] and number 2 on the US mainstream rock chart in January 1984, where it stayed for four ...
For over 40 years the discography of The Pretenders, a London, England-based rock band, reflects worldwide charting of 12 studio albums, four compilation albums, one extended play (EP), four live albums, six video albums and 55 singles.
Middle of the road was famously associated with MetroMedia Radio stations; their flagship station was WNEW 1130 AM in New York. The MOR genre creation was an evolutionary outcome of WNEW's reluctance to follow the Top 40 domination and adhere to traditional male and female vocals such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy ...
"Soley Soley" was written by Spanish musician Fernando Arbex and was recorded by Middle of the Road whilst they were in Spain. It was first released in the Netherlands in August 1971 and was released in the UK on 26 November 1971. [2]
Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television show M*A*S*H. His appearances spanned three episodes in the show's third season (1974–1975). [6]
2.2 Side two - "Middle of the Road" 2.3 Side three - "Interference ... Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion is a live double album released in 1974 by Roy Harper.
In most countries, it was released with the B-side "Love Sweet Love", which was written by Italian brothers Giosy and Mario Capuano, as well as Middle of the Road guitarist Ian McCredie. [3] However, in a few countries, Spain, Peru and New Zealand, "Sacramento" was released with the B-side " Samson and Delilah ", which was later released as the ...