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"Chirpy Chirpy, Cheep Cheep" is a song recorded in 1970 by its composer Lally Stott, [4] and made popular in 1971 by Scottish band Middle of the Road, for whom it was a UK #1 chart hit. [5] That version is one of fewer than fifty singles to have sold more than ten million physical copies worldwide.
Harold "Lally" Stott Jr. (16 January 1945 – 6 June 1977) [1] was an English singer-songwriter and musician who wrote the song "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" which became a UK number one hit for the Scottish band Middle of the Road in 1971, [2] and charting at number 20 in the U.S., and number 41 in the UK the same year for Mac and Katie Kissoon.
Stott had also written and first recorded the band's previous single "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" and he would go on to write other hits for Middle of the Road with the Capuano brothers. The song is about a clan rivalry between the MacDougalls and the MacGregors. [2] It was first released as a single in Italy in March 1971. [3]
The band had their first and biggest hit record in the United Kingdom with their debut UK single, "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep". The song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1971 and stayed there for four more weeks. In all, Middle of the Road had five hit singles in the UK in 1971 and 1972. The band had especially strong success in ...
Three Dog Night had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Joy to the World", the number one song of 1971. The Carpenters had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1971. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1971. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated ...
30 January 1971: 8 "The Pushbike Song" (#6) The Mixtures: 2 6 February 1971: 4 6 February 1971: 6 "Stoned Love" The Supremes: 3 6 February 1971: 2 4 "No Matter What" Badfinger: 5 6 February 1971: 1 6 "The Resurrection Shuffle" Ashton, Gardner and Dyke: 3 20 February 1971: 2 13 February 1971: 3 "Your Song" Elton John: 7 13 February 1971: 1 3 ...
In 1971, the group Middle of the Road was formed, and Carr had success with songs such as "Soley Soley" and "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep". Following the death of her mother Cecilia, Carr found it difficult to sing the lines "Where's your Mama gone?" and "Woke up this morning and my Mama was gone" from that song. [5]
The list contains every single recorded by a professional football team or individual player which spent at least one week in the UK top 75.It does not contain singles recorded in tribute to football teams by existing bands or groups of fans such as the 1975 hit "Viva El Fulham" by Tony Rees and the Cottagers, or other hits with a general football theme such as the four-time number one hit ...