Posted on 04/11/2021 8:31:34 AM PDT by SamAdams76
This was a very important record in the early 1970s that was covered by a multitude of recording artists.
This is one of only 50 singles to sell in access of ten million copies (the "Middle of the Road" version). However, the hit version in the United States was performed by Mac & Katie Kassoon.
Anyway, an utterly massive record that anybody alive in the early 1970s would instantly know.
The video linked here is rather primitive by MTV standards (we were still 10 years away from the launch of that music video channel). But it's amusing in that has Lolly walks down the streets of 1970 Amsterdam, many bystanders are bewildered and intrigued by the sight of this long-haired man walking down the street singing with a movie camera in front and to the side of him.
Lolly wrote the song by the way so this can be considered the "original" version. It hit the U.S. charts exactly 50 years ago this week and peaked at #92 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This was voted a "creepy" song in that it has a theme of child abandonment.
Unfortunately for Lolly, he would be killed about 7 years later in a head-on collision while riding a Yamaha motor-bike someplace in England.
He was only 32 but he did write one of the biggest selling songs in the history of pop music.
No Sally Carr was the lead singer of Middle of the Road who sang the version that became popular. they were a Welsh band and she was a quite lovely woman back in the day.
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