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Chad Stuart, of the Hit British Duo Chad & Jeremy, Dies at 79
Last edited Thu Dec 24, 2020, 04:54 PM - Edit history (2)
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DoctorDJ • an hour ago
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Bummer... More of my youth disappears.
Chad Stuart, who found stardom as the chief musical force of the duo Chad & Jeremy during the British Invasion in the mid-1960s, died on Sunday at his home in Hailey, Idaho. He was 79.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/arts/music/chad-stuart-dead.html
O/t:
Bummer... More of my youth disappears.
Chad Stuart, who found stardom as the chief musical force of the duo Chad & Jeremy during the British Invasion in the mid-1960s, died on Sunday at his home in Hailey, Idaho. He was 79.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/arts/music/chad-stuart-dead.html
Chad Stuart, of the Hit British Duo Chad & Jeremy, Dies at 79
Mr. Stuart’s wistful tunes of summer romance brought him and Jeremy Clyde an intense but brief burst of stardom during the British Invasion of the 1960s.
By Alex Traub
Dec. 22, 2020
Chad Stuart, who found stardom as the chief musical force of the duo Chad & Jeremy during the British Invasion in the mid-1960s, died on Sunday at his home in Hailey, Idaho. He was 79. ... The cause was pneumonia, his daughter, Beth Stuart, said.
Singing in lock-step harmony, Mr. Stuart and Jeremy Clyde wrung all they could from the theme of a fondly recalled summer romance. “I loved you all the summer through,” “lovely summer dream,” “sweet soft summer nights,” “soft kisses on a summer’s day” — these phrases come from four different Top 40 Chad & Jeremy hits. They had seven of them in total, all love songs, between 1964 and 1966.
Their gentle voices and acoustic guitars conveyed intimacy, but tracks like “A Summer Song” and “Yesterday’s Gone” took on a grander scale from the sweeping strings, plaintive horns and booming drums of Mr. Stuart’s arrangements. The orchestration had neither the spare authenticity of purist folk nor the electric attitude of rock. Mr. Stuart’s pop tunes made wistfulness upbeat; they were less invasion than invitation.
Nevertheless, Chad & Jeremy capitalized on the British Invasion phenomenon. As their fame took off, close on the heels of Beatlemania, alongside other British bands like Herman’s Hermits and a fellow duo, Peter and Gordon, Mr. Stuart and Mr. Clyde found themselves serving as archetypal mop-top crooners on “Batman” and other TV series.
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Mr. Stuart on an episode of “Batman” in 1966, one of a number of television appearances Chad & Jeremy made in their heyday.Credit...ABC TV/Time Warner
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Mr. Stuart and Mr. Clyde met as undergraduates at the Central School of Speech and Drama (now the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) in London. Mr. Clyde, an aspiring actor, also played rudimentary folk guitar. A rumor went around that a guitar-playing new boy had mastered “Apache,” an instrumental by the beloved British rock group the Shadows. Mr. Clyde introduced himself, and he and Mr. Stuart became instant friends.
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A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 23, 2020, Section B, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Chad Stuart, Who Sang of Summer as Half of Chad & Jeremy, Dies at 79. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Mr. Stuart’s wistful tunes of summer romance brought him and Jeremy Clyde an intense but brief burst of stardom during the British Invasion of the 1960s.
By Alex Traub
Dec. 22, 2020
Chad Stuart, who found stardom as the chief musical force of the duo Chad & Jeremy during the British Invasion in the mid-1960s, died on Sunday at his home in Hailey, Idaho. He was 79. ... The cause was pneumonia, his daughter, Beth Stuart, said.
Singing in lock-step harmony, Mr. Stuart and Jeremy Clyde wrung all they could from the theme of a fondly recalled summer romance. “I loved you all the summer through,” “lovely summer dream,” “sweet soft summer nights,” “soft kisses on a summer’s day” — these phrases come from four different Top 40 Chad & Jeremy hits. They had seven of them in total, all love songs, between 1964 and 1966.
Their gentle voices and acoustic guitars conveyed intimacy, but tracks like “A Summer Song” and “Yesterday’s Gone” took on a grander scale from the sweeping strings, plaintive horns and booming drums of Mr. Stuart’s arrangements. The orchestration had neither the spare authenticity of purist folk nor the electric attitude of rock. Mr. Stuart’s pop tunes made wistfulness upbeat; they were less invasion than invitation.
Nevertheless, Chad & Jeremy capitalized on the British Invasion phenomenon. As their fame took off, close on the heels of Beatlemania, alongside other British bands like Herman’s Hermits and a fellow duo, Peter and Gordon, Mr. Stuart and Mr. Clyde found themselves serving as archetypal mop-top crooners on “Batman” and other TV series.
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Mr. Stuart on an episode of “Batman” in 1966, one of a number of television appearances Chad & Jeremy made in their heyday.Credit...ABC TV/Time Warner
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Mr. Stuart and Mr. Clyde met as undergraduates at the Central School of Speech and Drama (now the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) in London. Mr. Clyde, an aspiring actor, also played rudimentary folk guitar. A rumor went around that a guitar-playing new boy had mastered “Apache,” an instrumental by the beloved British rock group the Shadows. Mr. Clyde introduced himself, and he and Mr. Stuart became instant friends.
The Shadows - Apache (1960)
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DiscoBar80
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A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 23, 2020, Section B, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Chad Stuart, Who Sang of Summer as Half of Chad & Jeremy, Dies at 79. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Chad & Jeremy - Yesterday's Gone (1964)
521,829 views•May 11, 2013
Moon doggy
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From the 60's era, another chart buster. Talk about feel good music, not only good music, good times as well, a great throwback song to yesteryear....
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