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Middle Of The Road | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: RCA Victor Europe
• ASIN: B000067CIJ
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,337 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2002 compilation for 70's AM pop act best-known for 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep' (included here). Additional tracks include, 'Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum', 'Samson & Delilah', 'Soley Soley', 'Love Sweet Love', 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top', 'The Talk Of The U.S.A.', 'To Remind Me', 'On This Land', 'Queen Bee', 'Yellow River', 'Sacramento', 'Louise (My Little Ship)', 'Rainin' 'N' Painin'', 'Give It Time' & 'Try A Little Understanding'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Middle of the Road indeed, June 23, 2006

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Robert S. Estes "othrzone" (Santa Rosa, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

US Top 40 lovers might vaguely remember "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" a hit in Hawaii and some parts of Western states,a bigger hit worldwide. Middle of the Road was inbetween girl group pop and basic late 60's early 70's reminicent of so- called "Bubble Gum" , but more like the England studio bands with Tony Burrows heading groups like White Plains (My Baby Loves Love) Edison Lighthouse (Love Grow where My Rosemary Goes) First Class (Beach Baby) Pipkins (Gimme Dat Ding) but with a female lead singer mostly.
Middle of the Road could be considered a fore-runner of ABBA. The
beat is there, the harmonies ring ring, the production has the blast at the end.

In the end, though,this is for only those who like a period of 70's rock, who lived, loved through it, and want to keep it alive!!!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chirpy Bubblegum!, April 2, 2003

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep was a hit for a certain Lally Stott the year before, but it took Middle Midle Of The Road to take it to number one in middle 1971. This charming collection of early 1970s bubblegum pop also contains their other hits Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum, Samson & Delilah and Soley Soley, plus cover versions of familiar 60s hits like Yellow River, Sacramento and I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top. There's a tremulous quality in the female voice in songs like Chirpy and Tweedle Dee that reminds me of Stevie Nicks on some of her solo stuff. I think they were a Scottish band and I remember seeing them live in South Africa way back. As pop music goes, this isn't bad at all. Nothing cerebral, but these catchy songs still pack a punch and if you're prone to nostalgia, this will serve as a pleasant time machine trip back to your childhood.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Scottish ABBA, December 21, 2010

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hott lipps - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

The Scottish ABBA. Bridges bubblegum, the pattycake fun of early 60s girl groups but has solid 70s production which makes it an almost all new thing. The studio tricks to make her harmonize with herself are interesting but it is the early 70s proto glam rock production on the backing band that really make this stand out in time. The song "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" is the near perfect simple rhyme and rhythm handclap stupidness that borders on transcendence. Pop music to pet warm puppies by. Usually this type of pop would only be made on the continent, where English was a second, third or fourth language, it is that cheesy. Like professionally bottled sunshine.