Here are some
sound and video files for tracks you may have never heard or seen. The newer music files are in MP3, and are fully downloadable. The newer videos are available from YouTube. The older additions to the site are in
streaming Real Audio or Video.
If you don't have Real Audio, visit http://www.real.com/ and come right back
here!
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
The Truth Often Hurts The Heart (from "The Patty Duke Show", February 17th 1965)
On this edition of the Patty Duke Show C&J starred as downtrodden would-be British Invasion stars Nigel and Patrick. Patty gets them their big break and they repay her with a concert at her High School (as you do). The record that gave them their fictional big break is this track,
presumably featured to help shift copies of the duo's first LP. This was filmed prior to the episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show that aired a week earlier, and in which they perform songs from their then-in-recording second LP. "A Summer Song" and "Yesterday's Gone" top and tail this episode, but only as extracts.
Distant Shores (from "Hollywood Palace", aired April 2nd 1966)
Martha Raye introduces Chad and Jeremy seen here having recently reunited after a several month absence from charts and screen. They perform "Distant Shores" here for the second time in under a month on network tv, yet it wouldn't be released as a single until June.
The Cruel War (from "Hullabaloo", aired November 29th 1965)
Chad and Jill Stuart's sole record outing, done to while away the hours while Jeremy was in London starring in a play. Although the song was recorded in October, and they were doing tv to promote it in November, Columbia Records didn't get off of their backsides until March of 1966 to release it as a single, by which time Peter Paul & Mary's version had been re-released and proved too strong of competition for this record. Yes, that's celebrity guest star Michael Landon introducing the duo.
Willow Weep For Me (from "Shindig!", aired November 25th 1964)
One of Chad and Jeremy's earliest tv appearances, singing their then-latest hit "Willow Weep For Me". Unlike quite a lot of the groups on these sorts of shows, there was no lipsynching for Messrs Stuart & Clyde. At least not yet, anyway.
Bite The Bullet (music video)
Chad & Jeremy's 1984 music video for "Bite the Bullet", their reunion single. The video stars Lauren Hutton, and was quite a big budget affair. In the early days of music video there wasn't a whole lot for burgeoning cable channels like VH1 and MTV to show, so despite the arguable failings of this song the video got quite a lot of airplay.
A fantastic over ten minute interview with Chad Stuart, provided by kind courtesy of Don P Hurley, who conducted the interview for the Ed Hurst Steel Pier Show - heard on Atlantic City's WIBG 1020 AM.
First made available as part of a Special Feature on the June 2003 rehearsals (for that Special feature click here),
this track is the first glimpse the public got of the duo in the 21st Century. They definitely still have it, and their performance of this "Of Cabbages And Kings" track is just as good now as it was nearly four decades ago.
When the time came for releasing the 1983 album, one bonus track had to be on there, but the only
existing tape was badly damaged. So Chad made an edit of it taking out the damaged sections (and sneakily adding handclap overdubs), for the CD release. Here is the
unedited version, with the instrumental break intact, but with the tape damage coming along for the ride. It was placed online as part of a Special Feature about the album, with my unedited liner notes (for that Special feature click here). It's a track that Chad wrote for a British TV show, and was actually never intended for a C&J project.
Here is a previously unheard outtake from a radio commercial
that was planned for the "Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde" LP. This hillarious piece was first made available online as part of a Special Feature about the 1983 LP (for that Special feature click here).
From the recent Special Feature called Rocshire Revisited (for that Special feature click here), here is
the rare interview first issued on the back of promotional copies of "Bite The Bullet" in 1983.
This track is the unreleased until 2002
Cabbages outtake, as featured in their December 14th, 1966 appearance on Batman. It is played as a musical
backdrop to C&J's mock press conference in "The Cat's Meow". This is the audio of the full "press conference" from the start of the song,
unlike a recent TV Land rerun which cut the last ten seconds of the track, and a funny one-liner from Chad!
This song, from the 1983 reunion LP,
should have been the title track and lead off single. It wasn't, and the
LP quickly sank into oblivion. Coincidence? You decide.
REAL VIDEO
Distant Shores (Hullabaloo; March
28th, 1966)
This clip
features C&J performing their latest single in the Fall of 1966.
Particularly interesting, for those who care, is that they are not
lipsynching the released record as was the usual in these sorts of shows, but are actually
singing to a slower, alternate backing track. That makes this version
totally unique!
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