{{short description|British musical duo}} {{Use British English|date=March 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Chad & Jeremy | image = Chad and Jeremy 1966 (cropped).JPG | caption = Chad & Jeremy performing for a television special at Marineland, 1966 | alt = Chad and Jeremy standing at a microphone, singing and playing guitars | image_size = 300px | origin = England | instrument = | years_active = 1962–1968, 1983–1987, 2003–2016 | genre = {{Hlist|Pop|folk}} | label = UK: Ember<br />US: World Artists, Capitol, Columbia, Sidewalk, Rocshire | associated_acts = | website = [http://www.chadandjeremy.net Chad & Jeremy official website] | past_members = * Chad Stuart * Jeremy Clyde }} '''Chad & Jeremy''' were a British musical duo consisting of Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde, who began working in 1962 and had their first hit song in the UK with "Yesterday's Gone" (1963). That song became a hit in the United States in the following year as part of the British Invasion. Unlike the rock-influenced beat music of their peers, Chad & Jeremy performed in a soft, folk-inflected style characterized by hushed and whispered vocals. The duo had a string of hits in the United States, including "Willow Weep for Me", "Before and After", and their biggest hit, "A Summer Song". After some commercial failures and divergent personal ambitions, Chad & Jeremy disbanded in 1968.
Chad Stuart continued to work in the music industry, while Jeremy Clyde became a film and stage actor. In the early 1980s, the duo reunited to record a new album and perform concerts, including a multi-band British Invasion nostalgia tour. After another long period of separation, in the early 2000s, Chad & Jeremy began performing again and developed a semi-regular tour schedule for many years. Chad Stuart retired in 2016 and died on December 20, 2020,<ref>{{cite news |last=Traub |first=Alex |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/arts/music/chad-stuart-dead.html |title=Chad Stuart, of the Hit British Duo Chad & Jeremy, Dies at 79 |work=The New York Times |date=22 December 2020 |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> while Jeremy Clyde continues to tour and record as a solo artist.
==Early years== Chad Stuart was born David Stuart Chadwick on 10 December 1941 in Windermere, Westmorland, and Jeremy Clyde was born Michael Thomas Jeremy Clyde on 22 March 1941 in Dorney, Buckinghamshire.<ref name="RhodenPrologue">{{cite web |url=http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/hist1.htm |title=Prologue (before 1964) |last=Rhoden |first=Frank Jason |date=2006 |website=Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde |publisher=Electric Paintbox |access-date=26 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402100803/http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/hist1.htm |archive-date=2 April 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The two met while attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama.<ref name="Thompson">{{Cite magazine |last=Thompson |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Thompson (author) |date=2003<!--As of access date, Rock's Backpages erroneously dates this as 2000.--> |title=The Chad and Jeremy Story |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-chad-and-jeremy-story |magazine=Goldmine |access-date=11 October 2018 |via=Rock's Backpages |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012054125/https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-chad-and-jeremy-story |archive-date=12 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Chad taught Jeremy to play the guitar. By 1962, they were performing together as a folk-music duo.<ref name="Thompson"/> They also formed a sideline project, a rock & roll band called the Jerks.<ref name="Thompson"/> After graduating from drama school, both musical groups were abandoned when Clyde left for Scotland to work for a short period at Dundee Repertory Theatre. Stuart worked in the music industry as a copyist and apprentice arranger.<ref name="RhodenPrologue"/> When Clyde returned, the pair resumed their folk act.<ref name="RhodenPrologue"/>
== Early career == Chad & Jeremy frequently performed in London at a basement coffeehouse called Tina's, where they were discovered by John Barry.<ref name="Bohen">{{Cite news |last=Bohen |first=Jim |date=18 September 2007 |title=Chad & Jeremy find new spark in reunion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647593/chad_and_jeremy/ |newspaper=Daily Record |location=Morristown, New Jersey |page=39 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410031744/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647593/chad_and_jeremy/ |archive-date=10 April 2019 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref> The influential composer quickly got them a contract with a small British record label, Ember.<ref name="Bohen"/> Their first single was "Yesterday's Gone", a Stuart composition that became their only hit record in the UK,<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited| location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| page= 537}}</ref> reaching No. 37 in December 1963.<ref name="UKchart">{{Cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10887/chad-stuart-and-jeremy-clyde/ |title=UK Official Charts |date=2018 |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=30 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411172434/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/10887/chad-stuart-and-jeremy-clyde/ |archive-date=11 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
As the duo recorded this song, they developed their trademark singing style: "whispering". "[John Barry] told us ... we sounded like a locker room full of football players ... in the end in desperation he said: 'Whisper it', so we kind of backed off a bit and so that sort of slightly ''sotto voce'' sound came about".<ref>{{cite interview |last=Stuart| first=Chad| subject-link=Chad & Jeremy| interviewer=Ed Hurst |title=''Steel Pier Radio Show'' |publisher=WBIG (AM) |date=18 October 2010 }}</ref> They developed a style in which Jeremy usually sang the melody while Chad sang the higher harmonies.<ref name="Sing for you">{{cite web |url=http://www.jasonrh.com/cj/cjliner.htm |title=Chad & Jeremy Liner Notes |last=Rhoden |first=Frank Jason |date=2009 |website=Jason's Chad & Jeremy Archive |access-date=27 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307132559/http://www.jasonrh.com/cj/cjliner.htm |archive-date=7 March 2016 }}</ref>
== British Invasion years == In 1964, Chad & Jeremy arrived in the United States as part of the British Invasion. According to Stuart, "We snuck in under the radar" because even though their folk songs and strings-backed ballads bore little resemblance to the rock music of most of their colleagues, they gained widespread acceptance in the US.<ref name="Bohen"/> "Yesterday's Gone" was released in the US by another small record label, World Artists Records, and rose to No. 21 in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.<ref name="Thompson"/><ref name="Hot100">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chad-jeremy/chart-history |title=Hot 100: Chad & Jeremy |date=2018 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=5 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407182041/https://www.billboard.com/music/chad-jeremy/chart-history |archive-date=7 April 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Their second US single, "A Summer Song" (produced by Shel Talmy), was a surprise hit that Chad & Jeremy had intended as an album track.<ref name="Thompson"/> World Artists, however, released it as a single and it rose to No. 7 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on 17 October 1964.<ref name="Thompson"/><ref name="Hot100"/>
They became World Artists' most bankable act; Stuart said: "After that, the record company goes, 'Gee whiz, we've got a goldmine here, so let's start churning out those ballads, boys!'{{sp}}"<ref name="Thompson"/> The next single was a cover version of an Ann Ronell standard "Willow Weep for Me" (produced by Shel Talmy), which reached No. 15 on the US Hot 100<ref name="Hot100"/> and No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.<ref name="EasyListen">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chad-jeremy/chart-history/asi/ |title=Adult Contemporary: Chad & Jeremy |date=2018 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=22 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511082302/https://www.billboard.com/music/chad-jeremy/chart-history/adult-contemporary |archive-date=11 May 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> All three hits were included on their 1964 debut album, ''Yesterday's Gone'',<ref name="AMYG">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000838753 |tab=Overview |label='Yesterday's Gone' |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |access-date=19 April 2019 }}</ref> which spent 39 weeks on the ''Billboard '' 200 and eventually peaked at No. 22.<ref name="BB200">{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chad-jeremy/chart-history/tlp/ |title=Billboard 200: Chad & Jeremy |date=2019 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=10 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806230520/https://www.billboard.com/music/chad-jeremy/chart-history/billboard-200 |archive-date=6 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== 1965 === In January 1965, Chad & Jeremy were in talks with a major label, Columbia Records. On 27 March, they signed a contract giving Columbia control over all Chad & Jeremy recordings retroactively to 1 January 1965.<ref name="BB0465">{{Cite magazine |date=17 April 1965 |title=It's Settled – Columbia Inks Chad & Jeremy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4 |magazine=Billboard |page=4 |access-date=22 April 2019 }}</ref> Before the end of 1964, however, the duo had made a new batch of recordings, giving the minor labels a backlog of material to release throughout the following months.<ref name="BB0465"/> The first World Artists single of 1965, the Rodgers and Hammerstein theatre song from Carousel named "If I Loved You", hit US No. 23 in April.<ref name="Hot100"/> Their follow-up singles were less successful: a Stuart and Clyde original, "What Do You Want With Me", peaked at US No. 51 in May, and a cover of Lennon and McCartney's "From a Window" peaked at No. 97 in the US in July.<ref name="Hot100"/> The latter two songs were included on the duo's second World Artists album ''Chad & Jeremy Sing For You'' (1965).<ref name="AMSFY">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0001304725 |tab=Overview |label='Chad & Jeremy Sing for You' |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |access-date=19 April 2019 }}</ref>
Columbia quickly released a new album, ''Before and After'', in June.<ref name="AM">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000661101 |tab=Overview |label='Before and After' |first=Richie |last=Unterberger |access-date=22 April 2019 }}</ref> The title track single "Before and After" peaked at US No. 17 almost immediately.<ref name="Hot100"/> That was followed just a few months later by ''I Don't Want to Lose You Baby''.<ref name="AMIDWT">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000345733 |tab=Overview |label='I Don't Want to Lose You Baby' |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |access-date=22 April 2019 }}</ref> The title track was composed by Van McCoy and preceded the album as a summer single, which peaked at US No. 35 in August.<ref name="Hot100"/> The next single, "I Have Dreamed", peaked at US No. 91 in November<ref name="Hot100"/> and at No. 22 on the Easy Listening chart.<ref name="EasyListen"/> Chad & Jeremy garnered some attention in Sweden when the B-side of "I Have Dreamed", "Should I" (written by the pair) was covered by the Hep Stars in a version which reached the top-5 in Sweden in early 1966.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Hallberg, Eric.|title=Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3 : Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962-19. 8. 1975.|date=1993|publisher=Drift Musik|isbn=91-630-2140-4|location=Värmdö|oclc=165178200}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Hallberg|first=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök 1961-74.|date=1998|publisher=Premium|others=Henningsson, Ulf, 1965-, Kristianstads boktr.|isbn=91-972712-5-X|edition=1. uppl|location=Stockholm|oclc=186200204}}</ref>
The duo went on a year-long hiatus in mid-1965 when Clyde accepted an acting role in a London stage production of ''The Passion Flower Hotel''.<ref name="Criscione">{{Cite magazine |last=Criscione |first=Louise |date=21 August 1965 |title=Chad & Jeremy: Chad Eyes Future Career During Split With Jeremy |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/chad--jeremy-chad-eyes-future-career-during-split-with-jeremy |magazine=KRLA Beat |location=Los Angeles, California |publisher=KRLA |access-date=29 September 2018 |via=Rock's Backpages |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929041332/https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/chad--jeremy-chad-eyes-future-career-during-split-with-jeremy |archive-date=29 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Clyde expressed his reasoning, and his regret, to an interviewer in 2014: {{Blockquote|text=It’s a question of values, isn’t it? ... I don’t think I realized how big we were in America. To me, it was starring in the West End, which sort of overrode everything in my value system ... Would I have done it now? No, probably not. I would not have let Chad down—which I did at the time—for which I was duly sorry. He came over here and we made an album [never released] while I was performing at night. We kept it all going, but I wouldn’t have done it that way now because I probably would have realized that we had this one shot at America and I would have stuck with that and hoped to get into the West End later.<ref name="Boron">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rebeatmag.com/the-many-sides-of-jeremy-clyde-part-one/ |title=The Many Sides of Jeremy Clyde – Part One |author=Boron, Allison Johnelle |date=2014 |website=Rebeat |access-date=22 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423022508/http://www.rebeatmag.com/the-many-sides-of-jeremy-clyde-part-one/ |archive-date=23 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
Stuart said, "I was the partner of an actor who was constantly threatening to leave the act, and did".<ref name="Bohen2">{{Cite news |last=Bohen |first=Jim |date=18 September 2007 |title=Chad & Jeremy find new spark in reunion (continued as 'Chad') |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647621/chad_and_jeremy/ |newspaper=Daily Record |location=Morristown, New Jersey |page=42 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510223648/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647621/chad_and_jeremy/ |archive-date=10 May 2019 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref> After finishing the album in London—most of which was scrapped—<ref name="RhodenPart3"/> he returned to the US and began working on music with his wife Jill.<ref name="Criscione"/> As '''Chad & Jill''', they performed the Chad & Jeremy songs "I Don't Want to Lose You Baby" and "Funny How Love Can Be" on the television show ''Shindig!'' in September.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/shindig/show-52-september-16-1965-the-byrds-the-mccoys-rolling-stones-ketty-lester-everly-brothers-99978/ |title=Shindig: Show 52: September 16, 1965 |date=2019 |publisher=CBS Interactive |website=TV.com |access-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501024058/http://www.tv.com/shows/shindig/show-52-september-16-1965-the-byrds-the-mccoys-rolling-stones-ketty-lester-everly-brothers-99978/ |archive-date=1 May 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In late November, Columbia arranged for Chad & Jill to sing on television again, this time a rendition of the folk music standard "The Cruel War" on ''Hullabaloo''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thevideobeat.com/rock-roll-tv/hullabaloo-11-12.html|title=The best quality episodes of Hullabaloo|publisher=The Video Beat|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425230011/https://www.thevideobeat.com/rock-roll-tv/hullabaloo-11-12.html|archive-date=25 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== 1966 === Clyde returned from London after about nine months away.<ref name="Bohen2"/> In February, Chad & Jeremy played at the 1966 Sanremo Music Festival, singing a version of Sergio Endrigo's composition "Adesso sì", which was released as a single by CBS Italy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Salvatori |first=Dario |title=Dizionario delle canzoni italiane |location=Rome |publisher=Elle u multimedia |year=2001 |isbn=8888169016 |chapter=Adesso sì}}</ref> Around the same time, Columbia released a new Chad and Jeremy single in the US, the Dylanesque "Teenage Failure",<ref name="Bohen2"/> which peaked at No. 131.<ref name="Whitburn76">{{Cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2008 |title=Joel Whitburn Presents Across the Charts: The 1960s |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OZ1DZ63NxAC&pg=PA76 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |page=76 |isbn=978-0898201758 }}</ref> In April, Columbia released Chad & Jill's "The Cruel War" as a single that is backed with "I Can't Talk to You".<ref name="Whitburn76"/> The single reached No. 110 on the ''Billboard'' Bubbling Under Hot 100.<ref name="Whitburn76"/> Jill, who had never sought the working partnership, was happy to let it go. Her husband later said, "I thought I needed to go out there with someone ... It really wasn't fair to expect her to do that".<ref name="RhodenPart2">{{cite web |url=http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/hist2.htm |title=Part Two (1964–1966) |last=Rhoden |first=Frank Jason |date=2006 |website=Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde |publisher=Electric Paintbox |access-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430233613/http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/hist2.htm |archive-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Chad & Jeremy began to work in earnest again and recorded the album ''Distant Shores'', which was released in August 1966.<ref name="AMDS">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000621457 |tab=Overview |label='Distant Shores' |first=Bruce |last=Eder }}</ref> The title song was composed by their bassist James William Guercio, who later enjoyed fame as a producer for Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |author-link=Richie Unterberger |editor1-first=Vladimir |editor1-last=Bogdanov |editor2-first=Stephen Thomas |editor2-last=Erlewine |editor3-first=Chris |editor3-last=Woodstra |year=2002 |title=All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-pH4i3jXvAC&pg=PA195 |location=Milwaukee |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |page=195 |isbn=087930653X }}</ref> "Distant Shores" was their last Top 40 hit; it reached US No. 30 in August while a second single "You Are She" peaked at No. 87 in November.<ref name="Hot100"/>
Chad & Jeremy were far more popular in the US than at home.<ref name="Thompson"/> The duo had 11 songs enter the US Hot 100—seven of which peaked in the Top 40—between 1964 and 1966.<ref name="Hot100"/> In February 1966, the British music magazine ''NME'' said the duo had applied for US citizenship and that as American citizens, they would be eligible for military conscription and they had no wish to fight in the Vietnam War. The practicalities of constantly renewing US work permits were problematic.<ref name="NME Rock 'N' Roll Years">{{cite book| first= John| last= Tobler| year= 1992| title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years| edition= 1st| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd| location= London| page= 155| id= CN 5585}}</ref>
=== Television work === [[File:Patty Duke Jeremy Clyde Patty Duke Show 1965.JPG|thumb|upright|Promotional photo of Clyde with Patty Duke (1965)|alt=Patty Duke holds a microphone stand for Jeremy as he tunes his guitar]]
During the mid-1960s, Chad & Jeremy made several television guest appearances. They portrayed a fictional singing duo called "The Redcoats" (Freddy and Ernie) on the 10 February 1965 episode of the sitcom ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' that satirised Beatlemania. "I Don't Want No Other Baby But You" and "My, How the Time Goes By" were featured in that episode.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_dick_van_dyke_show/s04/e20 |title=The Dick Van Dyke Show: "The Redcoats Are Coming" |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media |access-date=6 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207121753/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_dick_van_dyke_show/s04/e20 |archive-date=7 February 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> One week later, they appeared on ''The Patty Duke Show'' as "Nigel & Patrick", an unknown British singing duo in need of promotion and sang the song "The Truth Often Hurts The Heart" (twice), which was inexplicably never issued as a single.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://purpleclover.littlethings.com/entertainment/6460-tvs-best-pop-star-cameos/item/chad-jeremy-patty-duke-wiki/ |title=15 TV Cameos by Music Legends |author=Birmingham, John |date=5 February 2018 |website=Purple Clover |access-date=4 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205012402/https://purpleclover.littlethings.com/entertainment/6460-tvs-best-pop-star-cameos/item/chad-jeremy-patty-duke-wiki/ |archive-date=5 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In an interview marking the 50th anniversary of the show's debut, Patty Duke said of that particular episode; "I was obsessed with them ... that was a big week for me".<ref>{{Cite news |last=King |first=Susan |date=6 July 2013 |title=Remembering 'The Patty Duke Show', 50 Years Later |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/remembering-the-patty-duke-show-50-years-later/2013/07/03/4e4513ae-df3c-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=4 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425054614/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/remembering-the-patty-duke-show-50-years-later/2013/07/03/4e4513ae-df3c-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html |archive-date=25 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
They were guest stars on an episode of ''Laredo''—"That's Noway, Thataway", first broadcast on 20 January 1966—in which they played destitute English actors travelling through the Old West.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/laredo/thats-noway-thataway-128046/cast/ |title=Laredo: That's Noway, Thataway |date=2019 |website=TV.com |access-date=14 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103102547/http://www.tv.com/shows/laredo/thats-noway-thataway-128046/cast/ |archive-date=3 January 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/laredo/episode-18-season-1/thats-noway-thataway/202592/ |title=Laredo: Episode 18, Season 1 |date=2019 |website=TV Guide |access-date=14 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415022419/https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/laredo/episode-18-season-1/thats-noway-thataway/202592/ |archive-date=15 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The episode was intended as a pilot for a Chad & Jeremy television show that was titled ''Paleface'' but was never produced.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Terrace |first=Vincent |year=2013 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937–2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHsjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=223 |isbn=9780786474455 }}</ref>
The duo appeared as themselves in the December 1966 episodes "The Cat's Meow" and "The Bat's Kow Tow" of the television series ''Batman'', in which the guest villain was Julie Newmar as Catwoman.<ref name="DeCandido">{{Cite web |url=https://www.tor.com/2016/06/24/holy-rewatch-batman-the-cats-meow-the-bats-kow-tow/ |title=Holy Rewatch Batman! "The Cat's Meow" / "The Bat's Kow Tow" |author=DeCandido, Keith R. A. |date=24 June 2016 |website=Tor.com |access-date=4 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425061944/https://www.tor.com/2016/06/24/holy-rewatch-batman-the-cats-meow-the-bats-kow-tow/ |archive-date=25 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In this two-part storyline, Catwoman's master plan includes "stealing" the voices of Chad & Jeremy.<ref name="DeCandido"/> During "The Bat's Kow-Tow", the duo sang "Distant Shores" and "Teenage Failure".<ref name="DeCandido"/>
Separately, Stuart did a little voice acting, appearing as a vulture in Walt Disney's 1967 film ''The Jungle Book''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/walt-disneys-the-jungle-book-soundtrack-on-records/ |title=Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book' Soundtrack on Records |author=Ehrbar, Greg |date=24 July 2018 |website=Cartoonresearch.com |access-date=10 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211005237/http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/walt-disneys-the-jungle-book-soundtrack-on-records/ |archive-date=11 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The same year, Clyde appeared on his own in a Season 8 episode of ''My Three Sons''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/my-three-sons/episode-16-season-8/liverpool-saga/100316/ |title=My Three Sons: Season 8, Episode 16 Liverpool Saga |date=2019 |website=TV Guide |access-date=6 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124103/https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/my-three-sons/episode-16-season-8/liverpool-saga/100316/ |archive-date=9 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Late 1960s and breakup ==
In late 1967, Chad & Jeremy released the psychedelic album ''Of Cabbages and Kings'' as "Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde", and a 1968 follow-up called ''The Ark''. The albums received critical acclaim but were commercial failures.<ref name="Thompson"/>
In 1968, they collaborated for the film soundtrack of ''Three in the Attic'', which stars Christopher Jones and Yvette Mimieux.<ref name="Johnson">{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Jared |date=10 May 1969 |title=Chad and Jeremy Score in a Movie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647550/chad_and_jeremy/ |newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution |location=Atlanta, Georgia |page=65 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=31 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205231725/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647550/chad_and_jeremy/ |archive-date=5 December 2018 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref> They recorded several new songs for the film and Stuart composed an instrumental backing score.<ref name="Johnson"/> The complete soundtrack was released in the US on Sidewalk Records in 1969<ref name="AMattic">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0002541646 |tab=Releases |label=3 in the Attic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |access-date=31 October 2018 }}</ref> and features the duo's version of "Paxton's Song (Smoke)", which was sung by Jones in the film.<ref name="Johnson"/> By the end of 1968, however, the working relationship between Stuart and Clyde had dissolved.<ref name="Whitburn75">{{Cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |year=2008 |title=Joel Whitburn Presents Across the Charts: The 1960s |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OZ1DZ63NxAC&pg=PA75 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |page=75 |isbn=978-0898201758 }}</ref><ref name="RhodenPart3">{{cite web |url=http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/hist3.htm |title=Part Three (1966–1968) |last=Rhoden |first=Frank Jason |date=2006 |website=Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde |publisher=Electric Paintbox |access-date=30 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430233618/http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/hist3.htm |archive-date=30 April 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In later years Stuart said there was regret for the breakup<ref name="Arnold1">{{Cite news |last=Arnold |first=Thomas K. |date=12 November 1986 |title=Chad Hopes to Ride Past to New Hits |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647461/chad_and_jeremy/ |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |page=VI:1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=30 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231003401/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647461/chad_and_jeremy/ |archive-date=31 December 2018 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref> but at the time the pair suffered from "fatigue and burn-out".<ref name="Arnold2">{{Cite news |last=Arnold |first=Thomas K. |date=12 November 1986 |title=Chad Hopes to Ride Past to New Hits (continued as Chad and Jeremy Hope to Turn Past into Future)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647391/chad_and_jeremy/ |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |page=VI:7 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=30 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231004742/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24647391/chad_and_jeremy/ |archive-date=31 December 2018 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref> Cost overruns in the making of ''The Ark'' had soured relations with Columbia and left the two in debt;<ref name="Thompson"/> according to Stuart they were constantly "pushed around by accountants and lawyers".<ref name="Arnold2"/> Clyde announced he was returning to the theatre and Columbia management reacted by suspending the duo's contract.<ref name="Thompson"/> Stuart said he and Clyde "very foolishly tore up" their contract and parted.<ref name="Arnold2"/> He said, "Our attitudes were, 'Who needs you?' Looking back though, we never should have done that. We should have kept it up. But we were only kids."<ref name="Arnold2"/>
== 1980s reunion ==
After the split, Clyde returned to England and took up acting as a full-time vocation. He enjoyed great success and made several returns to New York in Broadway theater productions.<ref name="Arnold2"/> In 1970, he began a well-received starring role in ''Conduct Unbecoming'' at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Klemesrud |first=Judy |date=22 November 1970 |title=Two Rock Stars Roll on Broadway |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/22/archives/two-rock-stars-roll-on-broadway.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D5 |access-date=5 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207020847/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/22/archives/two-rock-stars-roll-on-broadway.html |archive-date=7 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Stuart remained in the US with plans to continue in the music industry in background roles such as arrangement and production. His first job was as music director for the Smothers Brothers' television show. He later served as a staff producer for A&M Records.<ref name="Arnold2"/> The pair met again in 1977 to record a few demos, but the collaboration was brief, and no recordings were released.<ref name="Thompson"/>
In 1982, Chad & Jeremy reunited to record the album ''Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde'', which was released the following year on the MCA-distributed label Rocshire Records.<ref name="Thompson"/> This album was released in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3474170-Chad-Jeremy-Chad-Stuart-Jeremy-Clyde/image/SW1hZ2U6MTE3MDExMjc=|title=Chad & Jeremy - Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde Record Label Photo (Side A)|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=August 1, 2023}}</ref> A music video was filmed for the single "Bite The Bullet".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/sounds.htm|title=Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde - Songs and Videos|website=chadandjeremy.net|accessdate=August 1, 2023}}</ref> Plans for a second album in 1984 were advancing when the label suddenly went bankrupt<ref name="Thompson"/> due to legal issues surrounding the label's owners.<ref>{{cite web |last=Knoedelseder Jr |first=WM |date=March 13, 1985 |title=Judge Imposes Prison Terms in Rocshire Case |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-13-fi-22195-story.html |accessdate=August 1, 2023 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> The pair starred in the West End production of ''Pump Boys and Dinettes'' from 1984 to 1985.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/pumpboysanddinettes.html |title=Pump Boys and Dinettes |date=2018 |website=ThisIsTheatre.com |access-date=17 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918022431/http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/pumpboysanddinettes.html |archive-date=18 September 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Returning to the US in 1986 for a British Invasion reunion tour, Chad & Jeremy played 33 cities in six weeks alongside Freddie and the Dreamers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers and the Mindbenders.<ref name="Thompson"/> In his review of the show at New York City's Felt Forum, music journalist Jeff Tamarkin wrote: "The evening's unquestionable highlight was the set from Chad (Stuart) & Jeremy (Clyde), which featured such soft, folky hits as 'A Summer Song' and 'Yesterday's Gone', and even a few obscurities from their later career. The duo's harmonies were sweet, their young band tight, and their lack of tacky cover songs refreshing."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Tamarkin |first=Jeff |author-link=Jeff Tamarkin |date=8 November 1986 |title=Chad & Jeremy, the Mindbenders, Freddie & the Dreamers, Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Searchers: The British Invasion — Felt Forum, New York NY |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/chad--jeremy-the-mindbenders-freddie--the-dreamers-gerry--the-pacemakers-the-searchers-the-british-invasion--felt-forum-new-york-ny |magazine=Billboard |access-date=11 October 2018 |via=Rock's Backpages |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012094446/https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/chad--jeremy-the-mindbenders-freddie--the-dreamers-gerry--the-pacemakers-the-searchers-the-british-invasion--felt-forum-new-york-ny |archive-date=12 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1987, Chad & Jeremy performed a two-week residency at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, before parting again.<ref name="Thompson"/>
==2000s and later== thumb|Chad and Jeremy performing in 2005|alt=Chad and Jeremy seated on stools, singing and playing guitars
In 2002, Stuart was in his private studio preparing the release of a recording from the Harrah's engagement when Clyde visited and the two recorded a new version of "Yesterday's Gone" as a bonus track for the album ''In Concert (The Official Bootleg)''.<ref name="Thompson"/> In 2003, PBS reunited Chad & Jeremy in the ''60s Pop-Rock Reunion'' special, which also prompted a concert tour the next year.<ref name="Boron"/> They rerecorded a number of their 1960s songs and dubbed the resulting album ''Ark-eology''; it was released in 2008, the 40th anniversary of ''The Ark''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2008/11/chad-jeremy-return-with-ark-eology.html |title=Chad & Jeremy Return With ARK-eology |date=11 November 2008 |website=VintageVinylNews.com |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713224209/https://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2008/11/chad-jeremy-return-with-ark-eology.html |archive-date=13 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Chad & Jeremy performed at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chad-stuart-of-chad-and-jeremy-perform-at-the-ascap-music-news-photo/130412233 |title=2009 Sundance Film Festival - Music Cafe - Day 2 |date=2019 |website=GettyImages.com |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713225612/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chad-stuart-of-chad-and-jeremy-perform-at-the-ascap-music-news-photo/130412233 |archive-date=13 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In September 2010, Chad & Jeremy marked the anniversary of their first meeting with a limited-edition CD entitled ''Fifty Years On''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/lp18.htm |title=Fifty Years On |date=2010 |publisher=Electric Paintbox |website=Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802014935/http://www.chadandjeremy.net/cj/lp18.htm |archive-date=2 August 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
After 15 years of semi-regular touring, Stuart retired to his home in Sun Valley, Idaho.<ref name="Admin">{{Cite web |url=http://music-illuminati.com/interview-jeremy-clyde/ |title=Interview: Jeremy Clyde |author=Admin |date=6 November 2018 |website=Music-Illuminati.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202050627/http://music-illuminati.com/interview-jeremy-clyde/ |archive-date=2 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Clyde now tours as a solo artist with a backing band, interlacing Chad & Jeremy songs with newer music from his own multi-album series, ''The Bottom Drawer Sessions''.<ref name="Admin"/> He also tours as part of a duo, performing nostalgic concerts with one of his oldest friends, Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon.<ref name="Admin"/>
Stuart died on 20 December 2020, from pneumonia following a fall.<ref>[https://bestclassicbands.com/chad-stuart-obituary-12-20-20/ "Chad Stuart, of Britain’s Chad & Jeremy Duo, Dead at 79", ''BestClassicBands'', 20 December 2020]. Retrieved 20 December 2020</ref>
==Discography== ===Studio albums=== * ''Yesterday's Gone'' (24th July 1964) US No. 22<ref name="Whitburn Albums">{{cite book| last = Whitburn| first = Joel| title = Top Pop Albums 1955-2016| publisher = Prometheus Global Media| year = 2018| isbn = 978-0-89820-226-7}}</ref> - released in Britain as ''Chad & Jeremy Sing For You'' (1965) * ''Chad & Jeremy Sing for You'' (20th March 1965) US No. 69<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> - released in Britain as ''Second Album'' (1966) * ''Before and After'' (25th May 1965) US No. 37<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> * ''I Don't Want to Lose You Baby'' (27th September 1965) US No. 77<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> * ''Distant Shores'' (15th August 1966) US No. 61<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> * ''Of Cabbages and Kings'' (11th September 1967) US No. 186<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> * ''The Ark'' (15th August 1968) * ''3 in the Attic'' (December 1968) * ''Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde'' (15th November 1983) * ''Ark-eology'' (21st October 2008) * ''Fifty Years On'' (2010)
===Live album=== * ''In Concert (The Official Bootleg)'' (2002)
===Compilations=== * ''The Best of Chad & Jeremy'' (Capitol, 1966) US No. 49<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> * ''More Chad & Jeremy'' (Capitol, 1966) US No. 144<ref name="Whitburn Albums" /> * ''The Best of Chad & Jeremy'' (K-Tel, 1990) * ''The Very Best of Chad & Jeremy'' (Varèse Sarabande, 2000) * ''Now and Forever'' (Acrobat, 2007) * ''Yesterday's Gone: The Complete Ember & World Artists Recordings'' (RPM, 2016)
===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Songs<br /><small>Both sides from same album except where indicated</small> ! <small> UK <br />Singles Chart<ref name="UKchart"/></small> ! <small>Canada<br />CHUM Chart<br>''RPM'' 100</small> ! <small>U.S.<br/>Hot 100<ref name="Hot100"/></small> ! <small>U.S.<br/>AC<ref name="EasyListen"/></small> ! Album |- |1963 | "Yesterday's Gone"<br /><small>b/w "Lemon Tree" (from ''More Chad & Jeremy'')</small> |align="center"| 37 |align="center"| 20 |align="center"| 21 |align="center"| – |align="center" rowspan="4"|''Yesterday's Gone'' |- |rowspan="3"|1964 | "Like I Love You Today"<br /><small>b/w "Early in the Morning" (Non-LP track)</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |- | "A Summer Song" <br /><small>b/w "No Tears for Johnnie"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 6 |align="center"| 7 |align="center"| 2 |- | "Willow Weep for Me" <br /><small>b/w "If She Was Mine"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 13 |align="center"| 15 |align="center"| 1 |- |rowspan="7"|1965 | "If I Loved You"<br /><small>b/w "Donna, Donna" (from ''Chad & Jeremy Sing for You'')</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 16 |align="center"| 23 |align="center"| 6 |align="center"|''The Best of Chad & Jeremy'' |- | "What Do You Want with Me?"<br /><small>b/w "A Very Good Year" (from ''More Chad & Jeremy'')</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 5 |align="center"| 51 |align="center"| 9 |align="center"|''Chad & Jeremy Sing for You'' |- | "Before and After"<br /><small>b/w "Fare Thee Well (I Must Be Gone)"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 31 |align="center"| 17 |align="center"| 4 |align="center"|''Before and After'' |- | "From a Window"<br /><small>b/w "My Coloring Book"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 38 |align="center"| 97 |align="center"| – |align="center"|''Chad & Jeremy Sing for You'' |- | "I Don't Wanna Lose You Baby"<br /><small>b/w "Pennies" (Non-LP track)</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 13 |align="center"| 35 |align="center"| – |align="center"|''I Don't Want to Lose You Baby'' |- | "September in the Rain"<br /><small>b/w "Only for the Young"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"|''Yesterday's Gone'' |- | "I Have Dreamed"<br /><small>b/w "Should I"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| 91 |align="center"| 22 |align="center"|''I Don't Want to Lose You Baby'' |- |rowspan="4"|1966 | "Teenage Failure"<br /><small>b/w "Early Mornin' Rain" (from ''Distant Shores'')</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"|Non-album single |- | "Distant Shores"<br /><small>b/w "Last Night" (Non-LP track)</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| 16 |align="center"| 30 |align="center"| – |align="center" rowspan="2"|''Distant Shores'' |- | "You Are She"<br /><small>b/w "I Won't Cry"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| 87 |align="center"| – |- | "Adesso Sì"<br /><small>b/w "Nessuno Più Di Me"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| - |align="center"| – |align="center"|Non-album single; Italy only<br />(Sanremo Music Festival, 1966) |- |1967 | "Painted Dayglow Smile"<br /><small>b/w "Editorial (Vocal)" (from ''Of Cabbages and Kings'')</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"|''The Ark'' |- |1968 | "Sister Marie"<br /><small>b/w "Rest in Peace" (from ''Of Cabbages and Kings'')</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"|Non-album single |- |1969 | "Paxton Quigley's Had the Course"<br /><small>b/w "You Need Feet (You Need Hands)"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"|''The Ark'' |- |1983 | "Zanzibar Sunset"<br /><small>b/w "Dreams"</small> |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"|''Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde'' |}
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==External links== {{Commons category|Chad & Jeremy}} * [http://www.chadandjeremy.net Chad & Jeremy official site] * {{Discogs artist|Chad & Jeremy}} * {{IMDb name|id=4900832}} * {{IMDb title|0671909|"The Patty Duke Show": "Patty Pits Wits, Two Brits Hits" (1965)}} * {{IMDb title|0559839|"The Dick Van Dyke Show": "The Redcoats are Coming" (1965)}}
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