I enjoy telling college students about music artists who were popular decades ago, “Chad and Jeremy” are among those. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn points out that Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde were a folk-rock duo from London.
Chad and Jeremy’s talents go together like clean socks. C and J’s first hit song debuted on the Top 40 one week before the first day of the summer of 1964. I still find it hard to believe that “Yesterday’s Gone” peaked only halfway up the Top 40 and was only on the 40 for six weeks. At the end of that summer, “A Summer Song” appeared on the Top 40 and remained for nine weeks, peaking at No. 7.
“Willow Weep for Me” made the Top 40 during the Christmas season of 1964, peaking at the No. 15 position. In 1965 and 1966, Chad and Jeremy had four more hit songs, one being a number from a Broadway musical.
1. This Broadway musical was adapted from Ferenc Molnar’s “Liliom”:
A. “Song of Norway”
B. “Oklahoma!”
C. “Carousel”
D. “West Side Story”
E.”Allegro”
2. A wistful or sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrevocable condition:
A. ubiquity
B. nostalgia
C. modernity
D. memorabilia
E. Americana
3. Which one is the title of a Chad and Jeremy song?
A. “One Bad Apple”
B. “Distant Shores”
C. “Lady Godiva”
D. “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing”
E. “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
4. sentiment (SEN-tuh-mint)
A. an attitude, thought or judgment, prompted by feeling
B. emotional idealism
C. a specific view or notion
D. an idea colored by emotion
ANSWERS
No. 1 is C. A hit song by Chad and Jeremy is “If I Loved You” from “Carousel.”
No. 2 is B. Thanks to Merriam-Webster for the definition of nostalgia.
No. 3 is B.
All four are correct for No. 4; thanks to Merriam-Webster. I would like for you to watch a YouTube video featuring photos of the world-renowned English duo. Google “Willow Weep for Me- Chad & Jeremy.” A viewer posted this sentiment: “One of the most beautiful love songs ever written! It takes me back to the hopes I had that never came to be!”
Editor’s Note: Don Rodney Vaughan, Ph.D., teaches journalism, interpersonal communication and public speaking at East Mississippi Community College and is the pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church in Webster County. Contact him at dvaughan@eastms.edu.
