Chad Stuart, the bespectacled half of the 1960's British Invasion folk pop duo Chad and Jeremy, passed away yesterday of pneumonia. Stuart turned 79 earlier this month.
Chad and Jeremy had a string of transatlantic hits during the early to mid 1960's - "Yesterday's Gone", "A Summer Song", "A Willow Weep for Me" and "What Do You Want From Me?" most of which were either written or co-written by Stuart. During this period, Chad and Jeremy made appearances on U.S. TV shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Patty Duke Show, Laredo and Batman.
The duo moved from gentle ballads and covering standards to psychedelic music without much success although "Paxton Quigley's Had The Course" is quite the gem and recently got second life as part of the 2019 Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
As for Chad and Jeremy, they would split up at the end of the 1960's, record an album of new material in the early 1980's, would join the nostalgia circuit later in the decade. The two would reunite to tour regularly in the 2000's until Stuart retired in 2016. At which point, Jeremy Clyde would begin a collaboration with Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon fame.
I leave you with Chad and Jeremy singing "A Teenage Failure" during their 1966 guest appearance on Batman. R.I.P.
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