Middle Of The Road: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep / Acceleration / Drive On, 2CD
Middle Of The Road

RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2010

• 41 track round up of every track recorded by Middle Of The Road in the early 70’s for RCA Records with most appearing here on CD for the first time

• Includes the international chart topper ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ which hit No.1 in the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Ireland and Australia and No 2 in Holland and Germany

• Other hits featured include: ‘Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum’ – UK No.2, Germany No.15, Australia No.5 Norway No.6 Holland No.7; ‘Soley Soley’ – UK No.5, Germany No.2, Holland No.1, Norway No.1, Australia No.21, Switzerland No.1; ‘Sacremento’ – UK No.23, Germany No.1, Switzerland No.1, Norway No.1; ‘Samson & Delilah’ – France No.2, Germany No.2, Holland No.1, Switzerland No.3, UK No.26; ‘Bottoms Up’ – Germany No.2, Holland No.5, Norway No.8, Australia No.35; ‘Yellow Boomerang’ – Germany No.6, Holland No.2, Switzerland No.2, Norway No.8 and German Top 20’s with ‘Kailakee Kailako’ and ‘Honey No’

• Deluxe booklet contains detailed liner notes and stacks of rare picture sleeves

• Vocalist Sally Carr still leads a version of Middle Of The Road on the lucrative Oldies Night circuit performing to large audiences across mainland Europe

TRACKLIST

DISC ONE

CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP

1. CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP
2. LINGERING SOUNDS
3. FATE STRANGE FATE
4. I CAN’T TELL THE BOTTOM FROM THE TOP
5. TO REMIND ME
6. THE SUN IN YOUR SKIN
7. TWEEDLE DEE, TWEEDLE DUM
8. GIVE IT TIME
9. RAININ’ N PAININ’
10. YELLOW RIVER
11. THE WAY OF LIFE
12. WE ARE THE FOUNDERS OF ALL THAT’S AROUND US

BONUS ITALIAN LP TRACKS

13. EL CONDOR PASA
14. DO NOT CRY
15. HAPPIER THAN I
16. AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH
17. PLACE
18. SUPERSTAR

DISC TWO

ACCELERATION

1. SACREMENTO
2. ON THIS LAND
3. QUEEN BEE
4. LOVE SWEET LOVE
5. THEN YOU’LL KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
6. SOLEY, SOLEY
7. THE TALK OF ALL THE U.S.A.
8. LOUISE (MY LITTLE SHIP)
9. SAMSON AND DELILAH
10. TRY A LITTLE UNDERSTANDING
11. MEDICINE WOMAN

DRIVE ON

12. YELLOW BOOMERANG
13. UNIVERSAL MAN
14. SEE THE SKY
15. WHEEL OF THE SEASON
16. BLIND DETONATION
17. UNION SILVER
18. HONEY NO
19. EVE
20. ON A WESTBOUND TRAIN
21. BOTTOMS UP
22. NOTHING CAN GO WRONG
23. KAILAKEE KAILAKO