Thursday music corner: English pop band Unit 4+2 weren't, strictly speaking, a one-hit wonder, having scored two UK top 40 singles, but their 1965 chart-topper Concrete and Clay is the only indelible contribution the band made to the 1960s pop scene. The single hit number 1 on 10 April 1965, supplanting the Rolling Stones' The Last Time, and the band appeared on Top of the Pops on 3 June 1965. Concrete and Clay also reached number one in Canada and was a middling hit in both Australia and the US. In America its chart success was limited by a pre-emptive cover version by an American producer.
Unit 4+2 released two albums and 12 singles; the other chart success was Concrete and Clay's follow-up, (You've) Never Been in Love Like This Before, which reached number 14 in the UK. The band dissolved in 1970.
Unit 4+2 - Concrete and Clay (1965)
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