MR. BLOE (UK)

Mr Bloe were a UK studio group specifically brought together to record the track ‘Groovin’ With Mr Bloe’. The song had first appeared on the b-side of a single by an American band called Wind which featured Tony Orlando. When it was accidentally played on the Radio in the UK instead of the a-side it was heard by Stephen James of Dick James records and he wanted to release the track as a single in the UK, but could not get the rights to that performance, so arranged for a studio group to record it. The initial group included Elton John on piano, but they didn’t like that version, so it was re-recorded with a guy called Zack Laurence on piano. The song would go to number 2 in the UK and would be one of the top 20 best performing songs in the UK in 1970 (according to my records, 15^th best based on a Top 100 points basis). Mr Bloe would see further releases, including a single with both sides written by Elton John (’71-75 New Oxford’/’Get Out (Of This Town)’).

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
10-Jul-1970	Groovin’ With Mr Bloe	7	6
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	6

Biggest climber awards	1
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest fallers	1
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	6
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	965
Top 20 points ranking	=878
Top 30 points	116
Top 20 points	56