ARMS OF MARY – SUTHERLAND BROTHERS & QUIVER

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
03-Sep-76	19	New
10-Sep-76	14	+5	Biggest climber/Star rater
17-Sep-76	5	+9	Biggest climber/Star rater
24-Sep-76	3	+2	Peak
01-Oct-76	3	0	Peak
08-Oct-76	4	-1
15-Oct-76	4	0
22-Oct-76	3	+1	Peak
29-Oct-76	4	-1
05-Nov-76	6	-2
12-Nov-76	8	-2
19-Nov-76	10	-2
26-Nov-76	13	-3
03-Dec-76	17	-4

Written by: Iain Sutherland
Produced by: Howard & Ron Albert
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): CBS

Hit number for artist	1
Peak position	3
Weeks	14
Biggest climber awards	2
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest faller awards	0
Top 20 points	181
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=498
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	321
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=532
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1976

15

Other chart success:

Australia	28
Belgium	1
Germany	17
Ireland	1
Netherlands	1
New Zealand	32
UK	5
US	81
Zimbabwe	2

SA Radio charts:

Radio 5

16

Canadian band Chilliwack would see a cover of the song go to 67 in the US and 49 in Canada while Dutch singer Peet Veerman would get to 44 with his version in 1992. In 2015 Belgian singer Willy Sommers took a cover to 15 in Belgium.

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Artist link: Sutherland Brothers & Quiver

SUTHERLAND BROTHERS & QUIVER (UK)

The Sutherland brothers were Gavin and Iain Sutherland who came from Aberdeenshire in Scotland. They started singing together in 1968. After putting out a single called ‘Smokie Blues Away’, they formed The Sutherland Brothers Band by adding Kim Ludman and Neil Hopwood to their line up. They would see a minor hit in Australia with ‘The Pie’ which went to 34 in 1972. Their follow up single was ‘Sailing’ which would bubble under the UK charts (apparently getting to number 54 when the charts were just a top 50). Three years later Rod Stewart would take a cover of the song to the top of the charts in at least 5 countries, one of which was the UK. In 1973 the Sutherland Brothers would team up with the group Quiver. Tim Renwick from the band, would go on to work with Al Stewart and Pink Floyd while Bruce Thomas would join Elvis Costello’s backing band, The Attractions. Before that happened, the combined group of Sutherland Brothers and Quiver would score 2 UK hits (‘Arms Of Mary’ (#5) and ‘Secrets’ (#35)) and 2 US hits (‘(I Don’t Want To Love You But) You Got Me Anyway’ (#48) and ‘Arms Of Mary’ (#84). After this, the Sutherland Brothers would revert to working as a duo and would score 1 further UK hit (‘Easy Come Easy Go’ (#50)).

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
03-Sep-1976	Arms Of Mary	3	14
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	14

Biggest climber awards	2
Star rater climbs	2
Biggest fallers	0
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	14
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	543
Top 20 points ranking	=482
Top 30 points	321
Top 20 points	181

Quiver’s Tim Renwick would play guitar on the following Andy Gibb Hit:

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
01-Sep-1978	Shadow Dancing	4	17
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	17

Total chart involvement by the band and its members:

Number of hits	2
Weeks	31

Renwick would play on Frankie Miller’s album which included his hit ‘Darlin’ and a number of Quiver Members would play on Al Stewart’s ‘Year Of The Cat’ which included his SA Chart hit ‘Sand In Your Shoes’ but I have not been able to verify that any of them played on these particular tracks. If they did, then the total chart involvement stats would be 4 hits and 59 weeks.