Both the female vocalists were called Martha. The 'main' Martha' is Martha Johnson on keyboards. Just to add more confusion, the other Martha, Martha Ladly sometimes played keyboards instead on some other tracks, such as Echo Beach. Martha Ladly spent a lot of time in the UK involved with other projects and came up with the name of the OMD album Architecture & Morality.
Blonde Martha was the smart Martha, University scholar, artiste, lecturer, president of Ottawa university, filmmaker..... French Canadian Martha was the front woman along with frontman Mark Gane correct me if I'm wrong (70 i am)
Poor old cheggers, looking so young and fresh. He died a few years back.....too many cigarettes. What a great band. This is their follow up single to "echo beach". This deserved to be a hit as well....the muffins were too good to be classed as one hit wonders Am releasing this song again with "echo beach" and "women working around the world" and "hide and seek". Gavin wood will be calling this as a chartbuster very shortly. Day 6951. 993 weeks. Raw honey and all of my urine til 2.00pm then dried and fresh figs and sprouts and sultana grapes then more urine then fresh fruit and vegetables and other foods at 8.00pm. No change.
i dont think they did , infact id say it was the record industry what missed it . The band would have been reliant on their Record company back in those days .
@@JHatLpool There almost isn't a Canadian band this _isn't_ the story of, especially in the '80s. For whatever reason, marketing execs thought that they needed to promote Canadian artists only in Canada. Harm themselves by limiting the advertising. Gowan, Chalk Circle, these guys, the Northern Pikes all could likely have made an impact internationally had they gotten support. Martha & the Muffins kinda fizzled out & the lead singer & one member continued as M+M for a short while.
Some of the band were involved with other projects so weren't reliant on this band for income. There was quite a lot of changearound of members so some people weren't in the band for long. Their first album (including Echo Beach) and one of the others were recorded in the UK as there was quite a lot of UK record industry interest in them.
I'm not sure which country you're in but only Echo Beach was a big hit in the UK. Saigon didn't go far up the UK charts. I'm not sure how it fared in other countries.
It is interesting, especially on a children's show, but it's probably because they were using it in the traditional sense, not the more modern insult sense of the word.
Sadly, Martha Johnson has suffered with Parkinsons for a long time. Her symptoms are less severe than with many though, so she can still sing at least despite being slowed down a lot.
Thanks for that. I hadn't seen that clip before.
Both the female vocalists were called Martha. The 'main' Martha' is Martha Johnson on keyboards. Just to add more confusion, the other Martha, Martha Ladly sometimes played keyboards instead on some other tracks, such as Echo Beach. Martha Ladly spent a lot of time in the UK involved with other projects and came up with the name of the OMD album Architecture & Morality.
Martha Ladly played the keyboard in The Associates, notably in Party Fears Two.
Martha L is / was an incredible musician.
I had a crazy crush on her especially in party fears two
@@JasonJason210 Wow ! That is a great song !
Main Martha and Hot Martha.😊
Blonde Martha was the smart Martha, University scholar, artiste, lecturer, president of Ottawa university, filmmaker.....
French Canadian Martha was the front woman along with frontman Mark Gane correct me if I'm wrong (70 i am)
What makes Montreal Martha not smart?
Poor old cheggers, looking so young and fresh. He died a few years back.....too many cigarettes.
What a great band. This is their follow up single to "echo beach". This deserved to be a hit as well....the muffins were too good to be classed as one hit wonders Am releasing this song again with "echo beach" and "women working around the world" and "hide and seek". Gavin wood will be calling this as a chartbuster very shortly.
Day 6951. 993 weeks. Raw honey and all of my urine til 2.00pm then dried and fresh figs and sprouts and sultana grapes then more urine then fresh fruit and vegetables and other foods at 8.00pm. No change.
Great band. Missed their window!
i dont think they did , infact id say it was the record industry what missed it . The band would have been reliant on their Record company back in those days .
This song is good too.
A Classic!!!
An absolutely great song. There were so many band members in Martha and the Muffins, I always used to wonder 'How did they make any money ..... ?'.
Maybe if they had had more than 1 song that enough people liked...
@@David_Span No, they had several. Martha and the Muffins did an entire album which was absolutely great. Then, they just seem to disappear.
@@JHatLpool One hit wonders
@@JHatLpool There almost isn't a Canadian band this _isn't_ the story of, especially in the '80s. For whatever reason, marketing execs thought that they needed to promote Canadian artists only in Canada. Harm themselves by limiting the advertising.
Gowan, Chalk Circle, these guys, the Northern Pikes all could likely have made an impact internationally had they gotten support. Martha & the Muffins kinda fizzled out & the lead singer & one member continued as M+M for a short while.
Some of the band were involved with other projects so weren't reliant on this band for income. There was quite a lot of changearound of members so some people weren't in the band for long. Their first album (including Echo Beach) and one of the others were recorded in the UK as there was quite a lot of UK record industry interest in them.
Martha and her cheekbones
There dancepark was fabulous ,not a bad track on it, 1983.
Great band - the admin department of new wave!
Surprize I never heard of them back in the day.
I'm not sure which country you're in but only Echo Beach was a big hit in the UK. Saigon didn't go far up the UK charts. I'm not sure how it fared in other countries.
@@johnr6168 Echo Beach was a Number 1 in Australia too. In the UK, it was later covered by Toyah and was a hit there again.
Still got this on 7” with a double groove gimmick 😂
Ha ha me too, great record
Bob one and two devolute ,Martha one and two pull apocalypse together
one of their albums is produced by daniel lanois
His sister Jocelyn was in the band, I believe it was their 3rd album he produced
@@nikblundell4658 she replaced one of the marthas
i love that album he produced
Danseparc, fantastic album. "walking into walls" my favourite song on that.
Yes it was dancpark.
And also This is the ice age, fabulous album
interesting that they were were allowed to keep the word "bastard" in the lyrics
It is interesting, especially on a children's show, but it's probably because they were using it in the traditional sense, not the more modern insult sense of the word.
Wonder if show checked lyrics before broadcast.😅
@@ajs41 Yes. It was a UK programme and the word 'bastard' wouldn't have been considered a problem as long as it was used for the original meaning.
I think "drinking absinthe till dawn" is even closer to the knuckle.
Poor old Cheggers
they're still going sort of
Sadly, Martha Johnson has suffered with Parkinsons for a long time. Her symptoms are less severe than with many though, so she can still sing at least despite being slowed down a lot.
The day before of that presentation Ian Curtis comit suicide... time pass by, great song.
3:17 Lol Cheggars got that one wrong
Day after Ian Curtis died
Brilliant album, but not the best video - the song is fantastic though.
Was Blonde Martha part of The Associates?
Yes she was.
Really? Never would have thought it.