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.
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.
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)
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.
