Singer Had a HIT SONG on the CHARTS with 4 DIFFERENT Bands at the EXACT SAME TIME!-Professor of Rock

Poll: What is your pick for the WEIRDEST song of the Rock Era?

Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes is one of my favorite songs from my childhood. It makes me happy to know I'm not the only one who remembers this great song. ❤

Another underappeciated guy like Tony Burrows is the incredible Paul Carrack, who scored hits with Ace ("How Long"), Squeeze ("Tempted"), Mike + The Mechanics ("Silent Running," "The Living Years"), as well as solo ("Don't Shed a Tear"). Plus, he co-wrote the late Eagles hit "Love Will Keep Us Alive," sung by Timothy B. Schmit.

Tony Burrows deserves to be in every pop music hall of fame!

Talented session musicians like Tony Burrows are the unsung heroes of the music industry.

Back in 1998, I was working in local radio and had the good fortune to interview Tony Burrows. I had an idea who he was, but fortunately I did know all of the one hit wonders he'd sung on. He was utterly charming and led me through my questions like a pro, making me sound really quite good. Thanks Tony!

I can actually remember seeing Tony in the two bands on Top of the Pops. He was everywhere at one time, his voice instantly recognisable, and I loved him. He's never had the recognition he's deserved. Thank you for this one. Nice to know he's not forgotten.

One of the things I like the most about you, Adam, is the way you share the music from an era before you were even born. I am 67, born in 1956. I remember a lot of these songs, and while they weren't my "cup of tea" I gave them all a listen. I was always a rock guy, mostly hard rock when it became a thing. This was very interesting and informative, I frankly had never known that very talented singers actual name !!

Almost 70 . My Dad worked as a sales rep for Capitol Records from 1952-1969 after serving our country in the Navy during WW11 . Grew up listening to music at a very young age . Miss you Daddy .

As a kid I was a fan of all these songs growing up. I also like bubblegum rock as a kid and still do. Later I learned that Tony was the voice of many of these songs. A very talented man. Good job Professor as usual.

I'm a 70-year-old so i remember all 5 songs . AM radio as a youth.

My son and I have been following the Tony Burrows saga for many years. Glad you posted a story about him so everybody else could hear about him. He is an icon in the music industry.

A delightful story that could only be delivered by The Professor of Rock! Thank you!

7:27 White Plains with 'My Baby Loves Lovin'' 9:24 Edison Lighthouse sings 'Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes' 13:05 Brotherhood of Man with 'United We Stand' 13:15 The Pipkins sing 'Gimme Dat Ding' 17:03 The First Class with 'Beach Baby'

Thanks for shining the limelight on Tony Burrows and for detangling the convoluted and complicated pedigrees and connections between so many short-lived bands in the 1970s! Tony's contributions as well as his special fate deserve more attention and appreciation. I stumbled across his story recently and was surprised he was the lead singer of so many famous yet very different songs like "Rosemary", "Gimme dat ding!" and "Beach Baby". However, I wouldn't consider "Brotherhood Of Man" a one hit wonder. A few years after their UK-Top-10-hit "United we stand", they won the prestiguous European Song Contest in 1976 with "Save Your Kisses For Me" (eventually climbing up to No 1 in the UK), although with a different line-up without Tony Burrows. Following that win, they had two more No-1-hits in the UK, "Angelo" and "Figaro", but again without any contribution by Tony.

Tony is a great singer. I liked all his songs. Love grows where my rosemary goes and his group the white plains. One hit wonder songs were some of the best songs of the 1960's, 1970's, and the 1980's.

For 10 years I had just two words of Love grows Where My Rosemary Goes on my mind, "Like Me." Of course it was the way Tony sang them, but I couldn't remember any other words. When I was a young Air Force Airman stationed in Germany from 1981-1985, I was a Security Police and I had so many other SPs who tried to help me figure out the rest of the lyrics, but we couldn't. One Sunday I was on Post as a Gate Guard and right after Casey Kasem's America's Top 10, went off (America's Top 40 came much later), I began scanning the dial and of course the stations were German, and although I did speak some German, (Arbor ist los. (Work is over) I didn't understand as fast as they spoke. As I flipped the dial I heard that guitar intro, tat needed no translation. Oh My God, I was blown away! That was my song! As I sang along with the words, I came to the part that says, "Because love grows where my Rosemary goes, and nobody knows like me!" Woo Hoo! I have it on my iTunes now and I listen to it all the time. But it was Tony Burrows' voice that made that song swing for me. I didn't know his name until just now, but I won't forget it.

Wow, Beach Baby... a song I'd completely forgotten but as soon as you said it, it was playing in my head. That's the power of music!

I'm a fan of pop and "classic rock" from when it was all just rock n roll. I'd never heard of Tony before, but I know all those four songs off by heart and still hear them on my radio. I'd never made the connection before now!

I had no idea that Tony Burrows sang in four bands, in four songs, at the exact same time. He must have been in high demand in the 70's.