Chicory Tip

Chicory Tip are best known for their worldwide number 1 single from 1972, "Son Of My Father," but they also had two other British Top 20 hits - "What's Your Name" and "Good Grief Christina."
Although they charted just three times their recording career spanned five years from 1970 from the first single, "Monday After Sunday," to the final 45, one of their best ever tracks, "Survivor."
Despite recording 12 singles in the UK they only ever made one album, "Son Of My Father," which came out in 1972, but depending on what version you bought back then, you had either "
Excuse Me Baby" (on earlier versions) or "What's Your Name" as the final cut on Side One.
Let's go back to the beginning though. As infants Rick Foster and Barry Mayger were chums - they went to the same school and as they grew up, in the early 1960s, they decided to start a band called
The Sonics, named after the guitars they both had which were Burns Tri-sonic guitars.
Barry and Rick were joined by Geoff Baker on Drums and Derek Nye (Rhythm Guitar) to form the original Sonics. Two years later Rick left with Geoff to form The Blue Beats.
In came Robin Huckstep on Bass and Jock Law on Drums. The Sonics fizzled out in 1965 but after a two year gap they re-formed.
That band now included lead singer Peter Hewson and drummer Mick Russell along with Barry Mayger and Rick Foster and in 1967 the change of name to Chicory Tip gave them a change of fortune.
"We wanted to get away from names which started with the word 'The' as there were so many around like 'The' Shadows and 'The' Beatles," explained Rick in a recent interview.
"We were in an army barrack just outside Maidstone and on with another band called The Mannish Boys featuring David Bowie," he recalls.
"We came off stage and Barry saw a brand of coffee (probably Camp Coffee) which had Chicory in it and featured that fact on the label. He said 'What about Chicory Tip for a name?' and I agreed, so we went with it."
Thanks to Stuart Cameron from HotDisk.co.uk for this biography excerpt.

Monday After Sunday	My Girl Sunday
Excuse Me Baby	I Love Onions
Son Of My Father	What's Your Name
The Future Is Past	Good Grief Christina
Cigarettes, Women And Wine	I.O.U.
Take Your Time Caroline	Survivor

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↓ U.K. Monday After Sunday (promo & release) 19th June 1970 ↓


↓ U.K. My Girl Sunday 2nd April 1971 ↓



↓ Singapore My Girl Sunday 1971 ↓


↓ U.K. Excuse Me Baby (promo & release) 25th June 1971 ↓



↓ U.K. I Love Onions (promo & release) 5th November 1971 ↓



↓ Argentina Son of My Father 1972 ↓
	*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*


↓ Australia Son of My Father 1972 ↓

↓ Brazil Son of My Father (EP promo) 1972 ↓


↓ Canada Son of My Father 1972 ↓

↓ France Son of My Father 1972 ↓




↓ Germany Son of My Father (promo & release sleeve) 1972 ↓



↓ Greece Son of My Father (in generic Greek CBS sleeve) 1972 ↓


↓ Holland Son of My Father 1972 ↓



↓ India Son of My Father 1972 ↓

↓ Republic of Ireland Son of My Father 1972 ↓



↓ Israel Son of My Father 1972 ↓


↓ Italy Son of My Father (jukebox edition) 1973 ↓

↓ Italy Son of My Father (normal edition) 1973 ↓



↓ Japan (Chicory) Son of My Father 1972 ↓





↓ Kenya Son of My Father 1972 ↓


↓ Mexico (Chicory Tip) Son of My Father (EP promo) 1972 ↓


↓ Mexico (Chicory) Son of My Father 1972 ↓

↓ New Zealand Son of My Father 1972 ↓



↓ Portugal Son of My Father (sleeve and label #1) 1972 ↓


↓ Portugal Son of My Father (sleeve and label #2) 1972 ↓


↓ Portuguese or Angolan sleeve Son of My Father (missing the CBS logo on the front) 1972 ↓

↓ Singapore Son of My Father 1972 ↓


↓ South Africa Son of My Father 1972 ↓


↓ Southern Rhodesia Son of My Father 1972 ↓

↓ Spain Son of My Father 1972 ↓


↓ Spain (a session group going by the name of Pop Of The Pops) Son of My Father 1972 ↓


↓ Sweden Son of My Father (2 variants of sleeve and disk pushouts) 1972 ↓




↓ U.K. Son of My Father (promo & release) 14th January 1972 ↓








↓ U.K. Son of My Father (single-sided flexi-disk) 7th October 1972 ↓

↓ U.S.A. Son of My Father (acetate label, test pressing, promo, and release) 9th February 1972 ↓






↓ Uruguay Son of My Father (promo & release) 1972 ↓



↓ Yugoslavia Son of My Father 14th September 1972 ↓


↓ U.K. What's Your Name (single-sided acetate, promo & release) 28th April 1972 ↓
	SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET





↓ Republic of Ireland What's Your Name 28th April 1972 ↓

↓ Angola What's Your Name 1973 ↓


↓ Canada What's Your Name 2nd June 1972 ↓

↓ France What's Your Name (Test pressing & release) 17th May 1972 ↓



↓ Germany What's Your Name (promo sleeve & release) 6th May 1972 ↓



↓ Holland What's Your Name 1972 ↓


↓ India What's Your Name 1972 ↓

↓ Israel What's Your Name 1972 ↓

↓ Japan Marianne / What's Your Name (promo & release) 1972 ↓




↓ Malaysia What's Your Name (E.P.) 1972 ↓
	*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*
	*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*
↓ Portugal What's Your Name 1973 ↓


↓ Singapore What's Your Name (E.P.) 1972 ↓


↓ South Africa What's Your Name 1972 ↓

↓ Spain What's Your Name 1972 ↓


↓ Sweden What's Your Name 1972 ↓


↓ Thailand What's Your Name (E.P. #1) 1972 ↓


↓ Thailand What's Your Name (E.P. #2) 1972 ↓


↓ U.S.A. What's Your Name (acetate & promo) 2nd June 1972 ↓



↓ U.K. The Future Is Past (promo & release) 22nd September 1972 ↓


↓ Argentina The Future Is Past (promo & release) 1973 ↓
	*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*
*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*
↓ Germany The Future Is Past (promo & release sleeve) 1973 ↓



↓ Holland The Future Is Past 1972 ↓


↓ Thailand The Future Is Past (E.P. #1) 1972 ↓


↓ Thailand The Future Is Past (E.P. #2) 1972 ↓


↓ Thailand The Future Is Past (E.P. #3) 1972 ↓


↓ Thailand The Future Is Past (E.P. #4) 1972 ↓
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*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*	*SORRY NO IMAGE JUST YET*
↓ Yugoslavia The Future Is Past (general release sleeve & Record Club sleeve) 1973 ↓



↓ U.K. Good Grief Christina (single-sided acetate, promo & release) 2nd March 1973 ↓





↓ Argentina Good Grief Christina (promo & release) 1973 ↓


↓ Argentina Good Grief Christina (Various artists EP) 1973 ↓


↓ France Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓


↓ Germany Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓



↓ Holland Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓



↓ Israel Good Grief Christina March 1973 ↓


↓ Japan Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓


↓ Malaysia Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓
	SORRY NO IMAGE AS YET
	SORRY NO IMAGE AS YET
↓ New Zealand Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓

↓ Portugal Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓


↓ Singapore Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓

↓ South Africa Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓

↓ Spain Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓


↓ Sweden Good Grief Christina March 1973 ↓


↓ Thailand Good Grief Christina (various artists EP #1) 1973 ↓


↓ Thailand Good Grief Christina (various artists EP #2) 1973 ↓


↓ Thailand Good Grief Christina (various artists EP #3) 1973 ↓


↓ U.S.A. Good Grief Christina (original and slightly later promos and release) 24th April 1973 ↓




↓ Uruguay Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓

↓ Yugoslavia Good Grief Christina 1973 ↓


↓ U.S.A. Cigarettes, Women & Wine (promo) 22nd October 1973 ↓

↓ U.K. Cigarettes, Women & Wine (promo & release) 20th July 1973 ↓



↓ France Cigarettes, Women & Wine After Spetember 1973 ↓


↓ Germany Cigarettes, Women & Wine (promo & error & corrected cover) 1973 ↓




↓ Holland Cigarettes, Women & Wine (Two versions of cover) September 1973 ↓



↓ Portugal Cigarettes, Women & Wine 1973 ↓


↓ Spain Cigarettes, Women & Wine 1973 ↓


↓ Sweden Cigarettes, Women & Wine 1973 ↓


↓ U.K. I.O.U. (promo) 26th October 1973 ↓



↓ Germany I.O.U. (promo) 1973 ↓


↓ Germany I.O.U. (release) 1973 ↓


↓ Portugal I.O.U. 1973 ↓


↓ Spain I.O.U. 1973 ↓


↓ U.K. Take Your Time Caroline (promo & release) 12th July 1974 ↓


↓ Germany Take Your Time Caroline (promo & release sleeve) 1974 ↓



↓ Portugal Take Your Time Caroline 1974 ↓


↓ U.K. Survivor 7th March 1975 ↓

....................GLAM ROCK....................

..............Chicory Tip..............

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