Edison Lighthouse was a bunch of British session musicians who were fronted by a most excellent singer by the name of Tony Burrows, who had a pervious chart success as one of The Flowerpot Men with Let’s Go to San Francisco. (Nick Simper and Jon Lord, later of Deep Purple were also in the group and there is an in-joke reference to the Flowerpot Men in This is Spinal Tap.). Edison Lighthouse had one worldwide hit single, Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes, which sold millions of copies throughout 1970. Burrows was basically the voice and persona for songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason.
 

 
At one point the trio had four nearly simultaneous entrants to the pop record charts, all of which are posted here. If you are, ahem, of a certain, cough, age, you will probably know at least two of these songs, if not all four (guilty). These guys all had especially impressive batting averages when it came to creating hit records, together and separately.

Amusingly, when I was looking at the various YouTube videos of Tony Burrows-fronted groups, some of the Edison Lighthouse music videos had him in them, but others have another guy lip-syncing to his vocals. The other “band members” seem to be hired actors, too.
 

 
Here he is again, with the Brotherhood of Man performing United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Of course this was a second worldwide smash and I remind you, released within weeks of the Edison Lighthouse hit. Lest you think that Top of the Pops presenter Jimmy Saville was wearing the same groovy Nehru jacket each week on TOTP, this clip was culled from the very same show, broadcast January 29, 1970. In fact, Burrows was actually onstage a third time in that same show and was unofficially black-listed from the program for years, lest the audience think the pop charts were rigged in favor of this one singer! (The ban notwithstanding, he returned to TOTP but a few weeks later as one of The Pipkins.)
 

 
Next up was My Baby Love Lovin’ by the White Plains, yet a third huge hit.
 

 
And finally in June of 1970 came Gimme Dat Ding under the name The Pipkins. Gimme Dat Ding was used as background music on The Benny Hill Show and was in Ally McBeal several times when Peter MacNicol’s character would do his “Angry Dance” to it. Quite an amazing string of hits, I think you’ll agree! Tony Burrows resurfaced in 1976 as the singer of First Class and scored another popular hit with Beach Baby. Burrows is still performing today.