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MAC & KATIE KISSOON

“CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP”

(Harold Stott)

ABC 11306

No. 20   October 2, 1971

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Jerry “Mac” Kissoon and his younger sister Kathleen were born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Kissoon

fam­ily moved to England in the late ’50s.  Mac did some solo singing and eventually joined a couple of West

Indian youths, Lance Ring and Pauline Sibbles, in the Marionettes.  After Katie joined the group, a number

of singles produced by Britain’s ’50s pop star Marty Wilde were issued in Europe by Pye.  In 1965, while

still a member of the group, Katie, recording as Peanuts, cov­ered the Bonnie & The Treasures hit-free

classic “Home of the Brave.”   That same year, the siblings also recorded a few girl-group sides with the

Rag Dolls.  None of these charted in England or the States.

Years later, freed of all solo and group alignments, Mac and Katie finally scored in the U.S. with their bub­

blegum number, “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep”­–reportedly a well-veiled anti-war tune. While years of

follow-ups charted on the continent, the Kissoons returned to oblivion in the States. “Sugar Candy Kiss­es,”

“Don’t Do It Baby,” and other cute pop-soul num­bers became big U.K. sellers in the mid-’70s.

Katie is has continued on as a pop performer.  She has toured and recorded with Van Morrison and Roger

Waters, and has made 45s for the Jive label.