However, despite issuing several self-penned catchy followup singles – “Mention My Name”, “Paint the Smile On”, “The Beginning of the End” – Jigsaw struggled to establish a strong enough identity and remain best known in the UK for their radio-friendly signature song.A:One Way Street/ B:Then I Found You (MGM 1410 1968)Ī:Mr. The operation lived up to its name with the success of “Sky High”, which grew from a few plays on Radio Luxembourg to national and international success. Undeterred, manager Chas Peate, Scott and Dyer used some of their publishing income to fund their own label called Splash.
Should have provided the ideal launch pad, but the BASF company saw it differently, and dropped the group after two singles and one album entitled I’ve Seen the Film, I’ve Read the Book. Their success as the writers of “Who Do You Think You Are” In 1974, Scott and Dyer took the advice of a New York music publisher and began fashioning poppier, more upbeat material with mainstream potential. They failed to make the charts, however, despite their strong reputation as a live band. It was a worldwide smash, most notably topping the Japanese charts on two separate occasions after being adopted as the intro music for Mil Mascaras, a Mexican wrestler with a big Japanese following, and featuring in Toyota commercials. Written in three days by keyboardplayer and vocalist Clive Scott and drummer Des Dyer, who sang lead on the single, “Sky High” became the debut hit for Jigsaw, a Warwickshire group formed in 1966. Fittingly enough, it was the main theme song from The Man from Hong Kong, an action picture directed by the British journeyman Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring the martial arts star Jimmy Wang Yu, as well as the Australian actor George Lazenby, six years after his lone outing as Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. With its dramatic introduction and big orchestral flourishes, “Sky High”, the 1975 Top Ten hit by Jigsaw, sounded like a long-lost theme to a James Bond film.
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