:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-8563925-1464880408-3314.jpeg.jpg)
Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970- January 3, 1970 #4 “Jennifer Tomkins”- Street People”
- Single: “Jennifer Tomkins”- Street People
- Record Company: Musicor
- Genre: Soft Rock
- Written by-Gerald Florio, Rupert Holmes, Paul Vance.
- Time: 1:53
- B-side:”All Night Long”
- Album- Bubblegum Music A-Z
- Grade: C+
- Peaked: #36 -15 weeks on the Billboard Chart.
Street People was a studio group featuring Rupert Holmes who would go on a decade later to have a #1 hit with “Escape {The Pina Colada Song} in 1979- and a couple other Top 40 hits. Holmes was born in England but raised in Manhattan. Street People ad 2 Hot 100 hits in 1970 and that was it- this was their biggest hit.
Wow! How to bring back some childhood memories in less than 2 minutes.
As I listened this song came back to me.
I didn’t remember this one either.. I wasn’t listening to much radio then but sometimes being in the car I’d hear stuff maybe I did but it wasn’t memorable.