Barbados (Typically Tropical song) singles "Rocket Now" and "The Ghost Song" failed to chart, leaving "Typically Tropical" as one-hit wonders. In 1999 a reworked version of the song, renamed "We're Going to Ibiza", also reached the UK Number 1 spot for The Vengaboys. Barbados (Typically Tropical song) "Barbados" was a UK Number 1 single released in May 1975 by Typically Tropical. "Barbados" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 37 in late June 1975, and five weeks later was at Number 1 for a week. In total, "Barbados" spent eleven weeks on the chart. The track also reached Number 1 on the Irish Singles
The Shadows the album "String of Hits" on EMI which topped the album charts, the success of this mooted EMI to a follow-up album, akin to a 'String of Hits-volume 2', with 13 old tracks (including a Marvin solo track) and one unreleased track from the 'String of Hits' sessions plus selected tracks from albums released in 1967, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1975 and 1977 of cover versions of hit singles; this was eventually released as ""Another String of Hot Hits"" in 1980. After 20 successful years together the Shadows and EMI parted company and the group signed a 10-year contract to Polydor