Barbados (Typically Tropical song) 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 Chart, Number 1 on the South African Singles Chart, and 20 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report). The track was later released on an album in 1975 by Gull Records. The album was named "Barbados Sky". Follow-up
One Minute Wonders (piano) in Country Life Magazine, wrote: Particularly remarkable were Matthew King's "Sonatas" which managed to quote from all of Beethoven's sonatas in chronological order, and Colin Matthews's "60 Second Waltz", which, after half-remembering Chopin, faded modernistically, then resurrected itself. "One Minute Wonders" is published, and a CD by the same name has been released (with Clive Williamson as soloist) by Cadenza Music. One Minute Wonders (piano) One Minute Wonders is the name given to a series of piano pieces by leading British composers, commissioned by the pianist Clive Williamson in association with the University of Surrey. The challenge, laid down to