Four Jacks and a Jill

Somehow, today's sunshine made me scroll down to Four Jacks and a Jill on the iPod today.
Led by Glenys Lynne and Clive Harding, Four Jacks and a Jill were arguably South Africa's top band in the 1960s. I've got their 1968 masterpiece 45 "Master Jack" on the iPod.
It reached No. 8 in the United States and topped the charts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It was home in South Africa, however, where the band made their mark. They were the first local group to earn a gold record for their 1967 song "Timothy."
Of course, being Apartheid-era South Africa, the Four Jacks and a Jill story is not all good news. The band were barred from playing a Cape Town gig by the government. Although the government allowed American R&B artist Percy Sledge to perform to whites, it disallowed Four Jacks and a Jill to perform before black audiences.