<Ul> <Li> Jeff Calvert </Li> <Li> Max West </Li> </Ul> <P> Typically Tropical were a British band, best known for their number one hit record "Barbados". </P> <P> Typically Tropical had a 1975 number one hit single "Barbados". Jeff Calvert and Max West recorded together for another six years, although not always under the name Typically Tropical . </P> <P> After hearing the demo version of "Barbados", recorded in the spring of 1974, David Howell of Gull Records wanted to hear more, but instead Jeff and Max asked for £ 1500 to finish both "Barbados" and another track they'd written, "The Ghost Song", and to record "Barbados"' B - side, "Sandy". Having agreed, Gull then signed them up for three singles . "Barbados" was finished at the end of 1974, but Gull decided to wait until May 1975 to release it . In August that year it reached number one, and the duo, having performed it on Top Of The Pops, decided to write another nine songs for the album Barbados Sky, which was released at the same time as the follow - up single "Rocket Now" (backed with "Hole In The Sky"), and sold around 8000 copies . </P>

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