Mary Ann (Black Lace song)
After seeing a promotional video, the band had made for agents in a bid to get more work around the country, songwriter Peter Morris approached Black Lace with a view to recording his song "Mary Ann".EMI had booked Berwick Street Studios in Soho for a twelve-hour day with engineer Gwyn Mathias, to record songs by six artists.A day was booked at Berwick Street a couple of weeks later to record the B-side ("Drivin") written by Alan Barton and Colin Routh.Smokie's publishers, RAK Music, claimed that "Mary Ann" was a rip-off of their song "Oh Carol" and threatened to take legal action.The song was performed 17th on the night, following Norway's Anita Skorgan with "Oliver" and preceding Austria's Christina Simon with "Heute in Jerusalem".