Coming to attention with their hit single Bunch Of Thyme in 1979, Foster & Allen
became huge favourites of family audiences with their easy listening charm and
melodic folksie ballads. Both Irish singers and accordion players, they learned
their craft individually on the Irish showband circuit and got together in 1975
to play the Irish clubs in England. They got their first Irish Number1 single in
1979 with A Sprig Of Thyme, although it was another three years before it was
released in the UK, eventually breaking into the British Top 20. Further
sentimental hits followed with Mag...