In the summer of 1976, David Dundas secured a 13-week run on the British charts with "Jeans On," three of those weeks landing inside the Top Five. The single originated as a jingle Dundas wrote for a U.K. television advertisement for Brutus Jeans and was developed into a full song with Roger Greenaway. Air/Chrysalis released the track, which reached the American Top 20 in early 1977 and later appeared on the compilation Super Hits of the '70s, Vol. 19.
Dundas issued the follow-up "Another Funny Honeymoon" in 1977, placing it inside the British Top 40. Chrysalis put out two albums by the artist, though neither registered notable impact. He shifted focus to scoring, supplying music for How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Sometime Never, Dark City, Sleepers, and Freddie as F.R.O.7. Dundas and Rick Wentworth together composed the score for Withnail and I.
Beyond his partnerships with Greenaway and Wentworth, Dundas saw "Jeans On" covered by Andre Williams and sampled by Fatboy Slim. The son of the Marquess of Zetland, he was born in Oxford and first worked as an actor in film, television, and theater, including a 1968 role in Prudence and the Pill opposite David Niven.
