9 - Episode 9 - Lee Curtis and the All Stars

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9 - Episode 9 - Lee Curtis and the All Stars

Part 9 – Lee Curtis and the All Stars, Tuesday 13 September 1988 and repeated Wednesday Like Kingsize Taylor, Lee Curtis is bitter. I don’t think he can appreciate why he missed out on hit records and world acclaim. There are, I think, several reasons for this but mainly, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time: he was too late for Elvis and too early for Tom Jones. He was a good entertainer with a fine voice but was far too overwrought for the Merseybeat scene and not taken seriously. He was managed by his brother, Joe Flannery, which didn’t help but surely they could have seen what was going wrong and corrected it. Also, Lee Curtis found success at the Star-Club and like Kingsize Taylor, he was in Hamburg when the hits were coming thick and fast in 1963. Again, Joe should have realised he would be better off in the UK. I also feel that for all his vocal skills he sometimes doesn’t get the meaning of a song. Take ‘It’s Only Make Believe’ which had been recorded at a recent Star-Club reunion. He sings “My hearts, a wedding ring” three times but what does “My hearts” mean: he has only got one heart. Because he never had his dream job, he never really settled and everytime I met him he was doing something else. On this recording, I said he was running a health club in Runcorn. The saddest was when he ran a boarding-house and in the evening, he would play records, including his own, and say, “A drink for anyone who can guess who this is.” Unreleased Merseybeat. ‘It’s No Good For Me’. On CD with OTB 150, Part 1

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