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Description: Vocalist , Composer, USA
Known For: Known for – “Pretty Little Angel Eyes” – 1961
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Rock , Easy listening
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 28th October 1939
Location Born: Yuma, Arizona, United States of America
Died: 8th January 2015 in Yuma, Arizona
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Curtis Lee
Curtis Lee (October 28, 1939 – January 8, 2015) was an American singer of the early 1960s, who twice over was one of the beneficiaries of 1961 productions by Phil Spector. These were “Pretty Little Angel Eyes” (U.S. #7) and “Under the Moon of Love” (U.S. #46).
Had one major success in Australia with “Pretty Little Angel Eyes” in
the early sixties.
Lee began his recording career in 1959, and the following year was signed by Dunes Records after being invited to cut a demo if he came to New York.
By the time he made it to New York in late 1960, he had started writing songs in partnership with a friend, Tommy Boyce, who later became one-half of the Boyce and Hart songwriting-producing-singing duo.
He formed his own successful homebuilding company in Yuma in 1988. Lee is now retired and his children run the company.
In the UK, “Pretty Little Angel Eyes” was a minor hit record, peaking at No. 47 in 1961. “Pretty Little Angel Eyes” has been covered by Zombina and the Skeletones and Showaddywaddy.
Without Spector’s influence, Lee’s hits dried up. He went into the construction industry with his father in 1969. He died from cancer on January 8, 2015 in Yuma, Arizona, aged 75.
Singles
Year Single Chart Positions
1961 “Pledge Of Love” 110 Dunes
“Pretty Little Angel Eyes” 7
“Under The Moon Of Love” 46
1962 “Just Another Fool” 110
1966 “Is She In Your Town” – Mira
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