Tuesday, 23 December 2014

The second album Fearless by Tim Curry; famous for his role as Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, was mainly written by him and produced a minor hit with I Do The Rock. Outside of that song, there isn't an awful lot to this album. It's OK, but, I feel kind of boring and a bit lame. Sorry Tim!
A lot of clubs were playing this in 1979 though:





His third and final album Simplicity, released in 1981, was a combination of original songs and covers. I feel this is a little better that his previous album, perhaps because of the covers; like his version of the John Sebastian song Summer in the City, Marvin Gaye's Dancing in the Streets, the much covered I Put a Spell on You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) or my pick the Zombies She's Not There:




My final album under "C" is by King Curtis (Curtis Ousley), R&B, soul, funk and jazz sax player. This is a compilation album released in 1972 the year after he was killed at the age of 37.  This in on the Pickwick Label, a budget label usually of poor quality and often has pressings of "sound alike" artists.  Normally I stay away from this label, but for $.50 or $1.00 like this was, I'm not too worried.  Here is one of his own compositions Bill Bailey:


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