Acts That Should Have Been More Successful

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:30 am

Love Affair Jerry were basically the vocals of Steve Ellis, they had 5 hits in UK between January 68 and July 69

In chronological order

Everlasting Love - number 1
Rainbow Valley - number 5
A Day Without Love - number 6
One Road - number 16
Bringing On Back he Good Times - number 9

They made a decent album as well or probably to be more accurate the session men and Steve Ellis did.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:40 am

Good clip Sheena, enjoyed it, but that was Steve Ellis with 4 other guys miming to the hit.

This was not the line up that "made" the hits.

In fact this was another of those "It's my Group" scenario's whereby Ellis did not own the name Love Affair another ex member did and a court case ensued and Ellis had to go out as Steve Ellis's Love Affair.

In the states this was a Top 20 hit for Robert Knight in October 67

Rachel Sweet had a minor hit with it in 81.

Now where have I heard that before!.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:46 am

I'm wondering...recently I'd heard that a number of "bubblegum" tunes from the late '60's, early '70's, each by different "groups" were actually all sung by the same singer.

Could that singer have been Mr. Ellis?

I think "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" might have been one of those hits.

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:09 am

Jerry: AMG states that Edison Lighthouse ("Love grows...") singer was named Tony Burrows; what he looked like (like this? or probably like this?) is another question. Still i think it's not the same voice as on "Everlasting love".
Roy: sorry, but most of the other clips of this song on youtube are for the version performed by Sandra.

No live version as performed by the Love Affair, unfortunately...

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:19 am

Tony burrows sang on a number of hits in 60's/70's

"There was "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" with the Edison Lighthouse, "My Baby Loves Lovin'" with White Plains, "Beach Baby" with First Class, "United We Stand" with the Brotherhood of Man, "Let's Go To San Francisco" by the Flowerpot Men and "Gimme Dat Ding" with the Pipkins. Burrows played in the group the Kestrels, who toured with the Beatles twice. He also was part of the Ivy League, one of the biggest bands in England in the mid-sixties. Tony also sang on the famous Coca-Cola "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" commercial, as well as doing backing vocals on tunes like Elton John's "Border Song," "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer."

above taken from pop entertainmment .com

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed May 09, 2007 8:02 am

Thanks, Roy, that's the guy!

Hope he got a chunk of the royalties!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:16 am

First class, Roy!!

Speaking of First Class, was Spencer James in their original lineup?

rob_mac · Post by **rob_mac** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:26 am

Roy, Thanks for posting the Move tracks. Great to here them again. I had the original singles many years ago, but have not heard either track in a long time.

Thanks from Rob

rob_mac · Post by **rob_mac** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:35 am

An interesting fact about the Move's single 'flowers in the rain' from 67:-

The song generated controversy when the band were sued by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Wilson, for libel after Secunda produced a cartoon postcard to promote the single of Wilson in bed with his secretary, Marcia Williams, with whom he was allegedly having an affair. The group lost the court case and had to pay all costs, with all royalties earned by the song being given to charities of Wilson's choice, a ruling which remained in force even after Wilson's death in 1995.

Taken from Wikipedia

Can't be many Bands that can claim to have been successfully sued by a prime minister!!! The subsequent publicity probably did them no harm.
From Rob

einar · Post by **einar** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:39 pm

Move got the reputation of being a "Tory" band, as Troggs were "Labour".

einar · Post by **einar** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:50 pm

I recently bought a dvd covering the "Steve Marriott Astoria Memorial Concert" (April 2001). Steve Ellis is guesting as lead singer on several songs. And does it good! He looks exactly as he did in the Love Affair heydays. On some numbers, he shares the stage with authorities like Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher. In my opinion, Ellis steals the show! Even better are some numbers he performs with a group named as The Mods, from London, featuring a very good singer too. A more contemporary group, I think. I would have liked to know a little more about t h i s The Mods, but haven't found anything yet.
Love Affair was never one of my favourite acts, btw.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:58 am

Thanks Einar. Time to explore, Love Affair, the group that is.