"Pretty Little Angel Eyes"

   Curtis Lee is an American singer of the
early 1960s and, twice over, 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)
    Lee began his recording career in
1959, by the time he made it to New
York in late 1960, he had started writing
songs in partnership with a friend,
Tommy Boyce,
For his third record, Dunes  Records
agreed to cut a Lee-Boyce original
called "Pretty Little Angel Eyes."    
 Handsome and photogenic, Lee had a
vocal approach close to the teen idols
of the period. Spector's genius with the
productions, besides his deft handling
of the instrumental support, was to
provide fills with strong doo-wop riffing
from an R&B vocal group, The Halos, to
produce two classic rock and roll tunes.