Steve Aldo —  “You’re Absolutely Right”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — February 4, 2025

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,484) Steve Aldo —  “You’re Absolutely Right”

“Merseybeat’s own black R&B/soul guy [with] a cracking voice” (Simsy, https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/news-archives/rip-steve-aldo-r3572/) turned this Nicholas Ashford, Valerie Simpson and Josephine Armstead number into a “Hot UK Northern Dancer”. (Vintage Vinyl Via Valves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9JtroL-JY) It is absolutely a mod classic.

As to Steve Aldo, Chocolate Soup for Diabetics tells us:

One of Liverpool’s foremost black singers of ther 1960s, Edward Alban Jean-Pierre Bedford had voice reminiscent of Steve Marriott’s. Having been a ladies’ hairdresser and a sailor, he sang with numerous local bands — Howie Casey & The Seniors, Kingsize Taylor & The Dominos (in Germany), The Challengers, the Nocturnes, The Krew, and The Griff Parry Five — as well as fronting his own outfit, The Challengers. He never found the right recipe for recording success . . . . By 1966 he was singing with a latter-day incarnation of The Fairies, then joined another Merseyside act named The Fix (alongside former Searcher Chris Curtis).

liner notes to the CD comp Chocolate Soup for Diabetics: 82 UK Psych Classics

Here are the Apollas (’65 A-side):

Here are the Apollas “live”:

Here is Tina Britt (’65 A-side):

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