Leapy Lee

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Little Arrows
  DE 5 10/15/1968 (16 weeks)
  CH 2 10/15/1968 (14 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 11/15/1968 (16 weeks)
  UK 2 08/24/1968 (21 weeks)
  US 16 October 12, 1968 (14 weeks)
good Morning
  UK 29 December 20, 1969 (7 weeks)

Leapy Lee (also known as Lee Graham) (born Graham Pulleyblank July 2, 1939 in Eastbourne , England ) is a British singer. He was best known in 1968 for the song Little Arrows .

biography

Little Arrows was the first big hit composed by the then unknown Albert Hammond . The text is from Mike Hazlewood . With the piece Lee reached number 26 in Germany's annual hit parade and number 5 in the German singles charts in 1968 . The title was even more successful in Great Britain , where the single came in at number 2. In the USA the single was listed at number 16. Leapy Lee received a gold record for Little Arrows .

Lee's follow-up single Good Morning reached a top 30 rating in the UK charts; after that his career was over. Today he lives in Mallorca .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Ehnert, Günter (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956-1980 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 123
  3. ^ Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 223
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 347
  5. ^ Murrells, Joseph: The Book of Golden Discs . 2nd edition, London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd., 1978, pp. 242f
  6. ^ Laufenberg, Frank / Hake, Ingrid: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 1: ABBA - Kay Kyser . Düsseldorf / Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1994, pp. 876f

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personal data
SURNAME Lee, Leapy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Eastbourne , England