Currant Kraze

Currant Kraze were one of those seemingly innumerable studio groups assembled in England during the late 1960s around the twin orbits of songwriter/producer/singers Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway and composer Tony Macaulay. The other participants on their one and only single for Deram, "Lady Pearl" b/w "Breaking the Heart of a Good Man" (both authored by Cook and Greenaway), included the equally ubiquitous Tony Burrows on lead vocals, plus Johnny Goodison and Sue & Sunny. Although they never existed outside of the recording sessions that yielded the single -- and might just as easily have used the name Edison Lighthouse or the Brotherhood of Man, to name just two "groups" that the same personnel recorded as -- one does wonder at the name attached here, and whether Cook, Greenaway, and company weren't pulling someone's leg. ~ Bruce Eder