Grant Morgan - I Could Cry

Описание: The record label credits him as "Grant Morgan", but this was a pseudonym for Kashmiri singer Kuldip Rae Singh who, in the mid-50s, had been hotly tipped for superstardom.
In 1956, when a 21 years old medical student at UCLA, he sought to try his luck as a contestant on Groucho Marx's American TV quiz show 'You Bet Your Life'. He failed to provide correct answers to his questions, but scored a win when seizing the opportunity to perform before a national audience by singing "A Woman In Love" from 'Guys And Dolls'.
Incredibly, after that appearance, Singh was offered a recording contract with RCA, a booking for a forthcoming George Gobel Show, his story profiled in 'Life Magazine', and he received an estimated 8,000 letters from fans, some of which contained proposals of marriage!
Kuldip chose not to continue with his medical studies, but to accept the recording contract and devote his attention to a career in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately for Singh, his new-found success placed him under scrutiny by the Naturalization Service, who established that he was residing in the U.S. under a student visa, but no longer attending UCLA. He was given a month to leave the country or face deportation.
He did later return to the States on a visitor's visa, and was able to undertake some engagements on TV and in person, but the mega stardom that had been forecast did not materialise.
He resurfaced in Spain, mononymously billing himself as "Kuldip", with several singles and an album performed in Spanish — the latter including unlikely sounding Hispanic treatments of "Goldfinger", "The Ballad of the Green Berets", and an excellent Spanish treatment of a Hindi song “Chahe Koi Mujhe Junglee Kahen”, titled “El Salvaje".
In 1968, as Grant Morgan, Kuldip recorded two Les Reed songs for the Mercury label - "I Could Cry" and "When He Wants A Woman", which were released on the Marmaduke label in the States. Selected for the 'A' side was "I Could Cry", for which lyrics had been written by Barry Mason, and is one of my personal favourites of the entire Reed-Mason catalogue. When mentioning this to Les, he advised that the song had originally been written for Des O'Connor as an intended follow-up to his #1 smash hit "I Pretend". Kuldip/Grant's version is outstanding. His vocal certainly brings out the best in the song, and his final note will take your breath away!