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Robert Q. Lee cut his teeth touring the midwest with Robert Lee & The Exquisites, a Steeltown mainstay. Soon, Robert outgrew Steeltown and changed the band’s name to Lost Weekend, issuing records on their own imprint throughout the 1970s.
As the decade closed, Robert led his band into Ed Cody’s Odyssey Sound Studio in Chicago where he cut an album of futuristic soul jazz under the pseudonym General Lee & His Space Army Band. The quarter-inch master tape passed hands through various band members who listened and made copies, but no such copies have survived. Robert’s younger brother Willie “Junei” Lee, suspects the tape was lost in the rubble of Lost Weekend background singer Sam Walker’s home, which was abandoned and demolished decades ago. Fortunately, a chunk of recordings survived by way of 45 rpm singles pressed in 1979 and ’80. The first disc from the renamed group was the uptempo and funky “Pleasure,” b/w with a Roy Ayers-inspired deep groove “We Did It Baby” on the flip. Both tracks prominently feature Robert’s Fender Rhodes and synthesizers. An extended version of “We Did It Baby” was released over two sides of a 7", and another extended jam, “Magic,” followed soon after.
As the decade closed, Robert led his band into Ed Cody’s Odyssey Sound Studio in Chicago where he cut an album of futuristic soul jazz under the pseudonym General Lee & His Space Army Band. The quarter-inch master tape passed hands through various band members who listened and made copies, but no such copies have survived. Robert’s younger brother Willie “Junei” Lee, suspects the tape was lost in the rubble of Lost Weekend background singer Sam Walker’s home, which was abandoned and demolished decades ago. Fortunately, a chunk of recordings survived by way of 45 rpm singles pressed in 1979 and ’80. The first disc from the renamed group was the uptempo and funky “Pleasure,” b/w with a Roy Ayers-inspired deep groove “We Did It Baby” on the flip. Both tracks prominently feature Robert’s Fender Rhodes and synthesizers. An extended version of “We Did It Baby” was released over two sides of a 7", and another extended jam, “Magic,” followed soon after.
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