Today’s episode is a bottled lightning two for one. Singer Freddy Curci had Two chart dominating tracks though his bands vanished into thin air shortly after. One with the band Sheriff called When I’m With You that went to #1 in 1989 and one with Alias called More Than Words Can Say that hit #2 the very next year in 1990. So two massive hits with the same singer but two completely different bands.. He also set a Guinness World Record when he held the last note out for nearly 20 seconds. #1 hit and the second was a runner-up the very next year. It’s a lot to unravel, but it’s really cool. We’re bringing you the rare story of two bands, one singer, and two-1 hit wonders, coming up... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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So It’s high time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day. Here we honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown disappeared after that. A lot of people call them ‘one hit wonders’, but we celebrate them instead as lightening in a bottle.
On previous episodes we have covered She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals, and What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy) by Information Society. Today we are giving you a bottled lightning double dose with two songs that ruled the charts, a #1 and a #2 hit. The catch is that even though they are from two different bands, they are both sung by the same lead singer…
Freddy Curci the other freddy if you will... The first song is ‘When I’m With You’ by Sheriff and the second is ‘More Than Words Can Say’ by Alias. The five-member Canadian band Sheriff formed in 1979. Freddy was the last to join the group and it was actually his first rock band. From an early age, the Ontario native spent more time listening to and singing classical opera music than rock and roll.
By the time he was a teenager, Freddy was singing in Italian wedding bands in and around Toronto. And that is how he got connected with Sheriff. One of the banquet hall owners where Freddy gigged got him an audition. Sheriff was his cousin’s band.
Sheriff was already comprised of Steve DeMarchi [pronounced Markee] on guitar, Wolf Hassel on bass, Arnold Lanni on keyboard, and Rob Elliot on drums.
The audition went well, despite the fact that Curci had no rock and roll experience or apparently much knowledge of the genre. Said Freddy, “When I first joined Sheriff... I didn’t know a lot of rock stuff... And I went and auditioned and they said do you know Van Halen, and I said Van who?”
But working in Curci’s favor was his phenomenal voice. Rock novice or not, Freddy could really sing. It was a talent he would strengthen by swimming underwater and holding his breath for as long as possible. The AOR band was impressed with what he could do and told him he was in. They did give him some homework though... the classic rock stylings of Boston and Styx.
