| I'm sure there's a place in the
entertainment world for a precocious teen with a fringe but it sure
isn't travelling around the country in a bandwagon in the early
hours, unchaperoned, with seven males in their twenties. Ireland has
seen its share of gimmick bands, e.g: Tarzan and the Monkeys, The
Clowns, The Black & White Dixie Minstrels, The Hollywood Stars, even
The Indians and The Cowboys but Harvest was a major GIMMICK band who
actually expected to be taken seriously. Connie Lynch poured money into his questionable idea to build a showband around a 14-year old named Mary and added 'Lou' to her name to create a cutesy, Shirley Temple style 'star'. With expensive stage-outfits and slick promotional material and a kid singing about teddy-bears and her Mama and Daddy, no questions were asked. Harvest was nothing but a sad story of exploitation in pursuit of money and is probably best forgotten. |