The singer, Curtis Anderson, has died.He will, probably, be best remembered for his 1980 Brown Bag Records single ‘The Hardest Part’ (a song later covered by the artist Donald Albert in the early Nineties).Curtis was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer last year, undergoing chemotherapy during September 2014.

Echo everything Girth says and for good measure there was a remake in about 1987 recorded by Donald Albert. Many (myself included) prefer Albert's version which is much less expensive!

A record that went from being totally unknown, and in a very short space of time to being the most wanted record on the Modern Soul scene in the late 80s / early 90s. Initially known in the early days from handful of copies that were distributed around some of the Modern DJs at the time, especially centered around the Upnorth / Southport weekenders. The plan was to get it played and wanted, and then there was supposed to be 100s of copies coming into the country at a later date. For numerous reasons, this never happened - and it became one of the biggest records in the UK modern scene, only played by a handful of DJs. For a good many years only those first copies were known, and a couple or three changed hands for many 100s of £. Copies have since surfaced on Ebay, one particular batch - all mint / unplayed and selling for £100s.....A classic piece of 80s Modern Soul history and remains very rare & decidely expensive.....