Wha' happen'?

Got a minute for something interesting? Well, listen anyway ha ha, because this story has twisties and turns. 

My senior year in high school began with one particular song all over the radio, a silly little thing called "Little Arrows" by a guy called Leapy Lee. Listen and shake your head, but check back in ten minutes and maybe you'll see it was catchy enough to be on the radio day and night. So much so, when it faded in favor among music lovers, you sat back and waited for the inevitable follow-up hit record.  

But wait...there wasn't one.

Leapy was born Graham Pulleyblank, and I'm certain that's the most British name you'll hear all day, unless you encounter Sir Bainbridge Cholmondley in your travels. "Little Arrows" was a huge hit all around the world for a guy who, before getting into the show business, had found work as a Bingo caller and wheelbarrow boy. 

None of his attempts at a follow-up went anywhere here or in Britain, although we did play a song called "Every Road Leads Back To You" on country radio in 1975, inevitably accompanied by questions of "Where has Leapy been, huh?"

Here's where. He was arrested in 1970 following a bar brawl involving his friend Alan Lake (a British actor and the third husband of bosomy actress Diana Dors, who was born Diana Fluck, and who chose future "Family Feud" quizmaster Richard Dawson as a second husband.) Leapy claimed that Diana framed him in the matter, in which he was eventually found guilty of "unlawful wounding" (British Law!!!) and served three years, but his English reputation and career were over.

Once out of prison, Leapy moved abroad and was last reported living in Santa Ponsa, on the island of Mallorca off the southern coast of Spain. 

I am not kidding about any of this, especially Diana's birth name. Trivia is my life.