We say:
Steve Allen (real name Alan Stephenson) was a member of the Wellington group the Lost Souls, where he handled lead guitar and vocals.
In 1968, he left the Lost Souls to work on a solo career. The Lost Souls recorded one single in 1969, “Take A Load And Lay Me Down”, and in 1970 the band then evolved into Tapestry, a popular club band.
As Stevie Allen, he recorded one single for HMV in 1969, “This Old Man”/”Just You Wait”, but it wasn’t until 1972 that his solo career took off, recording, as Steve Allen, a dozen singles for Viking through to 1976. Some were reasonable covers of overseas artists. He did quite a good version of David Bowie’s “Life On Mars” in 1972 and the Carpenters “Top Of The World” in 1973.
His most successful song was “Join Together” in 1973. This was the theme song for the 1974 Commonwealth Games held in Christchurch. The song reached number 2 on the national charts in August 1973. Two albums were also recorded for Viking, “That Go Well Feeling” in 1972 and “The Greatest Show On Earth” in 1973.
At the RATA Awards in 1973 Steve was awarded “Top Male Vocal Performance”. He was a regular member of the “Happen Inn” television series.
One final album was released on Ode in 1982 called “The Kids Collection Vol 1”.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Bruce Sergent for letting us use this material from his great discographical site New Zealand Music of the 60’s, 70’s and a bit of 80’s.
Do you know what happened to Steve Allen? Can’t seem to find any info after the 70s?
From his Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Allen_(singer)
His final single release was on the Mandrill label in 1980. The single “Out Of Control” was done in duet with Kim Hart. In 1982, he released an album of children’s songs on the Ode label. By the mid 1990s, he was in Napier running a book shop.[6] In 2011, working as a real estate agent and having been out of the music business for two decades, he was contacted by Mark Tudehope from Christchurch. Tudehope wanted to have the song recorded again for the current times. Allen was more than happy to do it, and the song was recorded at Auckland’s Montage Studio in June that year.[7]
He is still in Real Estate in Napier. He had a Twitter page that was active around 2014: https://twitter.com/stephensonalans?lang=en