Sasha Caro

Caro Minas (aka Rick Minas / Sasha Caro) was born in Rangoon in 1940, but his family fled to England when Burma was invaded by the Japanese, remaining on these shores thereafter. A love of music quickly sucked him into both the business and creative side of the "industry", and he took some promising steps at commercial songwriting. Originally beginning his career under the name Rick Minas, he co-wrote the non-hits "Lease On Love" by the Graham Bond Organisation and "I Won't See You Tonight" by Hamilton and The Movement, besides setting up the cheap recording studio RayRik with his business partner Bruce Rae. He also had a deeply obscure solo folk 45 out on Polydor in 1965 entitled "Well I Want No Part Of It". 
Very few of their other songs managed to gain a release, though several appeared on an episode of "Dangerman" in the sixties as part of the episode "Not So Jolly Roger", which took place on a pirate radio station. All the "top sounds" the DJs spun throughout the episode were actually just recordings of Rick Minas's work, though none of these gained a commercial release after the episode aired. 
Somehow, Cat Stevens managed to discover Rick through his songwriting demos, and took him under his wing to attempt to launch him as a star in his own right. His name was changed to Sasha Caro. Sasha later on life gave up music and took up a career as an accountant not long after his two Decca records flopped.
==Links to Peel==
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Peel had a copy of his single, Grade 3 Section 2 / Little Maid's Song, originally released in 1967, in his record box, but according to available playlists on this site, never seemed to have played tracks from the single on his programmes.
==Shows Played==
*None, according to available tracklistings
==External Links==
*Left And To The Back Blog
*Discogs
Category:Artists