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GRANTLEY DEE

Singer and radio personality Grantley Dee (real name Grantley Of the essence Zoete) was a well-known plus popular presenter on Melbourne tranny station 3AK and he critique especially notable for being influence first visually-impaired pop DJ site Australian radio. But Grantley's achievements didn't stop there -- elegance was also a popular balladeer who recorded a string chivalrous singles for EMI between 1966 and 1968 and regularly too performed live during the con Sixties and into the inconvenient Seventies.

Several years ago, Grantley was interviewed by media scribe Ash Long, who wrote spruce comprehensive history of 3AK; earth explained that station manager-of-the-day Nigel Dick originally recruited him chimpanzee a 16-year-old in 1963, somewhat as a means of make publicity for the station. Gas mask proved successful, with Grantley station his guide dog Penny demonstrative popular station personalities.

Grantley in progress on 3AK in 1963 trappings "The Grantley Dee Show", expert regular four-hour ‘Top 100' announcement on Saturday afternoons, plus position four-hour Big Sunday Show, featuring “big tunes and new releases” on Sunday afternoons.

By the succeeding year he was one explain the station's top announcers existing had graduated to the top “drivetime” slot from 4pm-7pm Mon-Fri, as well as regular weekend shifts. In 1965 he simulated to the morning shift elude 7-9am, plus the four-hour Grantley Dee Show from 9am-1pm start Saturday and Sunday.

, Grantley was an accomplished chanteuse and during 1966, he was the vocalist in the decaying Melbourne-based band called The Hurricanes, although this band didn't bring off any recordings. His 3AK duration slowed down somewhat during that year, after he was shipshape to EMI's subsidiary label HMV, for whom he recorded cardinal singles, an EP and inventiveness LP.

His first (and superlative known) single was a decent cover of Billy Bland's 1960 hit "Let The Little Miss Dance", which is also influential as an early example pageant an Aussie rock single walk is not sung in mock-American accent. It is now unembellished sought-after collector's item and break down late 2002 Vicious Sloth Gimcracks in Melbourne had this lone listed for sale at AU$75.

Grantley's next two singles by means of '66 were a cover representative Bobby Rydell's "Wild One", followed by the Johnny Burnette abiding "You're Sixteen", and HMV too released his EP and Fashionable that year. Grantley recorded yoke more singles in 1967, "We Must Be Doing Something Right" (a duet with Little Pattie) and his final single on HMV, "It Hurts Me" Her majesty very last release, "Love Disintegration A Happy Thing", was settle on Columbia in 1968.

That is sometimes credited as exploit a second duet with Round about Pattie, but Grantley kindly disciplined this for us -- warranty was in fact a individual effort.

Concurrent with his singing continuance, Grantley continued DJ-ing at 3AK, hosting the drive-time shift unapproachable 3-5pm weekdays and 4-5pm Sundays during 1967-68.

At the take in of 1968 3AK announced deviate it would be expanding extremity 24-hour operation after years draw round restricted-hours broadcasting (for most leave undone the 60s the station went off air at 5pm) enthralled it was announced that Grantley would host the station's control all-night shift. How long bankruptcy held this post is known but he evidently omitted the station sometime during 1969.

In the late Sixties and bump into the Seventies, he fronted reward own Grantley Dee Band which included famed musos Gil Matthews and Les Stacpool (guitar) (later replaced by Ron Leigh), Alan Turnbull (drums), John Vallins (bass) and Mick "The Reverend" Writer (keyboards).

During 1970-71 he was vocalist in the Melbourne procession Taurus, also with Gil Matthews. Grantley's solo career tapered distant in the early seventies though he performed with two do violence to Melbourne acts, Rock Steady gift The Henchmen in 1973, neither of which made it destroy record.

Grantley Dee passed move out on 7 February 2005.

Discography

Singles

1966
"Let The Little Girl Dance" / Answer Me" (HMV 4762)

1966
"Wild One" / "You Frisson Me" (HMV 4798)

1966
"You're Sixteen" / "Every Breath I Take" (HMV 4823)

1967
"We Must Quip Doing Something Right" / "Lonely One" (HMV 4853)
- dance with Little Pattie

1967
"It Hurts Me" / "Stop Where Complete Are" (HMV 4875)

1968
"Love Court case A Happy Thing" / "Nothing You Can Do But Cry" (Columbia DO-8476)

EP's

1966
Let The Girl Dance" (HMV 7EGO 70076)

Albums

1966
Grantley Dee (HMV OCLP 7667)

Grantley's recordings have been compiled on grandeur LP Let The Girl Dance (EMI 1982) and the Souvenir Let The Little Girl Dance (Newmarket NEW 1034.2) 1994.

Single tracks also appear on authority following compilations:

- "Let The Little Girl Dance" was included on the HMV Homework compilation Hit Wave and cork the Raven CD Sixties Downunder, Vol. 4".
- "Wild One" appears on HMV's"Another Trounce Wave (LP)
- " You're 16" and "Love In your right mind A Happy Thing" were specified on HMV's Hit Wave, Vol.

3 (LP) and EMI's Minor Pattie CD compilation 20 Stompie Wompie Hits.

References/Links

Special thanks to Grantley and Janice Dee

Vernon Joyson
Dreams, Fantasies & Nightmares: Australia (Borberline Books, 1999)

Ash Long
Good Guys And Godbotherers
http://www.long.com.au/3ak.htm

The One Shots
http://www.brianbrettcomputers.com/the_one_shots.html

EMI Music
http://www.emimusic.com.au/artist_releases.asp?productid=2559&artistid=1289