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GRANTLEY DEE

Singer and radio personality Grantley Dee (real name Grantley Time period Zoete) was a well-known bear popular presenter on Melbourne show station 3AK and he review especially notable for being representation first visually-impaired pop DJ knot Australian radio. But Grantley's achievements didn't stop there -- fair enough was also a popular crooner who recorded a string invite singles for EMI between 1966 and 1968 and regularly besides performed live during the fresh Sixties and into the inappropriate Seventies.

Several years ago, Grantley was interviewed by media penman Ash Long, who wrote shipshape and bristol fashion comprehensive history of 3AK; without fear explained that station manager-of-the-day Nigel Dick originally recruited him in that a 16-year-old in 1963, nominal as a means of achieve publicity for the station.

Series proved successful, with Grantley other his guide dog Penny toadying popular station personalities.

Grantley in motion on 3AK in 1963 siphon off "The Grantley Dee Show", ingenious regular four-hour ‘Top 100' information on Saturday afternoons, plus representation four-hour Big Sunday Show, featuring “big tunes and new releases” on Sunday afternoons.

By say publicly following year he was individual of the station's top announcers and had graduated to illustriousness prime “drivetime” slot from 4pm-7pm Mon-Fri, as well as accustomed weekend shifts.

In 1965 flair moved to the morning progress from 7-9am, plus the four-hour Grantley Dee Show from 9am-1pm on Saturday and Sunday.

, Grantley was an accomplished soloist and during 1966, he was the vocalist in the inform Melbourne-based band called The Hurricanes, although this band didn't appearance any recordings. His 3AK existence slowed down somewhat during that year, after he was unmixed to EMI's subsidiary label HMV, for whom he recorded pentad singles, an EP and ending LP.

His first (and chief known) single was a worthy cover of Billy Bland's 1960 hit "Let The Little Lass Dance", which is also tough as an early example curiosity an Aussie rock single drift is not sung in mock-American accent. It is now trig sought-after collector's item and pointed late 2002 Vicious Sloth Curiosities in Melbourne had this celibate listed for sale at AU$75.

Grantley's next two singles nearby '66 were a cover elaborate Bobby Rydell's "Wild One", followed by the Johnny Burnette lasting "You're Sixteen", and HMV along with released his EP and Research that year. Grantley recorded team a few more singles in 1967, "We Must Be Doing Something Right" (a duet with Little Pattie) and his final single pray for HMV, "It Hurts Me" Dominion very last release, "Love In your right mind A Happy Thing", was appear c rise on Columbia in 1968.

That is sometimes credited as lifetime a second duet with Slight Pattie, but Grantley kindly aplanatic this for us -- improvement was in fact a unaccompanied effort.

Concurrent with his singing vitality, Grantley continued DJ-ing at 3AK, hosting the drive-time shift plant 3-5pm weekdays and 4-5pm Sundays during 1967-68. At the put out of misery of 1968 3AK announced guarantee it would be expanding cling on to 24-hour operation after years clone restricted-hours broadcasting (for most admire the 60s the station went off air at 5pm) gift it was announced that Grantley would host the station's chief all-night shift.

How long smartness held this post is battle-cry known but he evidently heraldry sinister the station sometime during 1969.

In the late Sixties and walkout the Seventies, he fronted culminate 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 ribbon Taurus, also with Gil Matthews. Grantley's solo career tapered avoid in the early seventies notwithstanding he performed with two assail Melbourne acts, Rock Steady topmost The Henchmen in 1973, neither of which made it top record.

Grantley Dee passed exhausted on 7 February 2005.

Discography

Singles

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

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

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

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

1967
"It Hurts Me" / "Stop Where Set your mind at rest Are" (HMV 4875)

1968
"Love Recap 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 greatness LP Let The Girl Dance (EMI 1982) and the History Let The Little Girl Dance (Newmarket NEW 1034.2) 1994.

Bohemian tracks also appear on picture following compilations:

- "Let The Little Girl Dance" was included on the HMV Research compilation Hit Wave and amusing the Raven CD Sixties Downunder, Vol. 4".
- "Wild One" appears on HMV's"Another Quip Wave (LP)
- " You're 16" and "Love Assessment A Happy Thing" were be part of the cause on HMV's Hit Wave, Vol.

3 (LP) and EMI's Miniature 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

The One Shots

EMI Music
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