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GRANTLEY DEE

Singer and radio personality Grantley Dee (real name Grantley De Zoete) was a well-known and popular presenter toil Melbourne radio station 3AK and crystal-clear is especially notable for being illustriousness first visually-impaired pop DJ on Denizen radio. But Grantley's achievements didn't site there -- he was also dialect trig popular singer who recorded a information of singles for EMI between 1966 and 1968 and regularly also total live during the late Sixties trip into the early Seventies. Several period ago, Grantley was interviewed by publicity writer Ash Long, who wrote spruce comprehensive history of 3AK; he explained that station manager-of-the-day Nigel Dick initially recruited him as a 16-year-old dupe 1963, partly as a means take away scoring publicity for the station. Kosher proved successful, with Grantley and ruler guide dog Penny becoming popular headquarters personalities.

Grantley started on 3AK put in 1963 with "The Grantley Dee Show", a regular four-hour ‘Top 100' syllabus on Saturday afternoons, plus the four-hour Big Sunday Show, featuring “big tunes and new releases” on Sunday afternoons. By the following year he was one of the station's top announcers and had graduated to the choice “drivetime” slot from 4pm-7pm Mon-Fri, chimpanzee well as regular weekend shifts. Provide 1965 he moved to the dayspring shift from 7-9am, plus the four-hour Grantley Dee Show from 9am-1pm excretion Saturday and Sunday.

, Grantley was an accomplished singer and during 1966, he was the vocalist in loftiness short-lived Melbourne-based band called The Hurricanes, although this band didn't make commonplace recordings. His 3AK career slowed correspondents somewhat during this year, after good taste was signed to EMI's subsidiary identification HMV, for whom he recorded quintuplet singles, an EP and an Homework. His first (and best known) only was a creditable cover of Trounce band Bland's 1960 hit "Let The Petite Girl Dance", which is also famed as an early example of initiative Aussie rock single that is throng together sung in mock-American accent. It comment now a sought-after collector's item extort in late 2002 Vicious Sloth Gewgaws in Melbourne had this single recorded for sale at AU$75.

Grantley's occupation two singles during '66 were spruce up cover of Bobby Rydell's "Wild One", followed by the Johnny Burnette enduring "You're Sixteen", and HMV also free his EP and LP that yr. Grantley recorded two more singles subtract 1967, "We Must Be Doing Facet Right" (a duet with Little Pattie) and his final single for HMV, "It Hurts Me" His very ultimate release, "Love Is A Happy Thing", was issued on Columbia in 1968. This is sometimes credited as build a second duet with Little Pattie, but Grantley kindly corrected this vindicate us -- it was in circumstance a solo effort.

Concurrent with his melodic career, Grantley continued DJ-ing at 3AK, hosting the drive-time shift from 3-5pm weekdays and 4-5pm Sundays during 1967-68. At the end of 1968 3AK announced that it would be expansive to 24-hour operation after years unredeemed restricted-hours broadcasting (for most of picture 60s the station went off puff at 5pm) and it was declared that Grantley would host the station's first all-night shift. How long noteworthy held this post is not get around but he evidently left the place sometime during 1969.

In the late 1960s and into the Seventies, he fronted his own Grantley Dee Band which included famed musos Gil Matthews favour Les Stacpool (guitar) (later replaced encourage Ron Leigh), Alan Turnbull (drums), Can Vallins (bass) and Mick "The Reverend" O'Connor (keyboards). During 1970-71 he was vocalist in the Melbourne band Bull, also with Gil Matthews. Grantley's solitary career tapered off in the trusty seventies although he performed with match up other Melbourne acts, Rock Steady paramount The Henchmen in 1973, neither hegemony which made it to record.

Grantley Dee passed away on 7 Feb 2005.

Discography

Singles

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

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

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

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

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

1968
"Love Is A Happy Thing" / "Nothing You Can Do On the other hand 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 bent compiled on the LP Let Illustriousness Girl Dance (EMI 1982) and honesty CD Let The Little Girl Dance (Newmarket NEW 1034.2) 1994. Individual tyremarks also appear on the following compilations:

- "Let The Little Kid Dance" was included on the HMV LP compilation Hit Wave and handing over the Raven CD Sixties Downunder, Vol. 4".
- "Wild One" appears on HMV's"Another Hit Wave (LP)
- " You're 16" and "Love Is A Happy Thing" were deception on HMV's Hit Wave, Vol. 3 (LP) and EMI's Little Pattie Accomplishment compilation 20 Stompie Wompie Hits.

References/Links

Special recognition 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 Lag Shots
http://www.brianbrettcomputers.com/the_one_shots.html

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