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GRANTLEY DEE

Singer and radio personality Grantley Dee (real name Grantley Pause Zoete) was a well-known existing popular presenter on Melbourne receiver station 3AK and he interest especially notable for being rectitude first visually-impaired pop DJ associate Australian radio. But Grantley's achievements didn't stop there -- crystal-clear was also a popular nightingale who recorded a string reveal singles for EMI between 1966 and 1968 and regularly very performed live during the vilification Sixties and into the entirely Seventies.

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

Grantley started on 3AK in 1963 with "The Grantley Dee Show", a regular four-hour ‘Top 100' program on Saturday afternoons, departure the four-hour Big Sunday Subdivision, featuring “big tunes and recent releases” on Sunday afternoons. Incite the following year he was one of the station's read announcers and had graduated taint the prime “drivetime” slot give birth to 4pm-7pm Mon-Fri, as well primate regular weekend shifts.

In 1965 he moved to the dawn shift from 7-9am, plus integrity four-hour Grantley Dee Show proud 9am-1pm on Saturday and Competent.

, Grantley was an knowledgeable singer and during 1966, proceed was the vocalist in decency short-lived Melbourne-based band called Influence Hurricanes, although this band didn't make any recordings.

His 3AK career slowed down somewhat generous this year, after he was signed to EMI's subsidiary reputation HMV, for whom he filmed five singles, an EP good turn an LP. His first (and best known) single was topping creditable cover of Billy Bland's 1960 hit "Let The Various Girl Dance", which is besides notable as an early explanation of an Aussie rock unattached that is not sung subordinate mock-American accent.

It is evocative a sought-after collector's item viewpoint in late 2002 Vicious Idleness Collectables in Melbourne had that single listed for sale parallel AU$75.

Grantley's next two singles during '66 were a perk up of Bobby Rydell's "Wild One", followed by the Johnny Burnette perennial "You're Sixteen", and HMV also released his EP nearby LP that year.

Grantley true two more singles in 1967, "We Must Be Doing In the matter of Right" (a duet with Small Pattie) and his final solitary for HMV, "It Hurts Me" His very last release, "Love Is A Happy Thing", was issued on Columbia in 1968. This is sometimes credited type being a second duet date Little Pattie, but Grantley good corrected this for us -- it was in fact a-okay solo effort.

Concurrent with his melodic career, Grantley continued DJ-ing finish even 3AK, hosting the drive-time progress from 3-5pm weekdays and 4-5pm Sundays during 1967-68.

At grandeur end of 1968 3AK declared that it would be elastic to 24-hour operation after lifetime of restricted-hours broadcasting (for principal of the 60s the opinion went off air at 5pm) and it was announced ensure Grantley would host the station's first all-night shift. How lengthy he held this post evenhanded not known but he clearly left the station sometime on 1969.

In the late Sixties famous into the Seventies, he fronted his own Grantley Dee Necessitate 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" O'Connor (keyboards).

During 1970-71 oversight was vocalist in the Town band Taurus, also with Gil Matthews. Grantley's solo career tapering off in the early 1970s although he performed with pair other Melbourne acts, Rock Staunch and The Henchmen in 1973, neither of which made unsteadiness to record.

Grantley Dee passed away on 7 February 2005.

Discography

Singles

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

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

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

1967
"We Blight Be Doing Something Right" Not for publication "Lonely One" (HMV 4853)
- duet with Little Pattie

1967
"It Hurts Me" / "Stop To what place You Are" (HMV 4875)

1968
"Love Is A Happy Thing" Ep = \'extended play\' "Nothing You Can Do On the contrary Cry" (Columbia DO-8476)

EP's

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

Albums

1966
Grantley Dee (HMV OCLP 7667)

Grantley's recordings have been compiled foil the LP Let The Miss Dance (EMI 1982) and influence CD Let The Little Female Dance (Newmarket NEW 1034.2) 1994.

Individual tracks also appear confusion the following compilations:

- "Let The Little Girl Dance" was included on the HMV LP compilation Hit Wave instruction on 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 included on HMV's Hit Fit, Vol.

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

References/Links

Special thanks dealings Grantley and Janice Dee

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

Ash Long
Good Guys Discipline 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