Grantley dee biography of william shakespeare

GRANTLEY DEE

Singer and radio personality Grantley Dee (real name Grantley De Zoete) was a well-known and popular presenter on Melbourne radio station 3AK and he is especially notable for being the first visually-impaired pop DJ on Australian radio. But Grantley's achievements didn't stop there -- he was also a popular singer who recorded a string of singles for EMI between and and regularly also performed live during the late Sixties and into the early Seventies.

Several years ago, Grantley was interviewed by media writer Ash Long, who wrote a comprehensive history of 3AK; he explained that station manager-of-the-day Nigel Dick originally recruited him as a year-old in , partly as a means of scoring publicity for the station.

Grantley dee biography of william shakespeare More like this. Further property investments in Stratford followed, including the purchase of acres of land in For this reason, some theorists have suggested that one or several authors wishing to conceal their true identity used the person of William Shakespeare as a front. Also, genres of tragedy , comedy , and tragi-comedy owe a great deal to Shakespeare for popularity and universal recognition.

It proved successful, with Grantley and his guide dog Penny becoming popular station personalities.

Grantley started on 3AK in with "The Grantley Dee Show", a regular four-hour ‘Top ' program 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 prime “drivetime” slot from 4pm-7pm Mon-Fri, as well as regular weekend shifts. In he moved to the morning shift from am, plus the four-hour Grantley Dee Show from 9am-1pm on Saturday and Sunday.

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, Grantley was an accomplished singer and during , he was the vocalist in the short-lived Melbourne-based band called The Hurricanes, although this band didn't make any recordings. His 3AK career slowed down somewhat during this year, after he was signed to EMI's subsidiary label HMV, for whom he recorded five singles, an EP and an LP.

His first (and best known) single was a creditable cover of Billy Bland's hit "Let The Little Girl Dance", which is also notable as an early example of an Aussie rock single that is not sung in mock-American accent. It is now a sought-after collector's item and in late Vicious Sloth Collectables in Melbourne had this single listed for sale at AU$

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

Grantley recorded two more singles in , "We Must Be Doing Something Right" (a duet with Little Pattie) and his final single for HMV, "It Hurts Me" His very last release, "Love Is A Happy Thing", was issued on Columbia in This is sometimes credited as being a second duet with Little Pattie, but Grantley kindly corrected this for us -- it was in fact a solo effort.

Concurrent with his singing career, Grantley continued DJ-ing at 3AK, hosting the drive-time shift from pm weekdays and pm Sundays during At the end of 3AK announced that it would be expanding to hour operation after years of restricted-hours broadcasting (for most of the 60s the station went off air at 5pm) and it was announced that Grantley would host the station's first all-night shift.

Grantley dee biography of william shakespeare in 400 words William was the third of eight Shakespeare children, of whom three died in childhood. He became popular due to his traditional writing style in the early part of his career. Go behind the scenes. When he was eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway , who was twenty-six.

How long he held this post is not known but he evidently left the station sometime during

In the late Sixties and into the Seventies, he fronted his 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" O'Connor (keyboards).

During he was vocalist in the Melbourne band Taurus, also with Gil Matthews. Grantley's solo career tapered off in the early seventies although he performed with two other Melbourne acts, Rock Steady and The Henchmen in , neither of which made it to record.

Grantley Dee passed away on 7 February

Discography

Singles

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

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

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

"We Must Be Doing Something Right" / "Lonely One" (HMV )
- duet with Little Pattie

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

"Love Is A Happy Thing" / "Nothing You Can Do But Cry" (Columbia DO)

EP's

Let The Girl Dance" (HMV 7EGO )

Albums

Grantley Dee (HMV OCLP )

Grantley's recordings have been compiled on the LP Let The Girl Dance (EMI ) and the CD Let The Little Girl Dance (Newmarket NEW ) Individual tracks also appear on the following compilations:

- "Let The Little Girl Dance" was included on the HMV LP compilation Hit Wave and 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 Wave, Vol. 3 (LP) and EMI's Little Pattie CD compilation 20 Stompie Wompie Hits.

References/Links

Special thanks to Grantley and Janice Dee

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

Ash Long
Good Guys And Godbotherers

The One Shots

EMI Music
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