“But we did sing madrigals songs like ‘Mother, I Will Have A Husband’.”Īn early, female band called k-tel & the patty stackers “was mostly about tea and cake” They went as far as naming themselves K-Tel & The Patty Stackers but Shanley admitted it was mostly about tea and cake. She began rehearsing with Callie Blood and members of her sister Jenny’s former band, Wide Mouthed Frogs. When the money ran out, she dropped out and found work as a hairdresser. With the money she made, Shanley undertook a university science degree. They toured the country with a comedy revue written by Wilson. She got a job at the Bank of New Zealand and she and Wilson, 10 years her senior, started dating. When he wrote back and the correspondence continued, Shanley moved to the capital in 1979. Having seen Wellington actor and playwright Michael Wilson on TV, Shanley wrote him a fan letter. I just could not believe how joyous it was to sing with a proper choir and learn those parts and to sing classical music.” I thought, ‘Oh, okay, I’m the token country bumpkin.’ But it was amazing. “They kept talking about they had people all the way from Mangakino. “I think they sort of wanted to choose someone from a regional area,” she said. By way of an audition, her teachers recorded her singing and sent in the tape.
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Oldest sister Bronte bought Jenny her first guitar and all of the brothers and sisters had a crack at it.Īfter the family moved to Mangakino, Shanley was selected to be part of the National Youth Choir led by University of Auckland music lecturer Professor Peter Godfrey. Her husband had worked at Trident Studios and she had met David Bowie and The Beatles.
I got quite good at that.”Īn older sister, Maxine, returned from three years in London with lots of new music. “In order to stand out you learned to pick a harmony that no one else was singing. And the family would sing together, especially on car trips. While doing dishes the children would try to catch each other out by singing the first three notes of a song and guessing its title. The home was filled with all manner of music. Her mother loved classical music and opera her father western swing and big bands And he was the guy who would jump up on stage and perform with the band.” “He used to sit at the table and pretend to be playing piano. “I think he was a frustrated musician,” Shanley recalled. Her mum loved classical music and opera while her dad leaned towards Western swing and big band music. The seventh of nine children, Shanley Del Morris was born in Hamilton on 9 November 1962. She recorded three albums for the label, including the 1998 ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Music Awards Best Country Album My Own Sweet Time, and has toured Australia and made several trips to Nashville where she performed on the Grand Ole Opry with US country institutions Loretta Lynn and Skeeter Davis. “He liked my name and told her to tell me that I had a record deal,” Shanley said. Less than a year later, Jenny had played the songs to the head of an Australian label and he offered Shanley a seven-album deal. When her big sister, former Crocodiles singer and Australian recording star Jenny Morris, invited her to sing backup on her 1991 tour, Shanley slipped the demo cassette into her luggage as an afterthought. It was just like someone rubbed Aladdin’s lamp and I had a demo!” “It was all free, no money was exchanged. “I was so kind of green about the whole thing I was just like a deer in the headlights,” she told AudioCulture.
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