CHERYL GRAY [LATER KNOWN AS SAMANTHA SANG]
You Made Me What I Am
(Tony Hatch - Jackie Trent)
Australia 1967
#23 Sydney #11 Melbourne #18 Brisbane #9 Adelaide #59 Perth

Single on HMV label.

Melbourne singer Cheryl Gray changed her name to Samantha Sang at the end of the 60s.

Born in 1953, daughter of Melbourne singer Reg Gray, Cheryl Gray was in her early teens when Brand New Woman, her first charting single, was released. Brand New Woman (1966, #46 Melbourne) was an original song by Peter N. Pinne who, with Don Battye, has written a number of stage musicals, as well as the Sons And Daughters theme song.

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As Samantha Sang, Cheryl Gray had an international hit in 1978 with Emotion, written by Barry & Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb.

More details at Emotion by Samantha Sang.
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An early Samantha Sang single recorded in London in 1969 had comprised two other 'songs The Bee Gees gave away', The Love Of A Woman and Don't Let It Happen Again, both by Barry and Maurice Gibb. (Single on Parlophone, UK and Atco, USA.) More details at Joseph Brennan's Gibb Songs website.

Further reading: Super Seventies Rock Site! has a Samantha Sang biography and photo.
MARK WYNTER
You Made Me What I Am
(Tony Hatch - Jackie Trent)
UK 1966
Original version

Single on Pye label by early 60s teen idol, best known for his 1962 hits Venus In Blue Jeans and Go Away Little Girl.

Prolific songwriter, arranger, musical director and producer Tony Hatch wrote most of his songs with his wife, singer Jackie Trent. He was the musical brains behind Petula Clark's mid-60s career revival and was responsible for her run of hit records from Downtown (1964). Hatch and Trent also wrote the theme to the TV series Neighbours.

Tony Hatch also had a hand in the original versions of One In A Million by Bev Harrell and Heart by Lynne Randell. He produced The Montanas' version of Ciao Baby, a song better known in Australia through Lynne Randell's version.

Further reading: The Tony Hatch song lists at Magic Town.

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