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Chadwick William 'Chad' Morgan (born 11 February 1933) is an Australian comedic singer/guitarist renowned for his vaudeville style of comic country and western songs, his prominent teeth, and goofy stage persona. In reference to his first recording he is known as The Sheik of Scrubby Creek.

He was born in Wondai, Queensland and raised by his grandparents. Chad was discovered through Australia's Amateur Hour and started recording with Regal Zonophone (a subsidiary of EMI) in 1952. His songs are peppered with Australian slang (One CD compilation is entitled Sheilas, Drongos, Dills and Geezers).

He toured extensively, including the Slim Dusty Show, the All Star Western Show and his own Chad Morgan Show. He has been prolific in his recorded output, and his live performances. He was inducted into the Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown in January 1987, and awarded an OAM in 2004.

Chad Morgan has appeared in two films Newsfront and Dimboola.

When Gordon Parsons came up with the pub with no beer, Chad's the bloke who wrote the words down and even one verse of his own. He was dubbed the clown prince of comedy by Slim Dusty. He has recorded a duet with John Williamson A Country Balladeer. Has had platinum and gold album sales, and is one of Australia's most popular and loved country music artist. Morgan has never won the Golden Guitar award.

Chad Morgan has played all over Australia in all of manner of places from tents to trucks to clubs and pubs ,festivals, the Sydney Opera House even a circus you name it he's played there He's toured with everyone from Slim Dusty,Normie Rowe, through to mental as anything.

There was rumoured to be a film being made about his life starring US actor Steve Buscemi. There currently is no commercially available DVD or video of one of Chad Morgan's shows. Other artists that hove done impersonations of Chad Morgan in their shows include, Col Elliott, John McSweeney, John Williamson as well as countless others and many cover artists.

Tex Morton once described Chad as the only original country music artist in Australia. EMI has refused to release his older albums onto CD because of a misguided thinking that there is lack of interest.

False rumours of his death began to surface after a announcement on radio station 4GY. The radio station later apologized for the rumour and Chad continues to tour doing live performances.¹

Chad Morgan is one of the last pioneers of Australian Country Music, and still very active, touring Australia bringing his comical songs to fans of three-generations. The man who has been making people laugh for more than five decades should be crowned King of Australian Country Music Comedy.

He is a master of audience control and remains one of the biggest draw cards in the history of Australian Country Music. He has seen many changes in the industry and had lived through good and bad times. He is just as popular today as he was fifty years ago, and while the glittering of a Golden Guitar still eludes him – Morgan’s trophy of success are his loyal fans. At the age 75 the lovable ‘Sheik’ is still ‘pick of the crop

Trivia

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Quote from a Chad Morgan bio: While touring Australia Morgan made sure he had fun. If he wasn't racing cars off the highway, he was playing a modern game of William Tell with a .303. Morgan explains "Trevor Day & myself were travelling outback Queensland, we stopped beside a billabong for lunch. Well I had me .303, doing some roo shooting as we went. Trevor yells out "Hey Morgan, you reckon you're good, see if you can take this can off me head at 50 yards." I said "No, better not." Trevor said "You haven't got the guts, uh?" "Well, it was 50 yards off the shoulder, I took that bloody can off his head."

Personal life

Chad Morgan has two sons and one daughter, Chad Morgan Junior, Allan Morgan, and Daughter Janelle Morgan. Allan has a daughter Caitlin Morgan and is currently living in NSW. Janelle has two daughters, and is living in Queensland. Chad has a son, Kyall Burns.

Discography

• The Sheik - Released 6/12/1995
• Chad Morgan - The Singles Collection - Regal Zonophone And Beyond - Releashed Aug 2002 - EMI Music Australia
• It's Only the Depth that Varies - Due for release early 2009

Footnotes

External links

• Source: bio on Chad Morgan's induction into Music Roll of Honour by the Australian Country Music Foundation
• Australian Music Online

Fan sites:

• http://www.chadmorgan.250x.com/
• http://www.chad-morgan.5u.com/
• http://floreenaforbes.com/Country-Music-Legends.php

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• This page was last modified on 16 December 2008, at 01:23.

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