Born in New Zealand in 1949, Sheryl Black started her career as a jazz singer. She moved to Australia and toured Vietnam in 1967 as an 18-year-old with the entertainment troupe. She was recruited as the first lead singer for harmony pop band Aesops Fables. Aesop's Fables started out as a cover band. This statement has a pejorative quality these days, but the reality was that for working bands throughout the Sixties (this was the height of the R&R boom) it was essential to know a very wide range of material, from jazz standards through to the latest R&B, psychedelic, hard rock and bubblegum hits. Sheryl left the band before they recorded any material. Sheryl Black moved to front the Southern Contemporary Rock Assembly (SCRA) a big band similar to Blood Sweat and Tears. That band didn't last long and Sheryl went solo and recorded for the Reprise label.
Black not Blake
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