Eddie Daniels started singing 40 years ago. "I trained when I was younger, but then I thought I knew it all and stopped training."
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He was one of the original "10 pound Poms" and has since travelled the world performing. I am a child of the universe, and have taken my shows to the UK, Europe, New Zealand and the US."
Despite his uncanny resemblance to Roy Orbison and his three octave range, Daniels says "you don't ever get it [impersonation] perfect".
"If you love it as much as I do, it's not an effort, you do it because you love it."
The idea for his show started with an audience member. "I was performing one night years ago in a lounge, and a guy came up to me and said you look like Roy Orbison, and he put some dark glasses on me. I knew one of Roy's songs so I sang it and it went off. So we put together the Roy Orbison show at Rooty Hill RSL. It was the first tribute show in Australia. Here we are 35 years later so we must be doing something right."
When he first started there weren't any videos of their performances to watch. "It's all in the vowels, especially with Pitney. But if you don't have the range, and don't sing in the same key, you are not doing it right."
Daniels has seen audience members crying and after his shows people have told him his voice gave them goosebumps. "It's a great compliment."
There is a four or five piece band and back-up singer on stage with Daniels as he performs the big hits from these giants of the music scene.
Pitney had 16 Top 40 hits in the USA and 22 in the UK including: It Hurts to be in love,The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 24 Hours from Tulsa, I'm Gonna Be Strong, Princess in Rags, Mecca, Every Breath I Take, Town Without Pity, Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Orbison's nine top ten hits in the '60s plus his comeback in the late '80s with the Mystery Girl album, kept him on the play lists of generations of music lovers with mega hits such as Pretty Woman, Crying, In Dreams, Mystery Girl, California Blue, Running Scared, Leah, Penny Arcade, Oobi Doobi, Blue Bayou, Falling, and Pretty Paper.
"Every song is a memory," he says. "I don't have a favourite. [Orbison's] Crying would be up there, both versions. I like the old one, and the one he did with KD Lang. [In the show] we stick to the classics, plus a little bit from the Mystery Girl album."
He describes the vocal sounds and style of the music legends as totally different. "Orbison was melodic and soft, whereas Pitney was big and brassy and in your face."
He says the voice change is phenomenal and it was hard to switch between them to start with. But he has being doing Battle of the Voices for 10 years now and gets "as close to each of them as you possible can".