Alannah Myles

Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses

The roses they can't hurt you
I know the roses they can't hurt you

Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown
Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown
The saddest thing in the whole wide world
Is to see your baby with another girl
Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown

4 bar solo

Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses

When Alannah Myles played the role of a young aspiring singer on an episode of The Kids Of Degrassi Street, it was more than just an act. Less than a decade later, the daughter of Canadian Hall Of Fame Broadcaster William Douglas Byles would be a Grammy and Juno Award-winning singer best known for her 1990 international hit “Black Velvet”.

Myles (who changed her last name from Byles as a teen) began writing songs at nine and was participating in Toronto’s Kiwanis Music Festival at twelve. While gigging solo at nineteen across southern Ontario, songwriter/musician Christopher Ward invited her to form a rock and blues cover band with him. During this time Ward became MuchMusic’s first VJ.

Ward spent seven years trying to get Myles signed. He produced a three song demo for her, and her entertainment lawyer Stephen Stohn came up with the idea of making a ‘video demo’ of Myles singing “Just One Kiss”. This finally attracted Warner Music Canada in 1987. The demo was passed along to Warner’s US affiliate labels and Atlantic Records also took interest.

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