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Tagged: 1960s
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Barry Jones introduces his 3DB show and discusses road rules with a caller on the second day of legal talkback radio in Australia, 18 April 1967.
Read more about the introduction of talkback radio in...
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In this excerpt from an oral history interview with Max Merritt, he talks about being discovered by Harry M Miller in New Zealand after he stole the show as opening act for Johnny O'Keefe.
Nick Weare...
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‘Louie the Fly’ first appeared on Australian television in 1957, going on to become one of the most recognisable characters in Australian advertising.
The iconic ‘Louie the Fly’ jingle debuted in...
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This recording was made on 27 March 1966 at central railway Station, Sydney, NSW. It features the whistle of Mikado 59 class engine 5914 leaving Central for Katoomba, preceded by an announcement.
The...
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'The richest, reddest, roundest, tastiest, tomato there is for soup.'
Jack Grimsley composed this jingle for Heinz Tomato Soup.
Advertising proclaimed that the soup was produced from the ‘Heinz...
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Jack Grimsley composed this jingle for Brockhoff Chocolate Biscuits.
Brockhoff Biscuits was a Melbourne-based company founded in 1880. In the 1950s it combined with Arnott’s and Guest’s to compete...
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Vera Lynn, English singer, songwriter and actress, interviewed by Binny Lum in 1963.
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Radio announcer Ron Casey calls the closing minutes of the bantamweight world title fight between Lionel Rose of Australia and 'Fighting’ Harada of Japan on 26 February 1968.
Summary by Graham...
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Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist, is interviewed by Binny Lum in London, England in 1964.
Whiteley talks about his upcoming solo exhibition at Marlborough Galleries and the figurative...
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For sheer whimsy, it is hard to go past the one minute and forty seconds of 'He’s My Blond Headed Stompie Wompie Real Gone Surfer Boy’ by the 14-year-old Little Pattie.
Apart from being one of the...