I first posted this on THURSDAY, 27 JANUARY 2011 Jimmy Little, singer songwriter and gentleman, was a very important figure in race relatio...

Sure I learned French for three years and actually passed my junior high exams. In those days there was no oral test, so my accent must hav...

Peter Young is an exceptionally personable young man who sold advertising for Channel 3 Newcastle but also played drums. It was in his drumm...

Jim McBeath’s impeccable arithmetical instruction was soon forgotten. Not many weeks after Joy Mulligan had been told her speedometer readin...

Peter Cairns, organist, pianist, singer and entrepreneur, died four years ago from cancer of the colon, as they say, survived by his wife Su...

Her car was old, so old we were not surprised Joy Mulligan’s little Toyota got the blame when she always seemed to arrive late for the gig a...

At South Sydney Leagues Club in the Will Dower Sounds band with Ricky May, late sixties, I witnessed something that was to me at once amazin...

When I was just old enough to understand, Great Uncle Owen told us he had been driving his T model Ford along Church Street Parramatta, when...

Donald Mills was the last of the original Mills Brothers , the four part harmony group that set the standard in the thirties. Unlike their c...

Tony Brady became a very successful Sydney based theatrical agent but before that, he had a short life as young Frank Sinatra. He certainly ...

Herbert Khaury arrived for rehearsal looking normal. His alter ego, Tiny Tim was well dressed, tall, normal build and spoke in a normal voi...

It is comforting to know our Customs Service is alert and thorough. Arriving home from our South Sea Island odyssey, Oriana docked at the In...

In the music industry, the busier we became the less we saw of other players and tended to become insulated within our own little circles. S...

Despite her astonishingly rich hormone saturated voice, huge sad eyes and generous body, to me she seemed oddly insecure, a little girl seek...

When Ricky May discovered the lead skater in the Pat Gregory Ice Show dead from heart failure back stage at Souths Leagues, you would have t...

I would wager my golden tooth caps that no tailor had ever heard such a strange request. But as we are talking of Ricky May, nobody should h...

Maybe it is saxophone players, but they are definitely the champs of absent mindedness and of those, Dave Rutledge was the best. Dagwood, so...

The comment about music and colour reminded me of a George Shearing quip, but before I tell you that, it was a fact that Dave Brubeck could ...

Herb Ellis, master guitarist, passed away last Sunday 28th March. He wasn’t my all time favourite player, but he was one of the greats. Alon...

There are some things we would rather forget that others would rather remember. In another life I was in Graham (Fatty) Lyle’s band at Chann...