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Happy Hammond
Harry Montague Hammond (7 May 1917 – 1 April 1998), professionally known as Happy Hammond, was an Australian comedian, radio host, children's television show host, and television producer. Biography and broadcasting career Happy Hammond was born in the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill, the youngest of three children. His parents were both deaf and mute. He was famous for his bright personality and wearing a tartan suit and hat, sometimes referred to as his "test pattern" outfit, with colors that clashed in real life but worked well on black-and-white TV. His catchphrase was "Is everybody happy?" along with the theme song for the show, "Happy Days Are Here Again". The nickname "Happy" came from his time in the Australian Army during World War II. He served in the South West Pacific Area and, following a few concerts, was transferred to the Australian Army Entertainment Unit, the "Boomerangs", entertaining Australian troops in combat areas. He performed in concerts with Keith Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Hill, New South Wales
Summer Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Summer Hill is located 7 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. Summer Hill is a primarily residential List of Sydney suburbs, suburb of Sydney's Inner West, adjoining two of Sydney's major arterial roads, Parramatta Road and Hume Highway, Liverpool Road. The first land grant was made in 1794 to former convict and Prison officer, jailor Henry Kable, and the suburb began growing following the opening of the railway station on the Main Suburban railway line, in 1879. By the 1920s, the suburb had become relatively upper class, with large estates and mansions built throughout the suburb. Some of these still exist today. Following a transition to a working class, working-class suburb in the mid-20th century, when many of the large estates were demolished or subdivided, the suburb today has a "village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K Rock 95
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''kay'' (pronounced ), plural ''kays''. The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. History The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for "hand" representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian word for hand, ⟨ ḏ-r-t⟩ (likely pronounced in Old Egyptian). The Semites evidently assigned it the sound value instead, because their word for hand started with that sound. K was brought into the Latin alphabet with the name ''ka'' /kaː/ to differentiate it from C, named ''ce'' (pronounced /keː/) and Q, named ''qu'' and pronounced /kuː/. In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters C, K and Q were all us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Gordon
Vic Gordon (4 March 1911 – 2 December 2003) was a British Australian character actor of vaudeville, television and film, best known for his achievements in the fields of drama, light entertainment, music and comedy. Biography Vic Gordon was born in March 1911 in London, England. He moved to Australia in 1959 where his early performances were in comedy and vaudeville alongside celebrities such as Maurie Fields, Val Jellay and Peter Colville. He was known as Vic "Funnyface" Gordon on the HSV-7 Melbourne and ATN-7 Sydney television afternoon children's programme: ''The Happy Show'' (1960–1965), with Harry "Happy" Hammond. Gordon, like many early Australian TV actors, was a staple of Crawford Productions. He appeared in 16 different roles in ''Homicide'' and 9 roles in ''Division 4'', before becoming a regular as the no-nonsense desk Sergeant Bert Kennedy, in the production ''Matlock Police'', and as (Jack Lambert) on ''Young Ramsay''. Later roles included ''The Flying Doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panda Lisner
Panda Lisner (born Joan Dorothy Kelly; 29 August 1930 – 2011) was an Australian model and television presenter, most notable for her work during the early days of Australian television. Lisner is arguably best known for her time as a "barrel girl" on the prize wheel audience-participation segment of the live variety show, ''In Melbourne Tonight''. On 31 August 1966 she joined only a handful of women who filled in as replacement comperes for Graham Kennedy in the first 10 years of that program. Personal life She was born in Claremont, Western Australia. Her first marriage to actor Francois Lisner, which produced a son, ended in divorce in 1959. In 1961, Panda Lisner married American entertainer and band leader Jimmy Allan, and they eventually relocated to the United States of America in the late 1960s to work in Las Vegas after obtaining residency permits.Lennon, Troy (7 May 2016Winning a Gold Logie is not always a passport to stardom ''The Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved 9 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarax
Tarax is an Australian brand of soft drink, available in several flavours, and sold in cans and bottles. The name ''Tarax'', itself was the brand-name of an independent soft drink manufacturer and bottler, from the state of Victoria. History George Pethard Snr. (1855–1929), an English-born storeman based in Numurkah, Victoria, established a business selling a herbal soft drink described as a "non-alcoholic beer" made without yeast, known as "Taraxale". "Tarax" derived from "taraxacum", the Latin name for the dandelion. George Pethhard Jnr. (1885–1961) joined his father's business in 1898 and moved to Bendigo in 1902, establishing the business behind "Taraxville", his home in the suburb of Golden Square. The business was expanded between the Wars, with Tarax Bars being established throughout Victoria. After World War II, the company restricted itself to selling conventional carbonated soft drink. Awards In the 1950s Tarax won an Australian Institute of Food Science and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HSV (TV Station)
HSV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, its first and oldest station. It launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne. HSV-7 is the home of Australian Football League, AFL coverage. The HSV building (also known as 'Broadcast Centre Melbourne') was the network's operations hub, where the Master Control Room was located, controlling all metropolitan and regional feeds. Its headquarters is next to Etihad Stadium (now Docklands Stadium, Marvel Stadium). Programming lineup, advertisement output, feed switching, time zone monitoring and national transmission output was previously delivered there. All Seven Network owned and operated studios had their live signals relayed there: for instance, ATN's output was fed to HSV and then transmitted via satellite or fibre optics to towers around metropolitan Sydney. In 2019 this function was transferred to a new cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonsdale Street
Lonsdale Street is a main street and thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district, Australia. It runs roughly east–west and was laid out in 1837 as one of Melbourne's original boundaries within the Hoddle Grid. The street extends from Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street in the east to Spencer Street in the west. Lonsdale Street is home to multiple office buildings, churches, restaurants and shopping centres. Its most notable function is housing the Victoria (Australia), State of Victoria's legal precinct and Courthouse, courthouses. The street is also named for Melbourne's first magistrate, William Lonsdale (colonist), William Lonsdale. History 19th Century Lonsdale Street was included in the grid developed by Robert Hoddle, the chief surveyor for the new settlement of Melbourne. Whilst Lonsdale and other streets were originally designed at 99 feet, then Governor Richard Bourke initially objected to the large sizing. Hoddle persuaded him, on the basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emporium Melbourne
Emporium Melbourne (or simply Emporium) is a luxury shopping centre on the corner of Lonsdale and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Occupying the former Lonsdale Street site of Myer's Melbourne store, Emporium opened in 2014 following extensive redevelopment. The centre includes a food court, specialty stores and several multi-level anchor retailers. Emporium forms part of a precinct of linked shopping centres in the Melbourne central business district, which also includes the Myer and David Jones city stores, Melbourne Central, General Post Office and Elizabeth Street's The Strand. History From 1911 to 1934, Melbourne businessman Sidney Myer acquired and constructed 10 buildings between Lonsdale and Bourke streets in the central city while establishing his Myer chain of department stores. The first new building was completed facing Bourke Street in 1914, and the 8-storey structure was named the "Myer's Emporium". In 1925, work began on a new, 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarax Show
''The Tarax Show'' was an early Australian children's TV program on GTV (Australia), GTV-9 in Melbourne running from 1957 to 1969. Synopsis Denzil Howson who was then Assistant Program Manager at GTV9, was asked by Norman Spencer to develop a daily children's program. A pilot of the show was kinescope recorded onto film. The program started on Melbourne's GTV-9 on 21 January 1957 (only two days after the official opening of GTV9), debuting from the Myer Emporium Lonsdale St store window, as the GTV9 studios in Bendigo Street, Richmond were still under construction. Normally the program was produced from GTV-9, but some editions were taped at ATN-7 in Sydney to help build the audience there. Beginning under the name ''The Happy Show'', the first host was Happy Hammond, who had come to television from radio. The program was sponsored by Tarax, Tarax Drinks from April 1957, with the name changing to ''The Tarax Happy Show''. The show was co-hosted by Princess Panda (Panda Lisner}. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GTV (Australian TV Station)
GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia, owned by the Nine Network. The station is currently based at studios at 717 Bourke Street, Docklands, Victoria, Docklands. GTV-9 is the home of the Australian Open tennis coverage. History GTV-9 was amongst the first television stations to begin regular transmission in Australia. Test transmissions began on 27 September 1956, introduced by former 3DB (Melbourne), 3DB radio announcer Geoff Corke, based at the Mount Dandenong transmitter, as the studios in Richmond were not yet ready. The station covered the 1956 Summer Olympics which Melbourne hosted., the 1956 Carols By Candlelight and the Davis Cup tennis as part of its test transmissions. The station was officially opened on 19 January 1957 by Victorian Governor Dallas Brooks, Sir Dallas Brooks from the studios in Bendigo Street, Richmond. GTV-9 was the third television station to launch in Victoria after HSV-7 and ABV-2, on 19 January 1957. A clip from the cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Whitta
Clifford Nicholls "Nicky" Whitta (24 September 1903 – 8 September 1956) was a popular Australian radio personality.Whitta, Clifford Nicholls (1903–1956) , '' (Volume 16)'', 2002. Accessed 28 May 2017. He originally broadcast as Nicky Nicholls. He is also credited with being a mentor to during his early care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy Order of Australia, AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, radio and television host as well as a personality and actor of theatre, television and film. He was often referred to as "The King of Television" or simply "The King" and called "Gra Gra" (pronounced "gray-gray"). Honoured as an officer of the Order of Australia, he was a six-time recipient of the Gold Logie, including the List of Logie Hall of Fame inductees, Logie Hall of Fame award, and won the Star of the Year Award in 1959. He is the most awarded star of Australian television. He was known for his radio and television collaboration's with Bert Newton including on In Melbourne Tonight and The Graham Kennedy Show. Early life Childhood and education Kennedy was born in Camden Street, Balaclava, Victoria, Balaclava, a suburb of Melbourne to Cyril William Kennedy and Mary Austin Kennedy (née Scott). Kennedy's mother, who was 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
