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Yvonne Barrett
Yvonne Frances Barrett (19462 September 1985) was an Australian pop singer. She reached the top 60 Kent Music Report singles chart with her cover versions of " You're the One"/"Little People", in October 1965. She released other singles in that, and the following, decade. Barrett also appeared on TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s. She became a session singer and performed on the club circuit. Barrett married Hoang Van Truong, a former Vietnam War veteran, in December 1983; the couple separated in the following year. Truong was found guilty of Barrett's 1985 murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, in August 1986. Biography Yvonne Barrett was the daughter of Ted and Sheila Barrett, and was raised with two siblings. The family lived in Braybrook, Victoria. Barrett started ballet lessons at the age of two and a half. In January 1957 she performed in the pantomime, ''Jack and Jill'', at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. Note: includes a photo of Barrett, ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braybrook, Victoria
Braybrook is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Maribyrnong Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Braybrook recorded a population of 9,682 at the . Braybrook is bounded in the west by Duke Street, in the north by the Maribyrnong River, in the east by Ashley Street, and in the south by the Sunbury railway line and Sunshine Road. History Braybrook Post Office opened on 1 December 1860. Braybrook is primarily an industrial suburb. Today Approximately midway between the former Councils of City of Footscray, Footscray and City of Sunshine, Sunshine in the heart of the western suburbs before the more recent urban sprawl and due west from the Melbourne CBD along Ballarat Road, Melbourne, Ballarat Road, Braybrook is starting to resemble a bedroom community due to a recent expansion of the western suburbs of Melbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Go!! Show
''The Go!! Show'' (also known simply as ''Go!!'') was an Australian popular music television series which was produced before a live audience and aired on Network Ten ATV-0, Melbourne, from August 1964 to August 1967, running one hour three nights a night. It was produced by Willard-King Productions, DYT Productions. Over its run it was hosted, in turn, by Alan Field (1964), Ian Turpie (1964–66) and Johnny Young (1966–67) and Ronnie Burns The series was known for having a regular roster of performers including The Strangers, a line of go-go dancers who appeared from week to week, Olivia Newton-John and Pat Carroll, Lynne Randell, Normie Rowe and The Twilights. History When the Melbourne-based ''Go Show!!'' premiered in August 1964, the other major competing television popular music show series ''Bandstand'', was made by the Nine Network in Sydney. While that series had been an important outlet for the first wave of Australian rock'n'roll, it did not engage strongly w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go-Set Pop Poll Results
''Go-Set'' was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble. NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages. Widely described as a pop music "bible", it became an influential publication, introduced the first national pop record charts and featured many notable contributors including fashion designer Prue Acton, journalist Lily Brett, rock writer / band manager Vince Lovegrove, music commentator Ian "Molly" Meldrum, rock writer / music historian Ed Nimmervoll and radio DJ Stan Rofe. It spawned the original Australian edition of ''Rolling Stone Australia, Rolling Stone'' magazine in late 1972. History Foundation: 1964–1967 In 1964, Monash University student newspaper ''Chaos co-editors, John Blakeley, Damien Broderick and Tony Schauble, renamed the paper ''Lot's Wife (student newspaper), Lot's Wife''. Phillip Frazer was a staffer and later became co-editor wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viet Cong
The Viet Cong (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, and conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV). The movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and United States governments during the Vietnam War. The organization had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized and mobilized peasants in the territory the VC controlled. During the war, communist fighters and some anti-war activists claimed that the VC was an insurgency indigenous to the South that represented the legitimate rights of people in South Vietnam, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of North Vietnam. It was later conceded by the modern Vietnamese communist lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McFarlane
Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the ''Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' (1999), which was updated for a second edition in 2017. As a journalist he started in 1984 with '' Juke'', a rock music newspaper. During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide, ''The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 1976–1980'' (1992). He followed with two fanzines, ''Freedom Train'' and ''Prehistoric Sounds'', both issued during 1994 to 1996. McFarlane's ''The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' is described by the ''Australian Music Guide'' as "the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards". Subsequently, he was a writer for ''The Australian'' and worked for Raven Records, a reissue specialist label, preparing compilations, writing liner notes and providing research. He fulfilled a similar role a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being '' The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial, war museum, museum and archive dedicated to all Australians who died as a result of war, including peacekeeping duties. The AWM is located in Campbell, Australian Capital Territory, Campbell, a suburb of the Australian capital city of Canberra. The grounds include five buildings and a sculpture garden. Most of the museum galleries and commemorative areas are contained in the Memorial Building. Plans to build a national war memorial and museum were initiated shortly after the First World War, with the AWM formally established through federal legislation in 1925. Designs for the AWM were created by Emil Sodersten and John Crust, although the onset of the Great Depression delayed its construction. Work on the Memorial Building progressed in the mid-1930s, and the AWM was officially opened to the public in 1941. Several structures designed by Denton Corker Marshall were built on the grounds from the 1980s to 2000s, to hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Carroll (singer)
Pat Carroll (born 1946) is an Australian singer in the 1960s and early 1970s, she is probably best known for her television appearances and her collaboration with Olivia Newton-John. Biography and career Carroll was born in Melbourne, Victoria began her entertainment career at age eight when she started taking singing and dancing lessons. Appearances on children's TV shows followed by the time she was eleven years old. She continued by appearing in musical comedy shows such as ''Carnival'' and ''Bye Bye Birdie''. This led to appearing on national Australian pop TV shows such as ''Bandstand'' and ''The Go!! Show'' when in her mid-teens. Her first 45 single "He's My Guy" was released when she was 18. In the mid-1960s Carroll and her friend Olivia Newton-John formed a singing duo called ''Pat and Olivia''. Having won a song contest in Melbourne, they travelled to the United Kingdom. They achieved some success there on TV and in the clubs. After a period of performing there, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Hanlon Jr
Tommy Hanlon Jr. (14 August 1923 – 11 October 2003) was an American-born actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, notable for his career in Australia after emigrating there in 1959, where he became a Gold Logie-award-winning media personality, in 1962. Hanlon was notable for his early television appearances on daytime television and as host of the Australian version of United States game show ''It Could Be You''. Biography Early life He was born Tommy Gene Thomason in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1923, to vaudeville performers Homer Emmons Thomason (whose stage name was "Tommy Hanlon") and Ruth Dorothy Manning. He appeared in his parents' act at the age of four, and later took the stage name Tommy Hanlon Jr. after his father's stage name. Professional career Hanlon first appeared on his own as a magician as a teenager and was an entertainer for the rest of his life. After two years with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in Los Angeles in the 1940s, and appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Turpie
Ian Bruce Turpie (6 November 1943 – 11 March 2012), sometimes referred to as Turps, was an Australian performer, actor (theatre, television, film), pop singer and presenter (television, radio). He was the host of the teen pop music TV show, ''The Go!! Show'' (1965–66) and various TV game shows, ''The Price Is Right (Australian game show), The Price Is Right'' (1981–1985, 1989), and ''Supermarket Sweep Australia, Supermarket Sweep'' (1992–1994). As a TV actor he portrayed Keith Warne on ''Swift and Shift Couriers'' (2008, 2011) and Wazza and Narrator in ''Housos'' (2011). He was diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, oesophageal cancer in 2011 and died the following year, aged 68. Early life Ian Bruce Turpie was born on 6 November 1943 at Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Ferntree Gully's Bush Nursing Hospital to Don Turpie (1911–1990), a shipping clerk and Joyce ( Olson, 1917–1999) and grew up with six siblings. He attended nearby Boronia, Victoria, Boronia State School, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turramurra, New South Wales
Turramurra is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. It shares the postcode of 2074 with the adjacent suburbs of North Turramurra, South Turramurra and Warrawee. History Turramurra is an Aboriginal word which is thought to mean either ''high hill'', ''big hill'', ''high place'', or ''small watercourse''.McCarthy; 1963, cited in The Aboriginal reference of high hill covered the range from Pymble to Turramurra. Early European settlers referred to the area as Eastern Road. The district was originally known as Big Island, Vanceville and Claraville (after names of estates or grants), and further north as Tulip Scrub from the large number of tulips or waratahs there. Turramurra means "high hill" or "big hill". It was also known as Irish Town. More than 100 years ago remnants of a tribe of aboriginal people p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
