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Mo Awards
The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards) were an annual Australian entertainment industry award, that where established in 1975, to recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia. They were last awarded in 2016. Lucky Grills, actor and comedian came up with the idea to create an awards show to celebrate Australian Variety, during a meeting in 1975. The Mo Awards, initially were founded as the Star Awards and were a state honour in New South Wales only, local entertainers started the awards to promote the live entertainment industry in New South Wales. Johnny O'Keefe became chairman in 1976, and decided the awards should become an Australia-wide national awards program. Entertainer Don Lane then proposed the awards be renamed the Mo Awards in honour of Australian comedian and vaudevillian Roy Rene, who was famous for the character "Mo McCackie." Categories The award categories were reviewed annually and adapted to new tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Ashcroft
John Lewis Ashcroft FAIHA (1 February 1927 – 19 May 2021) was an Australian country music and folk entertainer, singer, songwriter, and musician, who also recorded pop, skiffle, jazz, and disco as his alter ego, the Baron. He was married to fellow performer Gay Kayler, with whom he recorded on numerous occasions. Career 1927–1953: Early personal and show business background As a child growing up during the Great Depression in Australia, Ashcroft lived in a bag shack with a dirt floor. An interest in Indigenous cultures, in particular Australian Aboriginal culture, was possibly influenced by these humble beginnings. (See ''The Imagine That! Australiana Show'' example in ''Production Shows'' below.) During World War II, Ashcroft began his career by playing guitar and singing mainly bush ballads. Ashcroft's first recording took place in 1946. It was "When I Waltzed My Matilda Away", and was distributed solely for radio airplayAustralia's Amateur Hour and First Recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Grills
Leo Dennis Grills OAM (26 May 1928 – 27 July 2007) professionally billed as Lucky Grills, was an Australian actor and comedian. His best known acting role was in the crime drama TV series '' Bluey'' playing the title role. Grills took his professionally working name after the Italian-American gangster Lucky Luciano. Grills is credited for initiating the ''Mo Awards'', an awards show that celebrate Australian Variety in 1975. Early life and career Born in Johnson St. Moonah, Tasmania, to Francis Leonard Grills and Hilda May (née Dennis) and was the youngest of four sibling, who were Thelda Jean Grills, Raymond Ernest, Eunice and Faye Grills. He was best known for portraying the title role of unconventional detective "Bluey" Hills in the television series '' Bluey'' in 1976. Prior to ''Bluey'', he worked as a stand-up comic in the Sydney clubs.TV Week magazine - "Bluey - TV's New Two-Fisted Cop" by Eric Scott, 3 April 1976 pages 20 & 56. He would change his material to sui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Kinsmen
The Four Kinsmen were an Australian vocal group formed in 1962 and become stalwarts of Australia's live performance circuit in the later part of the twentieth century and hold the record for the most Mo Awards wins. History In 1962, Bernard and Adrian Mahony joined with brothers Peter and George Fay to form The Four Kinsmen. Their first TV appearance was on the ''Kevin Dennis Auditions'' in July 1963. After appearing on the show multiple times, they went on to win and were given a spot-on Graham Kennedy's ''In Melbourne Tonight''. In 1964 they released their first single, "The Sphinx Won’t Tell"/"The Last Leaf", recorded at Television City in Melbourne, it reached number 10 on the Melbourne 3DB chart. More success followed before the group decided to leave for England and were given a three-month season with Dave Allen at a theatre restaurant. Whilst in England, the group worked with Engelbert Humperdinck, Des O'Connor, Val Doonican, Benny Hill and Moorecombe and Wise. While ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Durbin
Allison Ann Giles, who performed as Allison Ann Durbin (born 24 May 1950), is a former New Zealand Australian singer, known for her success in the late 1960s and 1970s as the " Queen of Pop". Durbin's visual trademark at that time was her lustrous waist-length auburn hair. She is a relative of Canadian-born actress and lyric soprano Deanna Durbin. Biography Allison Ann Durbin was born in 1950 in Auckland to Owen Durbin (born c. 1912/1913) and Agnes Durbin, the second eldest of seven children. She attended school at Westlake High School, and performed for four-years in a children's choir. She became interested in singing and was inspired by artists like Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Dionne Warwick, and began performing in public in her early teens. After winning a talent contest at an Auckland ballroom, she was signed to Eldred Stebbing's Zodiac Records at the age of 14 and issued a number of singles. Her third Zodiac single, a cover of Herman's Hermits "Can't You Hear My Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revesby, New South Wales
Revesby, a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 22 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South-western Sydney region. Revesby is mostly a residential suburb, which was developed as part of Sydney's post-war urban sprawl, and contains many modest freestanding bungalows built from asbestos cement sheeting (fibro). Revesby is bounded on the north by Canterbury Road and the suburbs of Bankstown and Condell Park, on the south by Revesby Heights and Picnic Point, on the Georges River, on the west by Panania, and on the east by Padstow. History Revesby was named in 1913 in honour of Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour, when he reached the east coast of Australia in 1770. Banks had inherited his father's estate of Revesby Abbey, in Lincolnshire, England, so he was known as the Squire of Revesby. He is also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Scott (voice Actor)
Keith Scott (born 28 October 1953) is an Australian voice actor, comedian, impressionist and animation historian. Career At a young age, Scott was always enchanted by the mimics and impressionists on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. He began developing his ability to impersonate voices in high school, doing cartoon characters (the first of which being Mr. Jinks) and teacher's voices. In October 1972, just after leaving school, Scott was hired by William Hanna, the head of Hanna-Barbera, which had established a large animation studio in Sydney, Australia. He got the gig when he brought in some letters that he had received from Daws Butler (voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, etc.) in December 1970. Hanna gave him a letter of recommendation when he was retrenched from the H-B office, and his name was such a credible one that it got Scott an instant agent, and his voice-over career began. In 1974, Scott began doing either impersonations or original character voices in many anonymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Farnham
John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry for ; retrieved 24 January 2010. His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985. In September 1986, his solo single "You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The associated album, ''Whispering Jack'', held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks and is the second-highest-selling album in Australian history. Both the single and the album had top-ten success internationally, including No. 1 in Sweden. Farnham has become one of his country's best-known and most popular performers, and he is the only Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Hannan
Jimmy Hannan (25 August 1934 – 7 January 2019) was an Australian radio and television personality, variety show host, singer, entertainer and game show host of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the pioneers of television, he appeared regularly on variety show ''In Melbourne Tonight'', and later hosted his own musical variety show ''Jimmy'', later called ''Tonight with Jimmy Hannan''. Hannan hosted music show '' Saturday Date'' from 1963 until 1967, which featured such performers as Billy Thorpe and Olivia Newton-John. He won the 1965 Gold Logie award for most popular personality on Australian television. Early life and career Hannan had his start musically performing in a big-band. As a teen idol, he often performed with people such as Johnny Devlin and Little Pattie. He released the single "Beach Ball", originally recorded by the City Surfers, in 1963. The song was written by Roger McGuinn who went on to become a member of the Byrds. The single reached number No. 2 on the local cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Adele
Janeece "Jan" Adele (14 April 1935 – 27 February 2000) was an Australian actress and entertainer active in many fields including circus, vaudeville, theatre, film and television. She was best known for her recurring comedy role of vaudevillian showgirl Trixie O'Toole in the 1970s television soap opera ''Number 96''. usually sharing scenes with co-stars Wendy Blacklock and Mike Dorsey. Career Early career Adele, is a fourth generation performer, her grandfather surname Roy Kelroy had worked for Barnum and Bailey circus in America. She appeared in pantomime from the age of three at Mark Foy's, her aunt Eilleen Pascoe Webb. ran an elocution and dance school in Melbourne, her mother known professionally as Eris O'Dell worked at the Tivoli and J.C. Williamson, a singer, actress and dancer and also played piano, and was an assistant producer to Jack Davey at the Macquarie theatre radio and to Wallace Parnell, at the Tivoli, Adele did not known her father. Adele had 2 children. Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Anthony (singer)
Julie Moncrieff Anthony Order of Australia, AM Order of the British Empire, OBE (, born 24 August 1949) is an Australian former professional singer and entertainer. Anthony is well known for her brief stint as lead singer of ''the Seekers'' A soprano, she has recorded both jazz and pop and is well-known for her live singing performances, variety appearances and roles in cabaret and theatre. Anthony has performed with numerous artists including Simon Gallagher and Anthony Warlow at the Sydney Opera House Through Anthony's extensive repertoire, she demonstrates great conviction, whether it be her rendition of "Amazing Grace" or material ranging from Stephen Sondheim to the Beatles. She recorded an album with jazz performer Don Burrows called ''Together at Last''. She sang the Advance Australia Fair, Australian National Anthem at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Sydney Olympics with Human Nature (band), Human Nature. Biography Early life and caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Crocker
Barry Hugh Crocker (born 4 November 1935 Official Barry Crocker website) is an Australian character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a vocal style known for his iconic Australian films during the 1970s '''' (1972) and sequel '''' (1974). Crocker was also the presenter and leading performer on the TV series ''The Sound of Music'', takin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim De Grey
Clifford Frank de Grey (20 May 1918 – 16 March 2007), better known as Slim De Grey, was an English-Australian actor, compere, musician, lyricist, composer and comedian. He served in the Australian Army during World War II, seeing action in the Malayan campaign with the 2/10th Field Ambulance, part of the 8th Division of the Second Australian Imperial Force. He became a POW at the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and was imprisoned in Changi Prison until the end of the war. While at Changi he composed, presented and produced shows. His television roles included ''Young Ramsay'', '' Bellamy'' and '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo''. He was married to Christina de Grey and they had two sons: Calvin, an actor (1957-2008); and Darrell. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Mo Awards. Select film credits *''They're a Weird Mob'' (1966) *''Wake in Fright'' (1971) *''Stone'' (1974) *''Newsfront'' (1978) *''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles'' (2001) * ''Changi'' (2001-TV mini-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
