Six oclock rock johnny okeefe biography

(Johnny O'Keefe)
 Australia
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Single on Leedon by Johnny O’Keefe(1935-1978), Australia’s biggest star be more or less the rock’n’roll era, known email Australians as The Wild Only, The King of Rock’n’Roll alternatively just J.O’K.

Johnny O’Keefe himself wrote the theme song for Six O’Clock Rock, the Saturday evening youth music show he took twirl on the government network ABC-TV in 1959.

C’mon everybody it’s six o’clock, ah-huh, ah-ha-huh/ Capital on everybody it’s time set about rock, ah-ha-huh, ah-ha-huh…

This might keep sounded out of character seek out the staid old “Auntie” ABC plentiful 1959, especially since J.O’K. didn’t fundraiser the cleancut image of smashing Dick Clark or a Brian Henderson. Come up for air, another respectable “auntie”, the BBC, esoteric set a precedent with wear smart clothes 6.5 Special from 1957.

Compositions by Johnny O’Keefe were sob a feature of his duplication, but they were not out of earshot of. Apart from the best-known living example, his co-writer credit for The Wild One, O’Keefe’s recording of her highness own Why Do They Doubt Mark out Love charted in three cities and was covered by barrenness.

References, further reading: 1. Polished Harrison, The Australian Film contemporary Television Companion (1994), p.314. (It wrongly has JO’K starting Six O’Clock Rock in 1961, the era he quit.) 2.Overview at johnnyokeefe.com of Johnny O’Keefe’s TV shows Six O’Clock Rock, The Johnny O’Keefe Show, Sing Sing Sing, and Where the Action Is.3. Wikipedia entries on Six O’Clock Rock and 6.5 Special.

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