Edith Zuser was a pop singer who recorded under the stage name of Lolita. She was born in January of 1931, in St Polten, Austria.
Lolita’s recording career began in 1957 and in December of 1959 she recorded her only truly international success, the single, “Seeman, deine Heimat ist das Meer” (“Sailor, Your Home Is The Sea”). It peaked at No.5 in the United States, No.6 in Australia, and performed well in Japan as well as, of course, certain European nations.
Multilingual British singer, actress Petula Clark took her English cover titled “Sailor” and her French equivalent, “Marin (Enfant du voyage)” to the top of the charts on both sides of the English Channel, in 1961.
Lolita died from cancer in Salzburg, Austria, in June of 2010, at the age of seventy-nine.
It is an absolutely glorious autumnal day; about the tenth in succession.
Nancy Kovack guest stars as a singer under threat in “Mannix”.
“A Current Affair” may be viewed from seven o’clock this evening on Channel Nine. ABC-TV’s Channel Two screens “T.D.T.” (This Day Tonight) for thirty minutes from half past seven. “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2” continues for an hour on Channel Seven, from half past eight.
There is an article in today’s edition of “The Sun” which states that forty cane toads, from Queensland, that were let loose at Sydney University on Christmas Eve, are said to be responsible for the deaths of a cat and a dog at Kellyville, a western suburb of Sydney.
The cane toad, a native of South America, was introduced to Australia, from Hawaii, in 1935, to eat the beetle which was attacking crops of sugar cane. However, upon its release the poisonous cane toad decided that it was not as fond of the cane beetle as scientists had been led to believe.
In response to Hawaii allowing Australia to import the cane toad the archipelago was sent the tree that bears the macadamia nut.
In the centre of this same newspaper there is a photograph of tennis champion, Evonne Cawley (nee Goolagong), who, despite the fact that she is eight months pregnant, is clad only in a bikini.
Bernard William Jewry was born, in September of 1942, in London. While he was still a child, his family moved north to live in Nottinghamshire.
Bernard was a roadie with the group, Shane Fenton and The Fentones, and when Shane Fenton (nee John Theakstone) died, as the result of having rheumatic fever as a child, he was invited to become the new Shane Fenton.
The combination had four relatively minor hits covering a period of twelve months from October of 1961. The last of these, “Cindy’s Birthday”, was also the largest, ascending to No.19 on the singles chart in Britain. It was actually a cover of Johnny Crawford’s recording that had risen to No.8 in America, just a few months earlier. Johnny played Mark McCain in the highly popular television series, ‘The Rifleman’. In the series, his father, Lucas McCain, was portrayed by Chuck Connors; back in what truly was the golden age of television.
Once Shane Felton and The Feltones had disbanded, little was heard of Bernard. That is, until the early 1970s when he re-emerged having acquired the persona, Alvin Stardust, in the era of glam rock.
Alvin’s first single, “My Coo-Ca-Choo”, entered the British chart in November of 1973 and, in spite of peaking at No.2, was to spend some five months there.
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Nineteen seventy-four was to be Alvin’s most successful year. He took “Jealous Mind” to No.1, “Red Dress” to No.7, “You You You” to No.6, and “Tell Me Why” to No.16.
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Alvin’s only real achievement, in 1975, was to have “Good Love Can Never Die” reach No.11. Thereafter, a hiatus of some six years ensued before “Pretend” rose to No.4. The song had been a hit for Nat ‘King’ Cole, in 1953, and Gerry and The Pacemakers, in 1965.
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Three more years passed before “I Feel Like Buddy Holly” (No.7) established him as an extant recording artist, yet again.
In late 1984, “I Won’t Run Away” followed, reaching its zenith, at No.7, in early 1985.
In Australia, Alvin’s “My Coo-Ca-Choo”, was virtually his only hit, having risen to No.2, as it had in Great Britain. To my knowledge, he remains an unknown to the vast majority of Americans.
Bill Collins introduced the motion picture, “This Is My Love” (1954), at noon, on Channel Seven. It stars the late Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue — whose character’s husband, played by the late Dan Duryea, is confined to a wheelchair — as sisters, who are both vying for the love of the same man, portrayed by Rick “Combat” Jason.
From two o’clock, in a programme of the series, “Medical Center”, actor, Peter Haskell, who plays Charles Estep, in “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2”, is cast as a fellow who leads a young woman, with a tumour, into thinking he will take her on a trip to Australia. The show concludes with Chad Everett’s character, Dr Joe Gannon, declaring: “Who needs Australia?”
Anne Baxter guest stars on “Mannix”, at 3.00, as an actress who is haunted by her ‘dead’ husband, and sister.
I paid one dollar and twenty-five cents for a two-litre, plastic bottle of Sunburst orange juice; having ducked out between showers on a day of intermittent rain.
At 7.00, on Channel Nine, we watched “A Current Affair”. If this evening’s programme is indicative of the norm then it cannot hold a candle to “Willesee”! John Laws, a local radio personality and close mate of the American singer, songwriter, Roger Miller, is back in hospital. He was last admitted in March of 1974.
A concert by famed American, pianist and showman, Liberace, screens from half past seven. It was recorded in Melbourne last year. “The Amazing Howard Hughes: Part 2”, which stars Tommy Lee Jones, follows, at half past eight.
James Willaim Anderson III was born in November of 1937, in Columbia, South Carolina. Nevertheless, he spent his adaptational years in and around Atlanta, Georgia.
‘Bill Anderson’, as he became known, learned how to play the guitar while in his teens. He formed a hillbilly band, which he named The Avondale Playboys, in honour of his high school.
Bill obtained a degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, while he worked as a disc jockey and wrote articles on sport for a local newspaper. Another string to his bow was that of a songwriter and, in this regard, he did not have to wait for long to taste success as Ray Price recorded “City Lights” which spent thirteen weeks at No.1 on the country charts, in 1958.
Moving to Nashville, Bill was signed to Decca Records as a recording artist in his own right. “The Tip Of My Fingers” awarded him with his first Top 10 hit, in 1960, and, in 1961, he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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The songs and hits kept coming throughout the 1960s and the 1970s and, in the 1980s, Bill branched out to work on television. In 1989, his autobiography, ‘Whisperin’ Bill’, was published.
Many contemporary stars of country music have recorded material written by Bill Anderson. These artists include Vince Gill, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.
My favourite recordings of Bill Anderson’s are “Walk Out Backwards” (No.9, in 1960), “I Love You Drops” (No.4, in 1966) and “Wild Weekend” (No.2, in 1968). His largest hits were “Mama Sang A Song” (1962) and “Still” (1963). Each spent seven weeks at No.1 in its respective year.
We have had the papers, which pertain to our application for a mortgage, in order that we might purchase a house of our own, signed by a Justice of the Peace.
“Tubarubba” and “Swiftly Ann” finished second and third respectively, at the races in Sydney this afternoon.
Rex “Moose” Mossop provided the commentary on Channel Seven’s “Big League” programme as I watched Canterbury-Bankstown defeat South Sydney, by thirteen points to twelve, in the inaugural “League-a-thon” match; played at the Sydney Cricket Ground before a crowd of just thirteen thousand spectators.
Greek songstress, Nana Mouskouri, sings on ABC-TV, this evening from half past seven.
The New Zealand pacer, “Stanley Rio”, has finished second in a heat of the Inter-dominion series being held at Albion Park, in Brisbane. It has paid a return of twenty-six cents, on the place tote, on the N.S.W. T.A.B.
As both of the trousers to my pyjamas are on the clothes line, I have donned Tiki’s old blue nightie and, much to her amusement, am wearing it to bed.
Steve McGarrett, played by Jack “Stoney Burke” Lord, is framed for his girlfriend’s murder on this evening’s edition of the perennial series, “Hawaii Five-O”, from half past seven. The series was first screened, in Sydney, on ABC-TV.
The comical British film, “Carry On Camping”, screens from half past eight.