Thread: William Boyd

i am a big fan of smokey dawson

Originally Posted by RichardK

Greenbottle, Stanforth, Bottomly, and DePledge came in later plus Dr Pymm, I think there were a couple of others as well.

I think the show was called Yes What.

Yes what, exactly.
I think that is some of the best stuff ever produced.
It rivals another of my alltime favourites that came along later. The Goon Show.
I wonder if those radio shows are available on tape or CD ? I must check.

Being in that job as a young bloke often put me in the right spot at the right time. About the same time 55-6, we were servicing the lighting at radio 2GB, phillip st,. I think, when Bob Hope arrived for a radio interview. I got to speak to him for a few minutes also. I dont remember being really impressed as I wasn't into musicals of the type he made with Bing Crosby.

I remember being really impressed the day we met Arthur Morris at Stack and Co in William Street where he was working. At that time I played cricket for the Fairfield Sports Club. Six or seven years earlier when we were kids on the farm we used to huddle around the wireless and listen to the test match broadcast. Even Pop would come in from the paddock when The Don was batting.

I'll take you back abit. When we were working in the city, we used to have a few beers at the Ship Inn at the Quay. I was under age but nobody cared. Then quite often we would ( Syd and I ) go over to Bennelong point to eat our sandwiches. At the street front at that time was the old tram shed and the park was by the water at the front. Shortly after, they tore the whole lot down and built the Opera house.

Cheers.

Robert.

Robert,I remember Dad & Dave, Jason & the Argonauts,and Randolph Scott was my favourite cowboy. Life was a lot simpler back then. Bob

Originally Posted by olbod

Perry, I think it might have had something to do with the hat.
He stood out.
In the forties us kids were wrapped in Hopalong, Tom Mix and Roy, we were avid collectors of those comics and later at the Saturday arvo pictures we cheered our hero's.
Didn't like Gene Autry.
I think Hoppy got his name because in the early days of chasing baddies, he got shot in the leg ?

For those to young to remember, Tom Mix was a famous cowpoke in his day. He died a hero whilst trying to save people from a theatre fire in 1929, I think.
He used to sneak up from behind and leap into the saddle, dig in his spurs and shout : DIG DIRT TONY.
Of course Tony in fright and pain would take off like a mad thing. Wouldn't need to slow down for roundabouts I bet. The Tom Mix movies were silent.
My all time favourite comic was and still is The Phantom !!!

Cheers.

Robert.

I dont think any more needs to be said

It's all good Robert

I may be just a youngster from the early 50's, but I remember all of those too and did enjoy them in their day.

Perry

[QUOTE=olbod;1763324]Yep, we used to listen to all that on the wireless.
Greenbottle was brilliant.
Another favourite at the time was Hop Harrigan.

In 1955 or 6,not sure exactly, when I was serving an apprenticeship with Consolidated Neon, we were inside a service station at West Ryde, I think. fixing the lighting. One of the blokes who worked there came rushing in and told us that Smokey Dawson was out the front filling up, he was an adult and nearly wetting himself !!! I never forgot that.
My mate rushed out to look but I didn't bother.
The day before I had spoken to Katherine Hepburn in Martin Place when her limo pulled up, I dont remember what was on at the time or why she was there.
I winked at her ( I must have been fifteen or so ) and she came over and spoke a few words to me, I think I did wet myself. Cripes she was beautiful.
Smokey who ? Quote

Did you know that most ( if not all ) of the cast of Greenbottle were killed in WW2? They reportedly joined the RAAF and went and served in the RAF in bomber command.They were very talented as were most of the Aussies that were on radio and besides the pictures radio was our only entertainment,especially in the bush areas.
Another thing, as I a kid, I was always fascinated by my uncles short wave radio and all used to crowd around it listening to the test cricket from the UK.The sound would go up and down and always when something big,like a dismissal happened.
Things were so simple in those days....don't you reckon?
Cheers,
John

Did you know that most ( if not all ) of the cast of Greenbottle were killed in WW2? They reportedly joined the RAAF and went and served in the RAF in bomber command.They were very talented as were most of the Aussies that were on radio and besides the pictures radio was our only entertainment,especially in the bush areas.
Another thing, as I a kid, I was always fascinated by my uncles short wave radio and all used to crowd around it listening to the test cricket from the UK.The sound would go up and down and always when something big,like a dismissal happened.
Things were so simple in those days....don't you reckon?
Cheers,
John[/QUOTE]

No, I did not know that John. Its sad but that sort of talent has gone forever and all to soon.

Bob, yes, Dad and Dave and Pa Rudd. I still love those old movies.
I watched an old Randolph Scott movie on TV last week I think, I cant remember what it was called ? I would have to go and pull the TV Week out of the bin to name it.
Remember the books about the English kid called William, I used to search all the libraries searching to find out what he was upto.

Yes, things were simpler in those days. We worked hard and had fun without hurting anyone and folk were definately more content than they are now, I think. When TV was introduced I immediately noticed the change in peoples behaviour. I didn't like it. Didn't matter much out in the scrub because we didn't need that crap. In stead of people visiting and all talking at the same time and having time for each other, we had to sit quietly, glued to the TV screen. Stuff what was going on next door or down the street, we had to shut most else out. We all seemed to start drifting apart and there seemed to be no going back.

Its funny the things that jog your memory.
The other day Martyn posted a picture of a plough, it all came flooding back. I might put that in another thread.

Cheers.

Robert.

Audie Murphy (Destry), the real deal and the reel deal. Clint Eastwood was the first cowboy with cool clothes. I never did like Hopalong, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers or The Cisco Kid (except for Pancho's "let's went" line). They dressed like sissies and their horses were show ponies...sorry about that.

If you dial up Utube, Yes what, there are plenty of episodes of Yes What................