The Good Old Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Get set to be transported back to The Good Old Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll when five musical legends of the ’60s get together at Wollongong Town Hall.

Many talented performers had their start on television shows including Johnny O’Keefe’s Six O’Clock Rock and Brian Henderson’s Bandstand.

In The Good Old Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll, audiences will relive favourite songs from the hitmakers themselves – Little Pattie, Digger Revell, Jade Hurley, Dinah Lee and Lucky Starr.

Little Pattie’s debut single ‘He’s My Blonde Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy’, which used the surf music style and a dance style craze known as the Stomp, was released in November 1963 when she was just 14.

It reached number two on the Sydney music charts and she went on to have such hits as ‘We’re Gonna Have a Party Tonight’, ‘Pushin’ a Good Thing Too Far’, and ‘Dance Puppet Dance’.

Dinah Lee is a New Zealand-born superstar whose international number one hits include ‘Don’t You Know Yockomo’, ‘Reet Petite’, and ‘Do the Blue Beat’.

Jade Hurley, dubbed by Johnny O’Keefe as Australia’s king of country rock, has achieved gold, platinum or double platinum status in both Australia and New Zealand with every record he ever released.

Lucky Starr is an Australian pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll, pop and country music.

His most popular single, ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’, appeared in early 1962 and peaked at number one.

During the late 1960s he took his travelling show around the Australian bush and he was inducted into the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame.

Digger Revell was credited with pioneering rock ‘n’ roll in Australia.

He has performed with some of the greats, including Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell and Johnny O’Keefe.