Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.
Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
This is the second part of a 4-part program on the Life and Times of Bob Bright. In this part of his story, Bob shares how he discovered not just his love for Rock & Roll but that he had a really good voice for singing it. He entered a talent quest in the late 50’s while living in Adelaide and the contest was judged by non other than the great Johnny O’Keefe. Bob wins and a TV appearance is the prize and so it was that his career was off and running.
There are so many stories and Bob freely shares them including the story of how he got to Melbourne in the early 1960’s and met the man who would become both his musical partner, and life-long best friend, Laurie Allen. In telling the stories associated with this meeting and everything that eventuated we begin to understand how they formed the most popular Australian pop duo ever – that of Bobby and Laurie.
Click here to listen to Part 3
