Bryan Davies

A Brief History

Bryan at 17 became the youngest person in the world to host his own television show "The Bryan Davies Show" on the ABC. He went on to become a regular on Sing! Sing! Sing!" and one of the family on "Bandstand". The first major satire television show in Australia was the "Mavis Bramston Show" and Bryan was a cast member for two years. "Dream Girl" was Bryan's number one hit and some of his others hits were "Five Foot Two", "I Don't Want To Be Alone", "Raincoat In The River", "Love and Money" and "10 Pin Bowling". Bryan was flown to the UK and based in London to record with Norrie Paramour


Bryan Davies on TV Program Teen Time

One guest artist, BRYAN DAVIES, making his first appearance on television on September 27, 1960, brought along his father who had gone to the trouble of writing out the music for the song that Bryan had chosen to sing on the show. “Not another stage-father?” mumbled Jon. Bryan’s dad handed out the homemade music to Jon who puzzled over it for a few minutes, then handed it around to the rest of the band who looked suitably impressed and amazed. The sheet of music consisted entirely of crotchets going up and down at random. No bar lines, no chords, no words, no nothing! Bryan’s father must have stayed up all night trying to transcribe the melody line, note for note. Jon broke the studious and silent pondering of the music, “Could we have a quick listen to the record?”

“Sure!” said Bryan who, much to Jon’s relief, played us Elvis Presley’s record of Treat Me Nice. As the record finished we immediately launched into the song with Bryan singing along and played it exactly the same as the record, much to the amazement of Bryan and his dad. His father thought that we had memorised the sheet of paper with the music on it. Indeed, Bryan was so excited with the backing we gave him on the show that, instead of bowing to the camera at the end, he turned around and bowed to the band!

As we went to a commercial break, Bryan noticed that I was shaking my head. “Did I do all right?” said Bryan, looking like a puppy dog who had just returned a stick. “Yes Bryan, you sang it perfectly except that when you finish the song you’re not supposed to bow to the band. When you did that, you gave the audience the arse!” “Oh yes, of course,” said Bryan, looking rather dejected and wondering if his career was finished. Bryan needn’t have worried. He made plenty more appearances after that and even ended up with his own TV show!

THE BRYAN DAVIES SHOW

ABC / 75x60m-e / 1962-63 Black and white

Producer: Lloyd Brydon

Teen music show hosted by 17 year old Bryan Davies who at that time was the youngest person to host his own show. Regulars included Neil Williams, Judy Cannon and the Don
Burrows Sextet.

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