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Smoky Dawson
Smoky Dawson is credited on 93 releases across 32 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2015 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
93
Pressings credited
32
Albums
7
Decades active
4
In collections
Biography
Smoky Dawson (19 March 1913 – 13 February 2008), born as Herbert Henry Brown, was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician, who performed western and folk music with a tinge of country, he was a radio and television presenter and entertainer. He was widely touted as Australia's first singing cowboy complete with acoustic steel string guitar and yodel, in the style of Americans Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Dawson began performing professionally in 1932 and released his last album in 2005, aged 92. Through his high-rating syndicated radio serials (at their height broadcast on 100 stations), The Adventures of Smoky Dawson, as well as television appearances, comic books and songs, he created the persona of a happy-go-lucky singing cowboy. Dawson did his own version of the western standard "Wild Colonial Boy", rewriting the words and music with American country singer Glen Campbell. Dawson also met The Kelly Family, and wrote a ditty about Jim Kelly, the brother of Ned Kelly.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
93 releases · 32 albums · active 1954–2015
- Performance · 103
- Other credits · 10
Studios: Axent Studios · Lindsay Butler Studios · Silverwood Studios · Skylab Studios, Sydney
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Barry Thornton
- Lee Kernaghan
- Ian McNamara
- Jean Stafford
- Jewel & Arthur Blanch
- The Howie Brothers
- Coad Sisters
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