Jack’s music chronicled the times. He wrote about our adventurers, sports heroes and politicians. He wrote songs for silent movies, dance and theatre, semi classical and country & western, and peppered our radio with singing commercials. He even wrote a contender for the national anthem – ‘God Bless Australia’ to the tune of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ – which sadly did not win. There’s so much more to tell but here’s brief overview.
MILESTONES ALONG THE ROAD...
Credit: Jack O’Hagan, National Library of Australia, Collection Numbers nla.obj-94415145 and nla.obj-94415277.
Credit: Jack O’Hagan, National Library of Australia, Collection Number nla.obj-94415145.
Click to watch Jack O'Hagan Vocalist Composer : The only film of Jack O'Hagan performing his own songs, produced and directed by Frank Thring Senior, Efftee Entertainers, 1931.
Credit: Jack O’Hagan, National Library of Australia, Collection Number nla.obj-94415277.
Credit: Jack Lumsdaine and Jack O’Hagan (right) are Phee & Nix, stars of Phoenix Biscuit Company’s popular session on 3AW, 1934. Jack O’Hagan Collection, State Library of Victoria.
Reproduced here with permission from Caltex (Ampol) and Sony ATV (EMI Music Publishing).
Credit: The Hon. Peter Collins presents Platinum Award to Pamela Gilbert, 1988. APRA AMCOS.
