As a performer who could sing his own songs, Jack O’Hagan was first to be filmed in Frank Thring Senior’s Entertainers series on popular artists. The 7-minute film was made in 1931 as a support to the feature film Diggers. Jack sings a selection of his own compositions – ‘Carry On’, ‘By the Great Big Blue Billabong’, In Dreamy Araby’, ‘After the Dawn’ and ‘Along the Road to Gundagai’. This was the first and only time Jack performed on film.
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Credit: Efftee Presents Jack O’Hagan Vocalist Composer, Efftee Entertainers, 1931.
Ampol Australia produced a 3-minute film featuring ‘God Bless Australia’, written to the tune of Waltzing Matilda’, as a tribute to Australia Day and Jack O’Hagan. It was introduced by Brian Henderson and broadcast nationwide on GTV-9 at prime time (8pm) on 28 January 1968. It is reproduced here with permission from Caltex (Ampol) and Sony ATV (EMI Music Publishing).
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