Sixties Australia Pop; Johnny Young & Kompany - Step Back (1988 Festival)

Johnny Young will always be best remembered as the gentle, ever-smiling host of Young Talent Time, but back in the Sixties he was a bona fide pop idol and TV star. Johnny spent three frantic years as one of Australia’s top beat performers but his pop career fizzled out after an unsuccessful attempt to break into the UK scene, so he branched out in several directions, becoming a radio DJ, TV presenter, songwriter and record and TV producer. At the end of the Sixties, while most of his contemporaries were fading from view, Johnny's song-writing career blossomed with a string of chart-topping hits.

His songwriting is one of the least known of his many achievements, and certainly few of those who sat down every week to enjoy the wholesome performances of the Young Talent Team would have realized that the affable host was the composer of one of the classics of Australia acid rock. Moving into the Seventies, Johnny launched a hugely successful TV production house which created two of the most popular series of the day, the Happening 70s pop series and the long-running, award-winning Young Talent Time.(excerpt from Milesago. You find a great bio of Johnny Young here).

Enjoy the pop of Johnny Young.(Frank)

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