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September 2015, Starr released a re-working of "I've Been Everywhere" titled, "We're Going Everywhere... On the Old Hume Highway". He has two children and a grandchild. As of July 2015 he was still performing regularly. As from October 2023 Starr was performing on the nostalgia circuit as the
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Australian performer to entertain the troops in Vietnam; in fact paying his own way there and made five subsequent trips into the war zone." During the late 1960s Starr performed as a country musician "and took his travelling show around the Australian bush." In 1980 he
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Caperero on lead guitar, Bruce Gurr on piano, Dave Taylor played bass guitar and Owen Smith provided drums and percussion. Starr recalled how, "the guitarist in his band taught him in five months." After winning several talent quests, "someone idly punned that he
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Commonwealth... sings each verse in one breath and you'll wonder how he does it when you hear it." Adapted to American
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Lucky Starr was born as Leslie
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912:"Mouseketeer Cheryl dies at 64, linked to Lucky Starr, Presley"
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643:"How Lucky Starr Reached Stardom"
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710:"Listen Here with Ainslie Baker"
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838:"Interview with Lucky Starr"
429:(July 1962) Festival Records
867:"The Sapphires Are Soaring"
467:"Mule Skinner Blues" (1963)
442:"The Big Hurt" (March 1960)
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261:Controversy
161:Lucky Starr
115:Instruments
95:Occupations
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22:Lucky Starr
1213:Categories
1160:8 February
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596:Noble Park
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529:References
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187:Early life
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29:Birth name
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1113:Mo Awards
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376:Dinah Lee
298:Hank Snow
244:Bandstand
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