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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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in Sydney. Other members were Tony
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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described the track, "It's a hard hitting novelty number with a slight C and W flavour. Full of gimmicks it features high velocity lyrics in which Lucky recites 120 towns in the
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
William Morrison in 1940. His father was a motor mechanic and his mother was a housewife, and he had a younger sister and an adopted older sister (who was his cousin but adopted into the family when her parents passed away). He attended
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923:"Mouseketeer Cheryl dies at 64, linked to Lucky Starr, Presley"
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354:Starr issued another solo album,
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744:Note: includes a photo of Starr.
721:"Listen Here with Ainslie Baker"
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484:"Poor Little Jimmy Brown" (1964)
1013:Baker, Ainslie (25 July 1962).
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903:Forever Hold Your Banner High
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849:"Interview with Lucky Starr"
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878:"The Sapphires Are Soaring"
478:"Mule Skinner Blues" (1963)
453:"The Big Hurt" (March 1960)
416:The Silver Spade Digs Lucky
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126:Instruments
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33:Lucky Starr
1224:Categories
1171:8 February
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607:Noble Park
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540:References
411:(FL 30807)
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198:Early life
65:1940-12-29
40:Birth name
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255:Bandstand
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