More Info →Joe Brown’s Search for Stars

Description

This image was likely taken by Frank Goldingham for Photorama pictorial magazine’s June 1960 edition but was not published.

Other images of the Search for Stars were published in this edition, but the original negatives are not held. The captions for those images quote the following performers:
Guitar vocalist Hazel Mercer, balancing act Garth Scott and Ray McKenzie, The Wood sisters, Eddie Davis, Larry Sykes and Tommy Scandle, Johnny and the Jags and eventual winner of the Palmerston North performance Joe Nathan.

Joe Brown’s Search for Stars was a travelling radio broadcast that began in 1959 and unearthed future New Zealand stars such as Dinah Lee and Bunny Walters. The compere was Selwyn Toogood.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

A175-451

Date

June 1960

Digitisation ID

2022N_2022-38_P269_039439_008

Format

B&W negative

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