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Wed 29 Jul 1959 - The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982)
Page 6 - Youngest of the local rock-'n-rollers
Youngest of the local
rock-'n-rollers
. Youngest group on the bill of Lee Gordon's current Big
Show in Australia is new rock-'n-roll star Dig Richards and
his R-Jays. Dig is 19, and the average age of the group is 18.
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DIG RICHARDS, newest star in the local rock-'n-roll firmament, gets hep with the help of his R-Jays (from
left) Johnny Hayton, Barry Lewis, Peter Baker, and Jay Boogie.
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Dig Richards (above)
bears a striking resemb-
lance to U.S. actor James
Dean (below), the idol of
American teenagers, who
was killed when his sports
car crashed on a Cali-
fornian road in Septem-
ber, 195S.
Dig has the same lean,
loose - limbed look, the
same sensitive face and
rebellious hair as Dean,
who became famous as
the "Rebel Without a
Cause."
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OF the other Australian
bands on the Big Show
bill Johnny O'Keefe is 22,
and his Dee-Jays' average
age is 24; Johnny Devlin is
21 (Devil's average, 20);
Johnny Rebb is 20 (Rebels'
average, 22 ) ; Col Joye is
22 (the same as the Joye
Boys' average).
The Delltones, the Austra-
lian quartet on the bill, are led
by 21 -year-old Noel Widerberg
and the average age of these
Mronte (Sydney) Surf Club
members is also 21.
Dig told me: "Our group is
one of the youngest in the busi-
ness.
"Johnny Hayton, who plays
the guitar, is 17-he's a sales-
man. Jay Boogie, the pianist,
is 19 - he's a professional pian-
ist. Peter Baker, electric bass,
is 19, and Barry Lewis, the
drummer, is 17. Peter and Barry
work in banks.
Dig Richards' first record,
"Kansas City," hit the record
shops earlier this month.
I was curious about his name.
Was it from the rock-'n-roll word
"dig," so that everybody could
say, "I dig Dig," or "Do you
dig, Dig"?
"Oh, no, there's no connec-
tion," he said in his very quiet
voice. "I was christened Digby.
"But thc kids didn't dig Digby,
so we made it just Dig, which
is what everybody called me,
anyway.
"The R-Jays' nairne doesn't
mean anything, either."
Dig, who also plays a guitar,
but not with the R-Jays, came
from Narooma, on the N.S.W.
South Coast, where hts father
has an oyster farm.
"I did my Leaving Certificate
at Moruya High School," he
said, "and came to Sydney last
year to do a
trainee manager's
course with one of
the big depart-
ment stores.
"Music was just
a pastime with me
then. I used to
sing at home, in concerts and
things like that, but nothing
very much.
"One day last August I was
in a music shop in the city buy-
ing music for my young brother.
There were a couple of other
fellows trying out the guitars
and we started talking.
"Next thing we were playing
and having a little concert.*
"Later they told me their
names were Johnny Hayton and
Barry Lewis.
"Not long afterwards, we
formed a band and started to
run our own dances. We built
up a following until we were
playing three or four nights a
week.
"We decided to try television.
I went along to see Brian Hen-
derson at TCN, Channel 9 and
By ANNE
DWYER
suggested that he have a real
band-us-as well as {he re-
corded music he was using on
his programme 'Bandstand'.
"He agreed - and we made
our television debut.
"There were other television
dates, too, and then we in-
vited one of the record com-
panies to send a talent scout
out to our weekly dance at
Cabramatta.
"He asked us up
for an audition
and they decided
to record us play-
ing 'Kansas City.'
"The flipside is
'I Wanna Love
You.' and the ter
rifle part is that my young
brother, Doug, wrote it.
"There are only the two of
us. Doug's 16 and in fourth
year at school, but he's a terrific
musician; he can play absolutely
anything. He's working now on
some new songs for the extended
play wc have coming up.
"I gave up my job about two
months ago to concentrate on
music. We had played six nights
in a row and worked every day,
too. I was a real wreck.
"I thought about it a lot, but
there seemed a pretty good
chance that we would make
good.
"Some of our girls, who are
good organisers, got thousands
of signatures around the dances
and record bars, asking Lee
Gordon to put us on.
"It worked, and he has signed
me up for a year. Dad came up
from Narooma to help me with
the contracts.
"I hope to get a car out of
the Big Show-some kind of
sports car."
Dig lives in a boarding-house
in Randwick and goes home to
Narooma on rare free week-
ends.
"I used to play golf, tennü,
and football at home, bm I
don't have time for any of that
now," he said.
I asked him what was the
special appeal of rock-'n-roll.
"It's hard to say just whit it
is really," he said. "I suppose
it's the beat as much as :»ny
thing. And the kids seem to
want someone to look up to
a kind of hero-worship.
"It's a strange business to be
in. For one thing, you don't
know how long you're going to
last. It may be six or s vin
years, lt may be a lot less.
"When I'm finished with
rock-'n-roll, or it's finished with
me, I think I'd like to stav in
show business. Perhaps -ome
kind of acting. I've never done
any, but I'd love to."
Dig said that all rockers had
some kind of gimmick.
"Col Joye swings his arm
around and does a couple of
steps to one side," he said
"I have a flexible mike and I
guess I wave it about a bit. The
kids think so, anyway At
Cabramatta the other night they
presented me with a yo-yo.
"Apart from that, I just try
to be myself."
. To page 16 for
5-1N-1 pin-up of Dig
Richards, Johnny
O'Keef e, Johnny Dev«
lin, Johnny Rebb, and
Col Joye.
Article identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51601723
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APA citation
Youngest of the local rock-'n-rollers (1959, July 29).The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), p. 6 (Teenagers Weekly). Retrieved April 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51601723
MLA citation
"Youngest of the local rock-'n-rollers"The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) 29 July 1959: 6 (Teenagers Weekly). Web. 17 Apr 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51601723>.
Harvard/Australian citation
1959 'Youngest of the local rock-'n-rollers',The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 29 July, p. 6. (Teenagers Weekly), viewed 17 Apr 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51601723
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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51601723 |title=Youngest of the local rock-'n-rollers |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=27, |issue=[?] |location=Australia, Australia |date=29 July 1959 |accessdate=17 April 2025 |page=6 (Teenagers Weekly) |via=National Library of Australia}}

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