The Masters Apprentices

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the Masters Apprentices.

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The couple had two children.

Uh, Farnham was being managed, had been managed by Daryl Sambell from 1967 to 1976, and by his long-term friend Glenn Wheatley, who, uh, originally played in The Masters Apprentices, of course, uh, from 1980 to the latter's death in 2022.

Uh, Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described John Farnham as the most popular s- and successful solo artist in history of Australian rock and pop.

Now I'm gonna play When Something Is Wrong With My Baby, with Jimmy Barnes...

Yep.

The premature Deathalyzer inclusion of Doug Ford from the Masters Apprentices.

Sorry, Doug.

No. Doug is a lead guitarist in the Masters in their big lineup.

Absolutely correct.

I saw coming up at the Northgate Club in the next few weeks is the Masters Apprentices, but...

They've lost two members, I think.

They've lost Jim – have they?

any of them.

Not even anything.

I don't think any of the original – not original members because they are original members of the band, the Masters Apprentices, when Jim put it together.

But then the band that became the kind of – which was Doug Ford, Jim, Colin Burgess and Glenn – I think was pretty much the, the hit band version that did, you know, five, 10 men, all those ones.

And they did a cover of a track called How Do You Do, which was overseas performed by the original, by a Dutch duo called Mouth and McNeil.

So we're going to play a few of those songs, but before I get into that, I'm going to play a track by Russell Morris and one by Masters Apprentices.

And these were examples of artists who were really beginning to break in Australia in 1970 and that the radio band impacted their careers quite significantly at the time.

We might look at the Masters Apprentices first.

They, in April of 1970, just before this radio band, they released Turn Up Your Radio, which was deliberately designed to be loud, heavy and offensive to shatter their remaining teeny bopper pop image.

When the band struck in 1970, commercial radio dropped the track entirely and they were probably, it was almost a song meant to be a rebellious rock anthem and to sort of annoy radio stations, I guess, to really challenge their, probably at that time, light pop view of the band.

And that meant in Australia, its chart position stalled at number 23. and yet in New Zealand where there was no such band, it went all the way to number one.

So let's have a listen to these particular tracks right now.

Hailey Reinhart was born in 1990, gained national fame as the third place finalist on season 10 of American Idol before getting her own successful solo career known for her vocals and collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox.

Jim Keys was born in 1946, frontman and lead singer of the Australian garage rock band the Masters Apprentices.

Duffy Power was born in 1941, British blues rock singer and talent during the 1960s blues boom.

Paul Durham was born in 1968, lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and founder of the post-grunge alternative rock band Black Lab, known for their hits like Time Ago and Wash It Away.

Today, my configuration is he would be 80 today.

The late Jim Keys, lead singer of the Masters Apprentices.

Arguably, arguably a band that on the world stage for a moment there could have been anything.

You know, given the timeframe, they were such a good outfit.

How cool is that? With Glenn Shorrock in there as well.

What a band they were.

The Masters Apprentices.

The story.