Shirley abicair biography
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Shirley Abicair
Australian singer, actress, author
Shirley Abicair (born 26 October ) is an Australian-born singer, musician, television personality, actress and author. In the s and 60s, she was probably best known as an exponent of the zither.
Early life
[edit]Shirley Abicair was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Some sources show her year of birth as , but a contemporary account shows she was 23 or 24 on arrival in the UK and, as she had completed tertiary studies in Australia, the earlier date seems more likely. She was the only daughter of a Wing Commander in the RAAF.
Education
[edit]Abicair resided in Adelaide prior to pursuing studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and/or Sydney University (as with her year of birth, accounts differ), where she studied philosophy, languages and the arts.[1] She sang in undergraduate revues.[2]
Career
[edit]While studying in Sydney, Abicair began singing at parties and private functions to
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The Shirley Abicair Show
Australian television series
The Shirley Abicair Show is an Australian television variety series which aired in
The series was produced with the intention of running for nine episodes. Two of the episodes were produced and aired live in Melbourne by station GTV-9, the other seven were produced in Sydney by station ATN[1] In Melbourne it occupied the time-slot previously held by The Astor Show.
Apart from Abicair, other performers who made appearances during the run of the series included singer Jimmy Parkinson,[2] singer Bill McCormack,[3] singer Toni Lamond, singer Ted Hamilton, harmonica group The Three Winds, vocal group The Moontones, violinist Maurice Stead,[4] Arthur Duncan,[5] singer Bill French, The Tunetwisters,[6] Graeme Bell and Bill Newman[7]
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An excerpt from a TV Annual of
SHIRLEY WRITES STRAIGHT FROM HER HEART
Viewers have seen a change come over Shirley Abicair in her TV song programme during the past year. Miss Abicair explains
"How do you feel? Happy?"
"Smooth as a bowl of cream!"
"To quote a vaudeville act inom know: &#;When you&#;re overworked and underweight and it doesn&#;t hurt&#;you&#;re doin&#; fine!&#;"
A taxi skittered towards us through the rain, but we walked up Jermyn Street: inom wanted to walk. We had been to the premiere of Smiley. At the celebration afterwards, everybody felt too good for post-mortems or "nice" compliments. But for a long time inom had a mental picture of Smiley&#;s author, Moore Raymond, red-faced and perspiring, concealing his embarrassment bygd taking photographs of everybody, and an excited Anthony Kimmins distributing warm handshakes at the door.
Smiley was the first premiere inom ever went to. inom didn&#;t even go to the premiere of my own spelfilm, b