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Smoky Dawson
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Australian country music entertainer (1913-2008)
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Vinony files it under 1913 births, 2008 deaths and 20th-century Australian guitarists.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Poems and Paintings
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Film & TV
Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Smokey Dawson (19 March 1913 - 13 February 2008), born as Herbert Henry Brown, was an Australian singer-songwriter and musician, who performed western and folk music with a tinge of country, he was a radio and television presenter, entertainer, and icon. He was widely touted as Australia's first singing cowboy complete with acoustic steel string guitar and yodel.
Known for
- Bordertown — Old Barber1995
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1913-03-19
- Active to
- 2008-02-13
Discography
- Smoky Dawson With The Howie Brothers
- Ya Darn Right It’s Country
- Goodtime Radio
- I’m a Happy‐Go‐Lucky Cowhand / Will I Meet Old Faithful Up Yonder1941
- The Old Log Cabin on the Mountain Trail / The Sound Effects Cowboy1941
- Cob the Corn / Never Been to Gundagai1942
- Ridin’ Down the Dream Trail / Yearning for “Over Range”1945
- Cowboys Round-Up Song / You Left Me and Now I Feel Blue1945
- Just a Sprig of Golden Wattle / Where the Waterfall Leaps in the Gully1945
- New Wabash Cannon Ball / Hills of the Golden West1952
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 501
- Total plays
- 1,812
Tags
b. Herbert Henry Dawson, 19 March 1913, Collingwood, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, d. 13 February 2008, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dawson’s family relocated to Warrnambool when he was a baby and his mother died when he was five years old. A pioneer of Australian country music, his father was a music hall baritone, who had studied to be a chemist and then a doctor, before becoming an invalid as a result of injuries received at Gallipoli. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Smoky+Da
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Dawson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Collingwood
- Place of death
- Sydney
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- guitar
Show 5 more facts
- date of death
- 2008-02-13
- date of birth
- 1913-03-19
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- Commons category
- Smoky Dawson
- birth name
- Herbert Henry Brown
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