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At the 2020 Golden Guitars, Allan Caswell won his 8th Golden Guitar (with Manfred Vijars for Bush Ballad of the Year). His 8th Golden Guitar came 40 years after his first, in 1980. He has been a Golden Guitar finalist now a total of 44 times!At the 2018 Tamworth Country Music Festival Allan Caswell was inducted into the prestigious Galaxy Of Stars. It was recognition for the huge contribution he has made to Australian Country Music as a songwriter, performer, record producer and author. To see his plaque alongside the Dustys, Casser Dalys and Kernaghans was a sobering experience “I was the only one I hadn’t heard of”
Caswell is Australia’s most recorded songwriters with well over 750 of his songs being released around the world by artists of the calibre of Cilla Black, Patti Page, The Irish Rovers, The Living End, Slim Dusty, Barry Humphries, Ricki May, James Blundell, Jasmine Rae, McAlister Kemp, Graeme Connors, The Wolfe Brothers, Anne Kirkpatrick, Chad Morgan, Lynne Hamilton, The Delltones, Beccy Cole, The Wolfe Brothers, Amber Lawrence, Aleyce Simmonds, Jade Hurley and Ella Hooper among dozens of others.
Take a listen to some Allan Caswell below:
Caswell has also built a big reputation as a writer of children’s songs as, among other projects, the co-writer and co-producer of the hugely successful Don Spencer albums.
In 1979 Caswell wrote the theme for the Australian television series “Prisoner” (Cell Block H in England) … “On The Inside” was a number 1 hit in Australia and New Zealand in 1979 and later reached number 3 in the UK and the Patti Page version made the country charts in the USA. After the success of “On The Inside” he went fulltime and has made a living writing and performing ever since. Recently rising star Seleen McAlister took the song to Number 1 on the Australian Country charts.
A glittering career in Country Music in Australia has netted Caswell 8 Golden Guitars (Country Music Awards Of Australia) from 44 finalist nominations … he has also been awarded 11 songwriting Awards from the Tamworth Songwriters Association, including The Songmaker Award … a virtual Hall Of Fame for country songwriters. He has won 9 Awards at the Independent Country Music Awards (Southern Stars) including Album Of The Year for 3 of his albums. In the last 6 years there has been hardly a week when there hasn’t been at least one song (often 2 or 3) on the Australian Country charts. He is the go to cowriter for many of Australia’s top country artists.
Bobby has been a professional entertainer for over 30 years, based in Melbourne and appearing both nationally and internationally in a range of genres from solo performances to fronting twenty-piece big bands.
Bobby has headlined many corporate and private functions. Some of the highlights have been performing at the weddings of Hugh Jackman, Eddie MacGuire and Annie Peacock as well as significant birthday parties for Sam Newman, Jimmy Barnes and Jill Farnham.
In Australia, Bobby has performed at the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, the AFL Grand Final and the Australian Tennis Open. He is also the voice of the team song of Melbourne Storm (NRL).
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George Lane St Kilda, 1 George Ln, St Kilda,Melbourne,VIC,Australia
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