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Bonnie’s Laurie Allen Tribute Laurie In The 50’s

The Three Lories The Three Lories opening of Dick Cranbourns 1^st Annual Rock N Roll Hillbilly Roundup in Ferntree Gully March 1959 Laurie Allen..Electric Guitar Spanish Steel Rick…Vocalist Johnny McGaw..Drums

The Three Lories Rehearsal for The Savoy Theatre Melbourne March 29 1959 Also Appeared on this show with Johnny McGaw in drums ans guitar act. Other members listed as J Braggs, & J Kinder.

Blind Institute Variety Club 1959

Laurie with Les Darcy 1957

Laurie With Malcolm Arthur

Laurie appeared with Malcom Arthur in an Elvis competition at The Metro Melbourne in 1958 Malcolm Arthur 1^st Laurie Allen 3rd

Laurie Allen and The Blue Jays

Broken Hill sounded an usual name for a town when American banjoist-songwriter Freddie Morgan heard it for the first time, when appearing on Dick Cranbourne’s “Hillbilly Time” for 3DB. Freddie who wrote “Hey Mr Banjo” and “Sayonara” suggested to guitar-vocalist Lawrie Allen of “Hillbilly Time” that the town’s name would sound good in a song title, Lawrie took his advice and this week had his song “I Left A Broken Heart In Broken Hill” released on record and the first to autograph it- cigar smoking songwriter Freddie Morgan.