composerPaul Grabowsky

(cast on screen)

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Singer Kate CeberanoPianist David AllardiceSaxophonist Ian WallaceBass Player Stephen HadleyDrummer Allan Browne

Music Producer Red SymonsMusic Co-Ordinator Michael Grabowsky

Music

'Darling Come Back To Me'Composer Paul GrabowskyLyrics Philip HarveyPerformed by Kate Ceberano

'Silly Season'Composer Paul GrabowskyLyrics Philip HarveyPerformed by Kate Ceberano

'Tell Me Your Secret'Composer Paul GrabowskyLyrics Paul GrabowskyPerformed by Red Symons

Singer Kate Ceberano is too well-known to dwell on here. The scientologically inclined singer has a wiki listing here, and at time of writing had her eponymous site here, as well as being active on Twitter, Facebook etc, and she has also published an autobiography.

Red Symons, who croons another tune and produced the music, has a wiki here, and in later years ended up on the ABC’s 774 in Melbourne. (See below for more on him).

Composer Paul Grabowsky:

While the juxtaposition of composer Grabowsky and Red Symons and Kate Ceberano might seem odd, Grabowksy had worked with Symons on the score for the flop comedy satire Wills and Burke (another outing by Georgia’s producer Bob

Weis), and he has had a long association with Ceberano, in 2016 doing a tour with her with a Love Songs package.

Grabowsky has a wiki here, and this short biography at the Australian Music Centre here:

Paul Grabowsky is a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and one of Australia's most distinguished artists.

Born in Lae, Papua New Guinea in 1958, Paul Grabowsky was raised in Melbourne where he attended Wesley College. During the late 1970s he became prominent in the music scene in Melbourne, working in various jazz, theater and cabaret projects.

He lived and worked in Europe and the US in 1980-85, during which time he performed with many jazz luminaries, including Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Johnny Griffin. He returned to Australia in 1986 and established a reputation as one of Australia's leading jazz musicians with bands such as his own trio and sextet, the Wizards of Oz, and as musical director for singer Vince Jones. He was musical director of Tonight Live with Steve Vizard from 1990-1992.

A lot of Paul Grabowsky's time is spent composing and arranging for various projects. He has been commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, the Queensland Music Festival, the Australian National Academy of Music, and by various other organisations. His work for the concert stage includes orchestral and chamber music, a song cycle and works for the Australian Art Orchestra. He has written three major stage works, and is currently working on a fourth one. In his large-scale works, Grabowsky integrates influences from many different kinds of music and musical cultures.

Grabowsky has written the scores for over twenty feature films in Australia, the UK and

US, including The Eye of the Storm and Last Orders (Fred Schepisi), Innocence (Paul Cox), and Shiner (John Irvin). Among the many other filmmakers he has worked with are Gillian Armstrong, Nadia Tass and Clara Law. His television credits include the series Phoenix and Janus and the Emmy-winningEmpire Falls. His works for the theatre include two operas and various multimedia works.

He is the founder and artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra, with which he tours both nationally and internationally. Recent AAO projects have concentrated on collaborations with traditional and contemporary indigenous performers, something which Paul passionately advocates.

Grabowsky has his own website here. There is an extensive list of works as a film composer here.

(Below: Paul Grabowsky)

Red Symons, music producer for the film:

Red Symons has a wiki here. He has subsequently had a much more electric career than Grabowsky after their collaborations, as shown by the short CV his agent provides here:

A science graduate in computer programming and pure maths, Red Symons has established himself in the entertainment industry as musician, author, stage & screen performer, record producer, composer, columnist and, most recently, breakfast announcer on ABC radio 774, Melbourne.

Red's theatrical flair and humour was apparent from his early days as guitarist with the band "Skyhooks" who swept onto the Australian music charts with their "Living in the 70's" anthem, and many hits including "Ego is not a dirty word", "Women in Uniform',

"Blue Jeans" and "All My Friends are Getting Married".

His popularity as a media personality, however, was evidenced during his years with the long-running national television program, "Hey Hey It's Saturday". The Hey Hey team enjoyed music mixed with spontaneous banter and fun'n'games. Paradoxically, Red became one of the shows most endearing performers despite being the heartless and sarcastic judge in the weekly "Red Faces" segment.

There can be few performers who have appeared on Countdown with a number one record, Neighbours in its first week ever, escaped from theBig Brother house, lost a quarter of a million dollars on Who wants to be a Millionaire, been measured as Australia's smartest celebrity ( yes, it's an oxymoron) on The National IQ Test and written music for Blue Heelers, whilst contributing a regular column to The Age newspaper. In between all this he managed to fit in a number of stage shows that inevitably involved some sort of cross-dressing. Red also wrote the music for Australia 's first condom commercial.

Popular on the corporate and arts speaking circuit, a regular on ABC TV's Einstein Factor, a judge on 7 Network's Australia's Got Talent, Red Symons can be heard Monday to Friday, 5.30am-7.45am on ABC radio 774. (ABC radio Melbourne, the breakfast shift was current as of March 2015).

(Below: Red Symons, in showbiz Skyhooks mode 1975, posing with dummy in 1975, working the red faces gong, and in more posed later official mode).