Country Artist Interviews with Graham Bell Australia
Rick Carey.. honoured with the Roll of Renown in 1985 in Tamworth..
- Graham Bell Website... www.gbellmedia2.com
- Email....grahambell.coffs@gmail.com would like to hear from you.
Rick and Thel Carey were both born in New South Wales, Australia, Rick a city boy from Sydney, and Thel a fair dinkum farm girl from Glossodia near Windsor. Rick's love of country music grew from the hillbilly radio programmes that in the days of his childhood were firm favourites in the city as well as the country. Of course, Thel's rural upbringing ensured that she too came to love the earthy songs that reflected the daily way of life that she shared with millions of other Australians.
Thel was a self-taught guitarist, and her music eventually brought her to the "Bar-20 hillbilly Shows" at Eden Park and then appearances on the Reg Lindsay and Slim Dusty Shows. It was at the Bar 20 shows that Rick and Thel met. Rick had acquired a good guitar from his prisoner of war father, and during his term with the Royal Australian Air Force Rick had been taught the instrument by a musical friend. Armed thus with their respective musical talents and country and western backgrounds, Rick and Thel began a musical and family partnership from which evolved one of the top three Australian country music travelling shows of the 1960s through to the mid-1980s. They had a very successful 25-year recording history with Regal Zonophone and EMI from 1954, and further successful recordings with Hadley Records in Tamworth from 1978. They were honoured with the Roll of Renown in 1985 in Tamworth. Rick Carey died in July 2017.
Rick and Thel Carey
- Graham Bell Website... www.gbellmedia2.com
- Email....grahambell.coffs@gmail.com would like to hear from you.
Rick and Thel Carey were both born in New South Wales, Australia, Rick a city boy from Sydney, and Thel a fair dinkum farm girl from Glossodia near Windsor. Rick's love of country music grew from the hillbilly radio programmes that in the days of his childhood were firm favourites in the city as well as the country. Of course, Thel's rural upbringing ensured that she too came to love the earthy songs that reflected the daily way of life that she shared with millions of other Australians.
Thel was a self-taught guitarist, and her music eventually brought her to the "Bar-20 hillbilly Shows" at Eden Park and then appearances on the Reg Lindsay and Slim Dusty Shows. It was at the Bar 20 shows that Rick and Thel met. Rick had acquired a good guitar from his prisoner of war father, and during his term with the Royal Australian Air Force Rick had been taught the instrument by a musical friend. Armed thus with their respective musical talents and country and western backgrounds, Rick and Thel began a musical and family partnership from which evolved one of the top three Australian country music travelling shows of the 1960s through to the mid-1980s. They had a very successful 25-year recording history with Regal Zonophone and EMI from 1954, and further successful recordings with Hadley Records in Tamworth from 1978. They were honoured with the Roll of Renown in 1985 in Tamworth. Rick Carey died in July 2017.
Rick and Thel Carey