Sunnyside Up was one of the longest running, and most popular, variety shows on Australian television. I (Bruce Clarke) was associated with the show, from it’s 1953 “Happy Gang” radio beginnings, as guitarist-arranger-and assistant musical director and from 1957 to 1964 – the first seven years of its HSV7 life.

Now in 2006 I am unfortunately, the only surviving member of that original orchestra; and so the only means of documenting the pre-history of producer Alf Spargo’s television success story.