Bobby Limb
| Bobby Limb | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Robert Limb 10 November 1924 Adelaide, South Australia |
| Died | 11 September 1999 (aged 74) Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Entertainer radio personality television personality musician presenter band leader comedian |
| Spouse(s) | Dawn Lake |
Robert "Bobby" Limb AO OBE (10 November 1924 – 11 September 1999) was an Australian-born entertainment pioneer, a musician and legend of radio, television and theatre of the 1960s and 1970s with a lasting popular appeal.
Bobby Limb's was born in Adelaide, South Australia and entered a show business career beginning in 1941, at the age of 17, when he became a saxophone player with various dance bands around his home city of Adelaide. His bright personality soon made him a bandleader and comedian. By 1952, Bobby was already one of Australia's leading entertainers, with a fan-club on radio station 2UW, which boasted 35,000 teenage members.
He appeared in the satirical radio program The Idiot Weekly in 1958 and 1959, alongside such players as Spike Milligan, Ray Barrett and John Bluthal and John Ewart but was better known for his own radio, and later TV shows.
His most successful television shows were The Mobil Limb Show, Australia's first national television show, and Bobby Limb's The Sound of Music, which ran for nine years 1963–1972, being the country's top-rated show for most of that time. Limb switched with his program from TCN Channel 9 to TEN10 in exactly the same timeslot on Friday nights. Channel 9 then picked up the younger Barry Crocker from TEN10 where he'd been hosting a similar program called "Say it with Music", and placed this into almost exactly the same timeslot with the same "Sound of Music" name on Friday nights. Crocker's initial success waned, but both versions were axed within a few years as the format had had its run.
Bobby Limb married fellow entertainer Dawn Lake in 1953, and often appeared with her. As a couple, they became iconic within the Australian entertainment industry. So popular was their appeal in their native land that Bert Newton even called them "Australia's Lucille and Desi".
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