- Had a 64 year recording career.
- Australian country music legend.
- Survived by his 101 year old wife, Dot.
- Diagnosed with a weak heart when he collapsed after finishing 27th in a field of 400 in the 1932 Warrnambool to Melbourne bike race. (He lived a further 76 years!).
- He was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1983 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to country music.
- Not long prior to his death, he and wife Dot hosted a decade plus syndicated community radio show on the lower North Shore in Sydney.
- He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1999 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to country music.
- He was cremated and his ashes combined with those of Dot Dawson's and they were scattered at the Mount Oxley Lookout, overlooking Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia.
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