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Speaker 1: New autobiography about to hit the shelves.

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Speaker 2: Actually it has hit the shelves.

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Speaker 1: It's called Barry Crocker, The Last of the Entertainers. It's

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Speaker 1: out now and Barry is joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Hello Barry Barry.

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Speaker 4: Hey guys, you guys sound like you're a hip hop group.

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Speaker 2: Have you releast anything lately?

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Speaker 3: Mate? You love our flow? Clar lay sound we sound

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Speaker 3: like that?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Quite straight, Barry, I will have you knowne Barry? You

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Speaker 1: really are the last of the entertainers of that sort.

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Speaker 4: Of well time? Yeah, well in that sense. So, yeah,

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Speaker 4: because I was going back to those days, those healthier

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Speaker 4: days of television. Yes, you know, the sixties, seventies, eighties

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Speaker 4: into the nineties.

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Speaker 2: You know, I had a band of mates, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, people like Graham Kennedy and Stuart wag Staff as

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Speaker 4: Ernie c. There's Jimmy Hannon, Yeah, DoD Lane. But they

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Speaker 4: all suddenly left me. I had no one to chap

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Speaker 4: to tell lies to. And you know, so I'm left

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Speaker 4: the last man standing with no one to talk to.

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Speaker 5: Well, you talked to us, man. We mentioned Stuart Way

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Speaker 5: except we and Wagers wasn't the only one. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: he so loved in Perth when you come over for

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Speaker 5: telethone like yourself.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, its like the telethons. Just the telethons are

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Speaker 4: wonderful and great fun. Yes, you know you meet so

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Speaker 4: many people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was seventy million last year.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 4: Got to go? You got to keep going up? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: go down?

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Speaker 3: Every year we say go further, does it does? Yes?

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Speaker 1: So very the decision gets made, you decide to put

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Speaker 1: together an autobiography. And then do you think, oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: this is harder than I thought it would be. You've

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Speaker 1: got to cast your mind back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well do you do?

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Speaker 4: And thank god I gave up drinking many many years ago,

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Speaker 4: so my brain was I did function and go back

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Speaker 4: to those wonderful times. Yeah, and sometimes dodgy times. I

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Speaker 4: used to love coming to Perth and I used to

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Speaker 4: be at.

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Speaker 2: The lat tender for those out there, Yes, and that was.

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Speaker 4: And I used to hang out with my mate, you know,

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Speaker 4: I did old the oldest disc jockey I guess in

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Speaker 4: the world today.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, I had a wonderful time every time i'd come.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Oh, you know, I'm getting tired just thinking about all

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Speaker 4: the things that we did, and.

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Speaker 3: It was dinner and show. I mean, yes, yes, I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like you might have been there with.

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Speaker 3: Jackie Love at some state Jackie Leggs.

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Speaker 4: Love, Yeah, yeah yeah, Jackie Loved and Marsha Hines.

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Speaker 2: We we did some specials over there.

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Speaker 4: We opened up some big cabarets over there, and we

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Speaker 4: opened up some some of the the venues down where

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Speaker 4: the America's Cup was held.

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Speaker 2: You know, so halcyon times, wonderful for fun.

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Speaker 1: We're celebrating the fortieth anniversary of that in.

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Speaker 2: Just over a week.

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Speaker 3: Barry, which is lavable.

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Speaker 1: I know, what is the most random place you've ever

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Speaker 1: performed in.

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Speaker 2: The most random place? Almost got?

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Speaker 4: I could have performed everywhere in my life.

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Speaker 2: I think, I don't.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm a name that someone where someone would remember. Yeah, Broom,

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Speaker 4: I've been up to Broom, I've been across to where

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Speaker 4: is it that all the goal was discovered? Calgooley, Calgooley. Yes,

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Speaker 4: there are places that you sort of visit for a

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Speaker 4: couple of days. You see all the sites, and you

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Speaker 4: do your show and then you get out of there.

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Speaker 4: But you know, there have been some obscure times when

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Speaker 4: you've you've worked you know, ten or twelve people.

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Speaker 3: Yes, of course must go on.

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Speaker 4: But they've booked the go on and they've booked you,

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Speaker 4: and so you know, but of yourn on.

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Speaker 2: Your my my best mate over there in Perth.

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Speaker 4: Every time we dip together, we'd have a ball, you know.

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Speaker 4: And so my memories that floating around in my head

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Speaker 4: at the moment, thinking of all the good times and

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Speaker 4: not the places where I probably died a death.

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Speaker 3: We both were talking about your.

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Speaker 4: Arry.

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Speaker 1: Next week, Neighbors, the show gets its resurrection. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: this is in the in the in the autobiography. Do

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Speaker 1: people still stop you, basically stop you on the street

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Speaker 1: and just start singing the theme song at you?

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Speaker 4: Not really, no, no, they have they have other things

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Speaker 4: they say to me.

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Speaker 2: That was that was a one off thing. But the

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Speaker 2: nice thing that people say saying he was the best

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Speaker 2: it was. I love that.

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Speaker 4: But I was lucky because you know, when I first

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Speaker 4: started with the show and it went to such high

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Speaker 4: heights for the first seven years, I was paying paid

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Speaker 4: a royalty terrific so that then I think grunt, the

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Speaker 4: grunt Reg Grundy sold up and the new owners said, well, why.

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Speaker 2: Are we paying why are we paying Crocker all this money.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a striven. So we'll get it.

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Speaker 4: We'll get a session seer in for fifty bucks and

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Speaker 4: you know we don't have to pay him anymore. For

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Speaker 4: the first seven years, Neighbors was.

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Speaker 2: A very very very good earner for me.

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Speaker 5: Well, the comeback, Yeah, the comeback from Neighbors is so

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Speaker 5: be it Channel ten. They've moved Bold and the Beautiful

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Speaker 5: to anew Times and that'll throw a few pickle but

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Speaker 5: you will now get Bold and the Beautiful before the news,

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Speaker 5: of course, with Neighbors stuck in the middle. But Barry,

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Speaker 5: what about I mean, you've tooured overseas so many times

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Speaker 5: when they called Mumbai Bombay all those years ago, even

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Speaker 5: places like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was there. I was in Bombay, Bombay, and

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Speaker 2: you know I was. Your eyes are open when you go.

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Speaker 4: To those sort of seas, you know, back in the

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Speaker 4: sixties and everything. That certainly opened my eyes and I

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Speaker 4: realized just how good we have it here in Australia,

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Speaker 4: because you know, you're swamp by and you and you

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Speaker 4: if you go out into the streets in those days anyway,

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Speaker 4: you were followed by beggars.

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Speaker 2: You know, you'd finish up well if you wanted to.

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Speaker 4: Go somewhere, you'd be followed by ten or twelve people,

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Speaker 4: you know, begging for money, and you'd have to go

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Speaker 4: back to the hotel and hide. It was like being

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Speaker 4: a superstar, not being a superstar, you know. Anyway, there

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Speaker 4: are lots of memories. We've worked in Israel, of course,

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Speaker 4: and the great times of in America of course, working

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Speaker 4: in Las Vegas and mixing shoulders with all of the

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Speaker 4: greats that I never thought that i'd ever meet.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, well, I some times.

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Speaker 1: I really look forward to reading these stories of Barry

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Speaker 1: Crocker in Vegas and where the things do stay in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: The book is out now. It's called Barry Croc The

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Speaker 1: Last of the Entertainers. Lovely to talk to you, Barry, good.

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Speaker 3: On your berry.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, neighbors. I didn't even have to know this.

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Speaker 3: May you be top of the best seller list by

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Speaker 3: your birthday. And I've ever made all the best number

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Speaker 3: one last year, Bye bye bye, Mary Crocker