Bobby Limb's Conversion 1983

Bobby Limb's show business career began in 1941, at the age of 17, when he became a saxophone player with various dance bands around 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, 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.
He 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 there appeal in there native land that Bert Newton, even called them Australians Lucille and Desi.
He promoted and supported young musicians, such as the group Human Nature.
He supported Diabetes Australia, and founded the Bobby Limb Foundation to help sufferers of diabetes.
On 11 September 1999, Bobby Limb died of cancer, a condition he had previously suffered and apparently beaten. At Limb's funeral, the former Whitlam government minister Doug McClelland said that Bobby Limb was to the Australian entertainment industry what Sir Donald Bradman was to cricket, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was to aviation, Dame Joan Sutherland was to opera, and Dr Victor Chang was to surgery.

Bobby Limb's popularity was based on a solid 'middle-of-the-road' musical format, knock-about (never 'way-out') comedy, and a 'something for the whole family' wholesomeness. In the late 1950s, Limb took up the torch of supplying middle-Australia's tastes in entertainment from the dead hand of Jack Davey, but Limb's star began to fade in the 1970s when the TV audience shifted its tastes away from family 'variety' shows towards wall-to-wall pop-music, home-grown soap-opera like 'A Country Practice' and harder-edged, satirical comedy like 'The Aunty Jack Show'.
Bobby Limb remained a hit with Australia's 'pensioner set', but his later appearances were almost entirely off-screen, held at various live venues around the nation,like clubs and theatres, often in connection with charity fund-raising.
In 1983, following many professional and personal problems, Bobby Limb became a born-again Christian.