Trivia

Currently resides in the Sydney Suburb of Galston, NSW, Australia. (May 2006)

Does a Country show for a Sydney Radio Station.

Country and pop singer of Australian parentage. Had three successive number 1 hits in the UK in the early sixties.

He had his only Top 10 US hit in the summer of 1962 with his Pop Country rendition of "I Remember You" written by Johnny Mercer for The Fleet's In (1942).

Inducted into the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Hall of Fame in 2007.

Ifield was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the ARIA Music Awards of 2007.

He toured the North Island of New Zealand in early 1959 where his single, "Guardian Angel", reached No. 1 on local radio charts.

At the age of 13, he performed his version of Bill Showmet's "Did You See My Daddy Over There?" and appeared on local radio station 2GB's talent quest, Amateur Hour. This track was issued as his first single, in 1953, by Regal Zonophone Records.

By November 1953, he appeared regularly on Brisbane radio station 4BK's Youth Parade, playing guitar and singing, where, "All the artists in this programme are under 21 years of age.".

His parents had travelled to England in 1936, where his father was an inventor and engineer who created the Ifield fuel pump, used in jet aircraft, for Lucas Industries.

He was given a guitar in 1949 by his grandmother and was self-taught; he also taught himself to yodel, by imitating country stars, including Hank Snow.

In 1957, he recorded the track "Whiplash", which was used as the theme song for the British/Australian TV series of the same title from September 1960 to mid-1961.

In 1956, he hosted Campfire Favourites on local TV station TCN-9, which "was the first weekly 'Western' programme by a local artist on Australian television.".

In 1986, Ifield contracted pneumonia and required surgery to remove part of a lung. As a result, his vocal cords were damaged, which meant he could not sing or yodel for years until they recovered.

The Ifield family returned to Australia in January 1948 aboard the liner RMS Orion. They lived near Dural, 50 km (31 mi) north-west of Sydney. It was a rural district and he listened to hillbilly music (later called country music) while milking the family's cow.