The records were Spotlights' highest sellers. In May 1973, he released the album Music Makes My Day, featuring an updated version of American rockabilly singer Robin Luke's "Susie Darlin' on the Festival Records label. The recording featured Olivia Newton-John and Pat Carroll on backup vocals and enjoyed chart success, peaking at number 7. He sang the original recording of the theme song for the 1977 Reg Grundy soap opera, The Restless Years (later a hit for Renee Geyer), and also the original theme to the long-running soap opera, Neighbours, another Reg Grundy production. His version was used from 1985 to 1992, and it was also played during the series final episode, which aired in July 2022. Crocker wrote and recorded an unofficial theme song for the Australian Rules Geelong Football Club, entitled Come on the Cats. Discography Charting albums Charting singles Awards Mo Awards The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Barry Crocker won 2 awards in that time and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2013. (wins only) |- | 1976 | Barry Crocker | Entertainer of the Year | |- | 1981 | Barry Crocker | Entertainer of the Year | |- | 2013 | Barry Crocker | Hall of Fame | |- In popular culture During the 1980s, the rhyming slang expression "Barry Crocker", or simply "Barry" or "Baz", emerged in Australian English to mean a "shocker", as in "very poor". The most recent notable public use of the expression was on the front page of the Sydney newspaper [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]] on 17 April 2014 when Barry O'Farrell the Premier of New South Wales, was forced to resign, allegedly for accepting a gift of an expensive bottle of wine without declaring it, and then later denying in court that he had even received the gift. The headline, consisting of almost half the front page, read "A Barry Crocker". In February 2022, news of the cancellation of Neighbours'' in the British press prompted fans of the TV show to download the theme song. It reached No. 1 on UK iTunes and at No. 11 on the UK Singles Sales Chart sales and downloads chart ending 17 February 2022. References External links Official website 1935 births Australian autobiographers Australian male