A Patron for AHDA (Vic) Inc –
Welcome to Mike Brady
For some years, the AHDA (Vic) Inc has been hopeful of attracting a high profile person who would act as Patron for the organisation – a reputable high profile person who would be willing to lend his or her name in order to add to the credibility and integrity of the Association as a charitable organisation.
Earlier this year the Committee of Management approached Mr Mike Brady. We are delighted to announce that Mike has agreed to act as Patron for the organisation and we are most grateful to him for his interest in HD and support of the Association.
Many of you will be familiar with Mike and his work, but here is some brief background information about our Patron.
“ Mike Brady was born in England and moved with his family to Australia when he was 11 years old. His recording career began in the mid 60's with the formation of MPD Ltd (Mike, Pete and Danny). MPD Ltd went on to become one of Australia's most successful pop groups of the late 60's with hits such as “Little Boy Sad”. The group toured countries overseas, including England , and Mike toured extensively throughout Vietnam during the war. When MPD Ltd disbanded, he continued to record the occasional solo single, one such single being the hit “Sympathy” which reached the National Top 10.
However, the majority of his time was spent building a career as producer and writer of advertising jingles for television and radio. One such piece of jingle song writing brought Mike back into the record industry limelight. He was asked to record a promotional song for Channel 7's football programme. The song being “Up There Cazaly” went on to become the biggest selling local single of its time, with sales in excess of 250,000 and has become the Unofficial Anthem of all Australian Rules Football Fans.
His song “One day in September” has become part of the football language. Mike has since written and recorded club songs for many of the Football Clubs in the Australian Football League. He also co-wrote and produced Greg Champion's huge hit “That's What I Like About Football”.
But there is more to Mike than “Up There Cazaly” and football songs.
Over the years he has been responsible for some of Australia 's most catchy advertising jingles and his expertise has been at the hub of innumerable successful recordings for many years. During the 70's he formed his own record label and record production company, Full Moon Records and publishing company Remix Publishing. Remix Publishing represents many other Australian Songwriters.
Two hugely successful singles released by Full Moon were Mark Jackson's “I'm An Individual” and Joe Dolce's “Shaddup You Face” which broke the record previously held by Mike's “Up There Cazaly” as the biggest selling single in Australian History. “Shaddup You Face” has now sold four million units worldwide. Mike and his company have produced albums for artists such as Tina Arena, Colleen Hewett, Mark Gillespie and Mike Rudd and Bill Putt. Many artists including John Farnham and Tina Arena have recorded Mike's songs.
Over recent years Mike has continued to write music for films and television projects, most recently completing a children's TV series for Channel 7 “The Adventures of Chuck Finn”, together with writing songs for various sporting events – “Courage in their Eyes” and “Rise to the Moment”, the Paralympic official team song for the 2000 Games.
Another aspect of Mike is his solo performances and motivational speaking, which he combines with his work as front man of the Mike Brady Band. His band is one of the hottest corporate acts in Australia , having also performed overseas.
Mike can now also be heard on Saturday night on 1278 3AW 6pm to midnight hosting his own radio program “Saturday with Mike Brady” (summer months).
Acknowledgement:
http://www.australiaday.vic.gov.au/events_ambassadors_details.asp?view=130
