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country music exports to Nashville. Their brand of
Australian Bush music blended with no-nonsense American Country music
has endeared them to audiences throughout the world. Tom (the elder by
30 minutes) and Ted were born of a French father (Edward) and English
mother (Ada). Their father was a dairy and sugar cane farmer while their
mother had been a nurse. Growing up on the farm, they soon became adept
horsemen and later won many prizes riding broncos. When they were age 9,
their elder brother, George, bought a portable gramophone and some
records and they were immediately turned on to the singing and yodeling
of Canadian Wilf Carter (Montana Slim). They both decided that they
wanted to become cowboy stars. That same brother (who would later die in
an accident) bought them a guitar. When they were age 13, the twins saw
a Hopalong Cassidy movie and they were totally hooked. They left school
and home at age 15 and with one guitar and less than $10 between them,
they headed northwest. They got jobs on Queensland’s biggest cattle
station, Rocky Ponds, where they worked for almost a year. While on a
cattle drove to the Merinda Meat Works, they learned of a rodeo in Bowen
and entered every event without winning, but they also sang to the crowd
and got a very positive response. In the audience was the ringmaster of
Buddy Williams’ Circus and Rodeo, and Tom and Ted were engaged as rough
riders for a tour of Northern Queensland. By the time they were 17, they
were the youngest professional riders in rodeos and began developing
their interest in showmanship that included whip cracking,
rifle-shooting and card tricks. They then decided to go to Brisbane to
see what a big city was like. It was, also, an education for Brisbane, as
the two young boys arrived wearing flycatcher hats and hobnailed boots.
At the time, the Brisbane Exhibition was taking place and Tom and Ted
got to meet the legendary Tex Morton. Morton hired the twins to sing and
ride during the Exhibition week. In 1949, they went to Melbourne to work
again with Buddy Williams as advance agents and entertainers. They
arrived back in Brisbane in 1950 and decided to go to Sydney, which was
starting to boom as an entertainment center. They were signed to the
fledgling Rodeo label. They released five singles on the label, One
Little Letter/The Sunset Yodel, Echo Yodel/Pony Boy, Before the
Dawn/There’s a Bridle Hanging on the Wall, They Cut Down the Old Pine
Tree/Gallop Along and The Sinner’s Prayer/Ting A Ling A Jingle, all of
which did well. As their appeal widened, the LeGardes were billed as
"Australia’s Yodeling Stockmen." During 1951, the twins spent 10 months
studying dramatic art. In 1952, they signed with the prestigious Regal-Zonophone
label and released a string of singles through 1957, including Nobody’s
Darlin’ But Mine, There Stands The Glass, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, In The
Jailhouse Now, Release Me and The Waltz You Saved For Me. They started
to work a lot with disabled children and have helped the Crippled
Children’s Appeal. In 1954, the twins appeared with Hopalong Cassidy
(William Boyd) when he toured Australia. In 1957, they decided to try
their luck in the U.S. and after a period of time in Canada went to
Hollywood, where they worked on Doye O’Dell’s Western Varieties TV shows
and hosted their own TV series on KTLA-TV Los Angeles. By 1958, they
were settled in Nashville and they released Freight Train Yodel on Dot.
In 1960, Joe Allison produced them on their single, Baby Sitter, which
was released on Liberty. The following year, Earl Palmer produced them
on Roll Rock And Roll That Hula Hoop, which was released on Bel Canto
Records. While in Nashville, they appeared on the Grand Ole Opry,
singing their self-penned song, Cooee Call. The LeGardes returned to
Australia in 1963 with the intention of opening the equivalent of the
Opry in Sydney. They acquired an old theater in Paddington, Sydney,
called Wests and began shows there. They brought in Marty Robbins,
Speedy West and Lorne Greene. The twins began recording for Columbia and
cut three albums, Ballads Of The Bushland, Twincerely Yours, and Songs
Of Slim and Dusty as well as a quartet of singles, I’m Moving On, Don’t
Let Me Cross Over (with another Australian star, Reg Lindsay), Faded
Love, and Trouble’s Back In Town. They also began emceeing two Country
music shows, Studio A, which was built around them, and Country Style,
which they took over. By 1965, their business interests had come to an
end and they returned to the U.S. For a while, they were managed by
Colonel Tom Parker and appeared in Las Vegas. They, also, appeared in the
Star Trek series as androids. Over the next few years, the LeGarde Twins
recorded singles for Era (1968), Enity (1968), Dot (1972), American
Heritage (1972) and Edge (1974). In 1975, they recorded True Love with
Gary Paxton producing, which was released on Raindrop Records. In 1978,
this single became a Top 90 Country hit. In the meanwhile, the twins had
recorded for Koala in 1976 and then in 1979, again with Gary Paxton
producing, they had another Top 90 single, I Can Almost Touch The Feelin'
on Four Star. The following year, The LeGardes scraped into the charts
with Daddy’s Making Records In Nashville, which was released on
Invitation. On January 27, 1987, they imprinted their hands in
Tamworth’s Hands of Fame, being recognized as significant contributors
to the history of Australian Country Music. During the 80’s, The LeGarde
Twins became very popular in Britain, appearing at the Wembley Festival
and in 1988, hosting one of the concerts. That year, they made another
basement entry on the country chart with Crocodile Man From Walk-About
Creek on the Bear label. In recent years, the LeGarde Twins have
operated their own LeGarde Twins Country Music Theatre out of Twitty
City in Hendersonville, Tennessee. With the death of Conway Twitty and
the sale of Twitty City, The LeGardes relocated their theater to the
Quality Inn Hall of Fame Hotel close to Nashville’s Music Row. The
LeGarde Twins are currently touring doing Western Festivals.
