Young Talent Time
 "Close
your eyes and I'll kiss you . . .". Sing this to Australians of a
certain generation and they will sing the "oo-oo-oo's" back in
rapturous nostalgia.
Each week for 18 years (read that again! EIGHTEEN years!) from April
1971 onwards, the
avuncular Johnny Young brought his sequined show to a close with a gooey
versh of this Beatles classic.
His junior hoofers would sway around him in a feel-good kinda way
while he muttered inane "goodnight Ethel" messages to viewers
old, young and in hospital! These kids knew how to smile, sing and box
step at the same time.
 Like a cabaret kindergarten, Young Talent Time (first airing
in black & white on 23 April 1971) nurtured fledgling dreams and
produced a veritable host of international showbiz successes ; Jamie
Redfern, Debbie Byrne, Sally Boyden, Prince (only joking).
By 1979 it had turned naff and most of the kids were now extremely
irritating little shits, though there was a brief respite in the early
80s courtesy of Tina Arena.
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