(Cast)Ricky May as Jackie ColeArmando Hurley as Billy JamesElizabeth Lord as Mandy

Club Musicians Greg HensonJim KeilyPhil LawsonDavid McMaster

Club Singer Nic Gazzana

Musical Director &Original Music Les GockClassical Music Janaček, Dvořak,

Smetana, Handel

Buttons and BowsEvans/Livingstone • Chappell and Co Aust.

Dedicated To the One I LoveBass/Pauling • MCA Music Aust.

Hold On I'm CominHayes/Porter • Warner Bros. Music

How Can I Be SureBrigati/Cavaliere • Albert J. & Son

I Wonder What She's Doing TonightBoyce/Hart • Screens Gems Music

Let the Good Times RollLee • Boosey and Hawkes Aust. & CBS Songs Australia

Roll Over BeethovenBerry • Jewel Music Aust.

This Guy's In Love With YouBacharach/David • Jonathan Music Aust.

UndecidedRobin/Shavers • MCA Music Aust.

Up Up and AwayWebb • CBS Songs Australia

You Really Got MeDavies • Leosong Copyright Serv.

House of the Rising SunPublic Domain

Janaček - String Quartet No 1. Kreutzer SonataSupraphon International/Nippon Columbia

Smetana - The Bartered BrideThe Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & the Czech Philharmonic ChorusKarel Sabina • Supraphon International

Handel - Water Music La Grande Ecurie and La Chambre du RoyJean-Claude Malgoire • CBS Masterworks

Dvořak - Cello Works,Concerto No 1. in A Major for Cello and Orchestra1st Movement 'Andante - Allegro assai'RCA/Ariola International

Janaček - Glogolitische Messe IntradaRCA/Ariola International

Janaček - SinfoniettaVienna Philharmonic • Mackerras • Polygram Records

The film is notable for featuring a couple of genuine club performers. Ricky May was of Māori descent and worked the club circuit in Australia and New Zealand. He has a wiki here, and he can be found in many spots on the intertubes - including a slimmed down performance on the Don Lane Show on YouTube here doing Downtown and a patter.Armando Hurley (the film's spelling) also adds to the credibility. Hurley (who spells his first name Armondo) was for many years a presence on the musical and stage scene in Australia and elsewhere. He had his own website, though when last checked it could only be found on the Wayback Machine here.Elizabeth Lord, who plays the club “soubrette”, unfairly introduced by Crystal as having a “rotten voice but Benny likes her tits”, was in reality a singer, songwriter and performer perhaps best known for being in the pop band Wa Wa Nee. She can be seen performing on YouTube here, Wa Wa Nee has a wiki here, and there is a brief CV here, with this excerpt taking her career to a time past when she appeared in the movie:Elizabeth Lord has been hailed by audiences and the music industry as possessing one of the finest voices in Australia. A dazzling achiever on stage and in the studio, her passion and talent have spanned all musical genres and arenas, and moved music fans for more than fifteen years. Elizabeth first came to national attention in 1981 when she was cast as the understudy in the title role in the Australian production of EVITA, the world's youngest singer/actress ever selected for this demanding role. After continuing to tread the boards in Australia and overseas in other major musicals including BARNUM and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, as well as taking out the EMI RECORDING PRIZE in the Grand Final of the Australian Singing Competition at the

Sydney Opera House, Elizabeth made her first daring musical U-turn.In the mid-eighties, as a member of WA WA NEE, she received her first Gold Record for their #1 single Stimulation. By the time she left the band, she was in demand as a solo performer, and her career took another dramatic turn, this time into the world of jazz. She performed throughout Australia and overseas, for P&O and CUNARD cruise lines, on Ray Martin's Midday Show, and in corporate events and concerts.In 1991, Elizabeth left Sydney and settled on the North Coast of NSW, where she produced and recorded her first CD, LOVE IS…, a collection of jazz standards and a few of her stage musical showstoppers that let her voice soar to its full, inimitable heights. World renowned trumpet player on the session John Hoffman was so impressed with Elizabeth’s vocal ability that he booked her for featured vocalist with the revised Tommy Dorsey Big Band as they performed for the Prime Ministers Olympic Fundraising Dinner.1994 marked her leap into country music with her self-produced SWEET DREAMS show, a tribute to Patsy Cline that brought NSW audiences to their feet in SRO shows. She also won the North Coast Dolphin Music Industry Award for Best Ballad for Find the Way, securing her position as the pre-eminent singer in a region flooded with talent.In 1995 she was featured in the ABC-TV documentary Doesn't Everybody Want a Golden Guitar?

It's also worth noting that Nic Gazzana (briefly spotted in Mad Max as Starbuck and as a pirate in The Pirate Movie and as a Turkish bandit in Hostage) turns up as the club singer and delivers a creditable performance of the traditional blues number, House of the Rising Sun.(Below: Ricky May, Armando Hurley, Elizabeth Lord and Nick Gazzana as the club singer, and the musos in the club band in the film.)

Music Director and Composer Les Gock:

Les Gock is perhaps best known for being a part of the Australian band Hush, but he diversified later in his career. A short bio online here provided this short summary of his work up to 2003:

Les Gock is a highly successful Australian musician, writer and co-producer, most well-known for being part of the Australian band Hush.

Les Gock studied at the Sydney Technical High School. He joined the Australian band Hush in 1972 as the guitarist, wrter and co-producer. During his stint with Hush, he received 12 gold records. After Hush, Gock worked as a music and sound design director for film and television soundtracks. He founded Song Zu, a music and sound design company, but sold the business in 2001.

At present, he is working with his new business, Les Gock Sound Thinking, which specialises in audio branding, working for leading brands such as Qantas, KFC, TEN and Virgin.

He has been Chairman of the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) and is currently Chairman of the Commercial Music Producers Association (CMPA). As part of is work in music and sound design, he has also earned a Gold Clios, Facks Awards, and New York International Advertising Festival Awards.

Gock’s Sound Thinking site here contained this even shorter summary

In the early 70’s, Les took leave from the despatch department of a major ad agency to become a rock star.

As lead guitarist with HUSH he went on to earn 12 gold records in just 5 wild years. After the band broke up, Les set up the business and offered his musical skills to the ad industry with phenomenal success.

The company grew to become Song Zu, a music and sound design mecca in Sydney and Singapore, that attracted some of the cream of Australasia’s composers and sound engineers.

In 2003 Les sold Song Zu to develop an exciting new direction. Today, Sound Thinking is Australia’s leading audio branding consultancy and plays an integral and vital part in the communication and management of leading Australian brands.

Gock has a relatively short wiki here, with some useful links, while Hush has a wiki here.

Gock featured in a story in The Australian, 7th October 2013 regarding network news themes and perhaps Gock’s best known, if not recognised work, for the Ten network:

You hear this music almost every day and whenever you do it gets your attention.You could easily hum it now if asked -- but chances are you have never thought to wonder what it's called or who wrote it.Television news themes are integral to making a statement of authority for a network as well as readying viewers for what is to come, but part of the skill of the composers who create them is that we rarely are fully conscious of their effect.Composer Les Gock, who in 1994 composed the Ten Network news theme that is still used today, is philosophical about the fact that almost no one knows who wrote what is probably his most famous piece of music."You are not meant to notice it -- it's meant to be woven into the whole brand," he says. "I'm usually the invisible man -- it's just the nature of what I do.

"News themes are really interesting, they are very different from other things that you compose. It has to be emotionally neutral. It can't be inherently happy or sad or dramatic."Its first job is to give a sense of urgency: this is news, this is new. The second thing it needs to do is to exude authority. The Ten news theme is a four-note theme that says, we're here, we're solid and you can trust us."You can create something really quite beautiful but if you are seeing people getting murdered in Nairobi, that is not going to work. And threatening and serious is not going to work when Will and Kate have a baby."Gock updates the theme about every five years, with the most recent version out this month as part of the revival of the Ten Eyewitness News brand. Ten is the only main commercial channel to use an original composition.

(Below: Gock second from the left in his Hush days, and below that as in later life as a composer, and with his wife Margaret at the 2008 Screen Music Awards, and finally a story that profiled him in The Age, 16th October 1987, around the time he was working on Belinda).