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Buddy Williams - Little Boy Lost. (1967)

Buddy Williams recorded "Little Boy Lost" as part of an album for the Reader's Digest Box Set titled "Country And Western Music Jamboree" (RDS -26-9). The songs were recorded in 1967 and appeared on record 9 of 10 LP's and titled "Songs Of The Australian Outback". The album was recorded with Buddy's band "The Overlanders". The song was written and first recorded by Johnny Ashcroft in 1960    • Johnny Ashcroft - Little Boy Lost. (1960)   and was released as a 45rpm single on the EMI Columbia label with "My Love Is A River' on the flip-side. ( DO 4128). The song was written by Ashcroft on the facts surrounding the search for a 4 year old boy Steven Walls who became lost on the 4th of February 1960 on the family property near Tubbamurra near Guyra in the rugged New England Ranges in northern NSW Australia. The search which was the biggest in Australia's history, involved nearly 5,000 people which included Police and locals searching on horseback and on foot, an Aboriginal tracker, soldiers and a number of aircraft. The boy was eventually found 4 days later by a search party around 6 miles from the spot he went missing from, a little thirsty and sunburnt but well. His first words to his rescuers were as in the song "Where's My Daddy". The song became a huge hit in Australia blitzing all other country songs at the time including Slim Dusty's "Pub With No Beer". After Johnny Ashcroft's song "Little Boy Lost" had been in the top 40 charts for around 6 weeks , another young boy called Graeme Thorne was kidnapped in Sydney and held for ransom. His parents had won a large amount of money in the Opera House Lottery. At the time it was normal for the winner's name and location to be published in the newspaper for all the world to see. This case would eventually lead to winners being given the option to have their ticket marked Not For Publication. The young boy was eventually found murdered and his killer, a Stephen Leslie Bradley who was a Hungarian Immigrant to Australia, was captured after fleeing Australia. He was arrested in Ceylon after stepping off the ship by two Sydney Detectives and was soon extradited back to Australia to face trial. Bradley was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life but died of a heart attack a few years later in Goulburn Jail. To his eternal credit, Johnny Ashcroft contacted the Australian broadcasting authorities at the time of the murder and requested his song "Little Boy Lost" be removed from all airplay in the country so as not to cause additional grief to the parents of the murdered boy. All radio stations complied with the request and the song was removed from airplay around Australia at the peak of the song's popularity, the first and only known time this has ever occurred. Steven Walls passed away in April 2020 on his family property near Guyra NSW aged 64. Johnny Ashcroft passed away in May 2021 aged 94.