Bobby & Laurie their peak in late 1964, busily touring the country and appearing in numerous concert and television performances. They had dozens of engagements and personal appearances every week, with as many as six shows on a Saturday night. One unusual performance was playing 'Tweedledum' and 'Tweedledee' in a Christmas pantomime production of "Alice in Wonderland" at the Tivoli Theatre in Melbourne in December 1964. In early 1965 the pair appeared on the "Teen Scene" music television show on the ABC, where they were famously dragged off the stage by screaming female fans. They appeared in the premiere episode of Channel 0's
John Byrom headed with "Christmas Day for Dolly", was first published in Harrop's "Manchester Mercury" in 1746. Although Byrom is probably best remembered for this Christmas carol, he was regarded by his contemporaries as a poet and a literary man. Most of his poems, the best-known of which is "My spirit longeth for Thee", were religious in tone. He is also remembered for his epigrams and, above all, his coinage of the phrase "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" (in connection with a dispute about the merits of the two composers, Handel and Bononcini). Byrom did not lead an ordinary provincial life. He was a