Australian country music international hit "Armstrong", a tribute to the historic 1969 moon landing by American astronaut Neil Armstrong is now included in a time capsule at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Ted Egan (AM) began recording in 1969 and has released 28 albums, mostly themed around outback life, history and Aboriginal affairs. Eric Bogle's 1972 folk lament to the Gallipoli campaign "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" recalled the Celtic origins of Australian folk-country. Singer-songwriter John Williamson, (OAM) began to build his reputation as an iconic Australian entertainer with his 1970 performance of his first song "Old Man Emu" on
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy Armstrong and the Ivory Treasure" (1937). Daniels' tale was based on a 1937 Talbot Mundy radio script which Mundy had first written as his novel "The Ivory Trail" (1919). Bob Schoenke also drew a newspaper comic strip based on the radio series between 1947 and 1949. A short "Jack Armstrong" animated TV pilot was developed by Hanna-Barbera for a proposed television series. However, when negotiations for rights to the characters collapsed, the planned series was reworked into what became the animated adventure "Jonny Quest" (1964). Some of the "Jack Armstrong" footage survived in the closing credits for "Jonny Quest". Timothy