Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Senate, and from 1950 until his retirement, Brown was the sole Father. He died in 1967. Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time
Bob Carroll (singer/actor) Bob Carroll (singer/actor) Bob Carroll (June 8, 1918 – November 12, 1994) was a big band singer and stage, film, and television actor. The son of a piano salesman, Carroll attended high school in Brooklyn. Carroll's singing career was interrupted by three years' service in the U.S. Army during World War II. When he returned to civilian life, he joined Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra. Carroll also sang with other orchestras, including Charlie Barnet and Glenn Miller in the 1940s and Gordon Jenkins (for whom he recorded the hit "Charmaine" in 1951) in the 1950s. He is heard on the soundtrack of