AustLit

Jack O’Hagan began his five decade-long career as a composer in the mid-1910s, finding initial success during the war years as a lyricist, and later providing music for silent films. He wrote songs for revues, plays (including The Sentimental Bloke, 1922) and musical comedies and was heavily involved in radio from 1924 onwards. Among his many hits songs are “The Road to Gundagai” (1922), “Our Don Bradman” (1930), and “Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox” (1938). In later years O’Hagan established his own publishing company, and for 14 years prior to his retirement in 1967 wrote radio jingles.

[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]