IRENE PETRIE

Irene Petrie's diverse musical career began in the 1960s, when she earned national fame after appearing on television, radio, touring Vietnam, recording hit songs and later producing her own CDs. She arrived in Adelaide among 902 displaced Europeans on The Goya that berthed at Outer Harbour in May 1949, and her first professional gig in 1964 had Irene singing on an ABC-TV concert of peace songs. Other television shows she appeared on included Roger Cardwell’s Country and Western Hour, Reg Lindsay’s Country and Western Hour, Johnny Mac’s Country Style, Adelaide Tonight, Bandstand, and Showcase 65 and 66. Her successful singles ''Does Your Mother Know'' and ''Really and Sincerely'' led to a Vietnam tour with the Bob Francis Touring Group. As she diversified through folk, pop, jazz and cabaret, she issued a successful album 'If Wishes were Fishes', followed by a national tour with American folk legend, Tom Paxton. 

Irene recorded for ABC’s Let’s Have Music national children’s program with Peter Combe during 1980-83, and during 2002-3 she produced her CDs 'Lookin’ Back' and 'The Glory of Love', an eclectic compilation of her early singles and some wonderful duets. She remains a loved performer on the club scene, especially as a guest of legendary cabaret performer Sandi McMennamin. Since 2005, Irene has primarily focused on her other great passion, photography, going to hundreds of locations to shoot iconic images. Her first photographic exhibition, Impressions of Southern Fleurieu Peninsula, in 2009, was followed later that year with a South Australian Living Artists exhibition titled A Slice of Life. Later exhibitions included On The Beach 2011, with her colour and monochrome images of stunning beaches presented beside works by painter and musician Gunther Stopa (once part of Peter Paul and Petrie), and Here, There & Everywhere, showcasing Irene’s photography from a road trip that stretched from southern Western Australia to Broome, the Daintree and the streets of Melbourne.

SINGLES
''Does Your Mother Know? (#95) / On The Other Side Of Silence'' 1969 Sweet Peach
''Really And Sincerely / Bye Bye Love'' 1970 Sweet Peach

''Sad Sad Tomorrow / Looking Glass'' [With Alan Slater] 1970 Gamba

EPs

'When Will It End?' [with Andy Beckar] 1970 Gamba

ALBUMS

'If Wishes Were Fishes' 1984 Sandstock

References

http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/