Don Spencer
Singer, Musical Artist
1941 –
Who is Don Spencer?
Donald Richard "Don" Spencer, OAM is an Australian children's television presenter and musician. He had a long-running role on Play School on both the Australian version and the United Kingdom version. In March 1963 his first single, "Fireball" – the theme tune to a UK TV science fiction series, Fireball XL5 – reached No. 32 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2002 Spencer established the Australian Children's Music Foundation. On Australia Day 2007 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia with the citation "for service to children's music and television as a songwriter and performer, and through the establishment of the Australian Children's Music Foundation". Spencer married Julie Horsfall, they have two children: Dean, a musician; and Danielle Spencer, an actress and singer, who married fellow actor, Russell Crowe, in 2003.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1941
Tamworth - Also known as
- Donald Richard Spencer OAM
- Donald Richard Spencer
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- Australia
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on July 23, 2013
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