Bill Lovelock descended from a family originally from the English town of Wallingford who settled in the Sydney area in the 1860s.
[2] After acting as an intelligence reporter during World War 2, he was unsettled by the experience and unable to settle down to academic study.
[5] Lovelock's work with Shirley Abicair also brought him success after he helped her collect folksongs to fit her repertoire.
[7] The connection with Shirley Abicair eventually took Lovelock to London, and from there he went on to work with Burl Ives in New York City.
[8] Later he was to work as one of the research directors for the television show Hollywood and the Stars (1963–4), and on his return to Sydney as executive producer of the Australian version of This Is Your Life (1975–80).