[5] In the early 1930s Dargie took up the chromatic harmonica and won a variety competition for professional and amateurs, P&A Parade on a local radio station 3KZ in 1937.

[10][11] Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) hired him as a harmonica player to tour Australia for three months from November 1937.

"[12] In February 1938 he joined ABC-sponsored Jim Davidson's Dance Band alongside hill-billy comedian Bobby Dyer on "an extended tour of capital cities and provincial centres.

[5][15] After the tour Dargie moved to Sydney where he studied clarinet and orchestration, before starting his own harmonica school there.

[15] From early March to late April 1942 Horrie Dargie and His Rockin' Reeds played a weekly programme on ABC radio.

[20] While in New Guinea in July 1944, he was called up from the audience by Adler to perform "Stardust" at a concert for allied soldiers in Lae (see infobox photo).

[11] By 1952 the Quintet had risen in popularity and played their farewell concert at the Sydney Town Hall in November 1952 before leaving for England.

[25] Dargie took up positions at the then-affiliated TV stations ATN-7 (Sydney) and GTV-9 (Melbourne), where he was in charge of the talent division – variety was popular at the time – he worked on four or five shows a week.

[26] The latter programme was produced by DYT Productions, which had been established by Dargie with Arthur Young and Johnny Tillbrook.

[27][28] Dargie compèred the first nationwide-edition of The Price Is Right in 1963 on Seven Network, which had previously had rival versions in Melbourne (1958) and Sydney (1957–1958).

[27] It was a pop music show, which regularly featured solo entertainers Johnny Young, Ian Turpie and Olivia Newton-John.

[31] Dargie provided musical arrangements for film Crocodile Dundee and TV series The Leyland Brothers.

[32] Horrie Dargie married Julie Babette Cheffirs (born 1918, Broken Hill) on 5 February 1940 in Sydney.

[37] His wife, as Julie Dargie, wrote social commentary for newspapers, Broken Hill's The Barrier Miner (fl.

[38][39][40] While performing in London in late 1955 Dargie contracted polio and was hospitalised[41] – apparently he collapsed on stage.

[1][42] Dargie married Winifred "Betty" Glew (born c.1915) in March 1955 in England, a former 1940s Tivoli dancer who had joined Folies Bergère in Paris in 1950.

Dargie was inducted into its hall of fame in 1996 in recognition of being the first Australian to achieve gold record status, the producer of The Go!!