Harry Lindley Evans CMG (18 November 1895 – 2 December 1982) was a Cape Colony-born Australian composer, pianist and teacher.
[1] Evans developed as an accompanist, playing with the flautist John Lemmone and the opera singer Dame Nellie Melba on her tours of England and Australia, from 1922 until her death in 1931.
He and Hutchens included the young and then unknown Joan Hammond on one of their tours to Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania, over the ABC's misgivings.
[3] His song "Australia Happy Isle", with lyrics by Jessie Street, won the Victorian sesquicentennial prize in 1934.
[5] Evans wrote some film scores for the developing movie industry: for Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised (1936), Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940) with Willy Redstone and Alfred Hill,[6] The Rats of Tobruk (1944), and Ken G. Hall's Tall Timbers (1937).
For thirty years from 1939, Lindley Evans was featured as "Mr Melody Man" in the ABC Children's Hour and the Argonauts Club.