[2] The recorded version of the National Anthem Advance Australia Fair that is now usually used to accompany singers at major sporting and community events is Tommy Tycho's arrangement.
[4][6] He commenced studying at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teachers included Leo Weiner[6] and Zoltán Kodály.
[4][7] He and his parents had adopted Lutheranism in an attempt to disguise their Jewishness,[5] but to no avail – he was interned in a German forced labour camp in 1943 at age 15, and was lucky to survive.
)[6] The Australian artists with whom he worked include Peter Allen, Ricky May, Olivia Newton-John, Julie Anthony, John Farnham, Anthony Warlow, Jill Perryman, Barry Crocker, Kamahl, James Morrison, David Campbell, Judi Connelli, violinist Ian Cooper, Suzanne Johnstone, Jackie Love, James Blundell, Don Burrows, Andy Firth, Marina Prior, Rob Guest, Jimmy Little, Tommy Emmanuel, Normie Rowe, Rhonda Burchmore, Ingrid James, Donald Cant and many others.
[3] He also worked with overseas performers such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong, Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra and many others.
[9][10] He then lived in a nursing home where he received regular therapy; though his left side was paralysed, he would compose and play with his right hand.