RICK TURK- Creator of "The Candy Club", script-writer, song-writer/arranger and production manager.
Rick began his musical career at age 19 when he was signed by Albert’s/EMI as a performer and songwriter. He later moved to the U.K. and enrolled at The Cambridge College of Arts to study for a Dip. Mus. He returned to Australia four years later and set up his first recording studio in Sydney called ‘Honeyfarm’. He composed over 30 ‘jingles’ for advertising agencies and then turned to T.V. program themes, and wrote extensively for the A.B.C and Grundy Television with themes including ‘Four Corners, ‘Foreign Correspondent’, and ‘7.30 Report’ for the A.B.C., and ‘Perfect Match’, ‘It’s A Knockout’, ‘Blankety Blanks’, ‘Family Feud’ and many others for Grundy Television. He moved back to the U.K. in the early nineties to take up a position as musical director for Grundy/Fremantle T.V. productions in London,composing the themes, and acting as M.D., for live shows such as Man O' Man (ITV) and Night Fever (Channel 5). Moving back to Australia in 2002, he returned to song writing, and began writing musicals for children and ‘high-school musicals’ as well as writing and producing ‘Tribute’ shows to famous groups from the 60’s and 70’s including ‘The Mamas and The Papas', and ‘The Carpenters’. He is now writing and producing his Magnum Opus, ‘The Candy Club’. |
CHERYL WEBB - Vocal arranger & choir-mistress
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WENDY BROWN -Choreographer and Artistic Director
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RICK BEST-Horns and strings arranger.
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