
Terry Guilford and Christine Lay. After a lifetime of dancing, Gay is still spreading the joy of a good workout for the body and the mind.
WITH my early childhood in England I had no idea who Gay Gibson was referring to when she talked about finger-clicking, plaid suited and hatted Happy Hammond. I googled him when I got home and found a YouTube of this infectiously smiling fellow singing, “Happy Days are Here Again” with Princess Panda and Lovely Anne. Much of the film stock of this Channel 7 children’s program is now destroyed. If it wasn’t, we would be able to see Gay dancing on stage as a pre-teenager.
Gay was ‘discovered’ when a talent scout raced out from the Myer Emporium (as it was called then) when she was walking past as a four-year-old with her mother and three-year-old sister and said, “Oh!” the talent scout said. “That’s just what I’m looking for!”