Sydney singer Bix Bryant (real name was Brian Bickford) was born in 1938. He started singing at dances in his late teens and worked up to running his own dance at Brookvale. In 1960 Bryant was looking for a band to back him and he managed to get The Raiders. The band was performing at Dee Why beach when they were first talent spotted and offered a five-year recording contract with the Festival subsidiary Rex label. The lineup was Tony Stapleton on sax, Billy Green on lead guitar, Brian Godden on rythmn guitar, Howard Leslie on bass and John McIntosh on drums. His first two releases ''Move Two Mountains / Let's Have A Party'' (which was also released in NZ) and ''Little Miss Muffet / Everlovin'' Honey Bee' were raw, raucous rock and roll. His third single ''Wishing Bell / I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore'' moved away from rock 'n' roll and more into pop. Bix went out on his own soon after and became a solo artist.
When the folk boom began a couple of years later, he formed the Liberty Singers. The Liberty Singers, consisting of guitarists Bix, Brian Godden, Larry King and a singing ballet-dancer Irene Whitehead, attempted to tap into the Sean & Sonja market. Resolutely opposed to scruffy folksingers who “hide behind a ‘front’ of beards and general unconformity”, they released a single, ''Derrie, Derrie, Dream / Lay Me Down Dead'', and performed on the soundtrack of a documentary film Road to the West before disbanding in mid 1965. Bix moved to Port Douglas in the early 70s and continued singing. Bix died in 2014.
SINGLES
''Move Two Mountains / Let's Have A Party'' 1960 Rex''Little Miss Muffet (#87) / Ever-Lovin' Honey Bee'' 1960 Rex
''Wishing Bell / I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore'' 1961 Rex
References
http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/