Carnivale Club Entertainment: Take Five featuring Wilma Reading

Wilma Reading

If Australian Australian entertainment history has an unknown fairytale it is the story of Wilma Reading.

As a young seventeen year old Wilma left her hometown of Cairns to appear on the Australian television show Bandstand. After recording for Festival Records in Sydney Wilma did the unthinkable for a young girl of her background and age, she embarked on an international career.

This is the point where most young girl’s dreams would end, but for Wilma Reading it was only the beginning. After a first engagement at theGoodwood Hotel in Singapore, Wilma then toured for Hilton Hotels International. She was discovered at the Tokyo Hilton by the American ABC Agency who contracted Wilma to appear at Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas. A string of other live U.S. appearances followed including a season at the legendary Copacabana Nightclub, New York.

It seemed only natural to Wilma that U.S. Television would be her next challenge. She went on to appear on a number of successful American television shows including the renowned Johnny Carson Show. Beckoned to England by MAM, the English theatrical agency who managed Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck, Wilma made over thirty appearances on BBC Television including an entire season on the Morecambe and Wise Show. A live tour of venues throughout the United Kingdom lead to Wilma securing the leading role of ‘Julie’ in the West End production of Showboat, replacing Cleo Laine. Appearances at the London Palladium, the Talk of the Town and numerous recordings for PYE Records in London and NCR in Europe followed.

In what has become a ‘stella’ career Wilma Reading includes in her ‘high points’: appearing live with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, starring with Jim Brown in the U.S. film Pacific Inferno, a UNICEF television special with Danny Kaye, thirty-three one woman concerts in Russia, appearing on over seventy-five international television shows, a BBC concert withCharles Aznavour at the London Festival Hall, recording the soundtrack title song for the Julie Andrews-Omar Sharif film The Tamarind Seed and the reunification concert in Berlin where Wilma performed with the West Berlin Symphony (RIAS) on her left and the East Berlin Symphony on her right.

The astounding Wilma Reading is now back in Australia, living in Queensland, working with young people who like herself ‘have a dream’ but are maybe a little scared to take the leap.

Wilma is also promoting her new Australian recorded album ’Now You See Me’. Australia’s true indigenous ‘Lady of Song’ has some great stories to tell, countless ‘name dropping’ experiences to share and many dreams to inspire!

TAKE FIVE – Their Music

North Queensland’s most versatile band, playing rock, jazz, country, easy listening, old time, etc.Music from great artists as Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Joe Cocker, Frank Sinatra,The Beatles, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, to name a few……

TAKE FIVE is one of the very few bands capable of playing hours of your instrumental favourites for quiet background music and then turn up the beat to rock’n’roll

TAKE FIVE – Their References:

Some functions to our credit include backing artists: Kim Durant, Chelsea Brown, Warren Mitchell…..Support entertainment for Mental as Anything, Seekers. Deltones. Drifters, James Morrison. Performed at all Leading Venues; Orpheus Island Resort -(one of Qld’s most exclusive resorts) Cairns International Hotel, Hilton Hotel – Cairns. Radisson Hotel – Cairns, Cairns Colonial Club Resort – Cairns. Sheraton Mirage Resort- Port Douglas, Casa De Meze –Cairns, Tuna Towers – Cairns, Far North Qld Amateur Turf Club – Cairns biggest annual social event. (Preferred band for over 15 years) – Cairns RSL-3 Year Resident Band. Comalco Co. Ltd. and many clubs, Corporations & individuals throughout North Qld…..

Phone: Bernard Lee Long (07) 4051 3370 or Mobile 0419 706 575

P O Box 4772 CAIRNS 4870 Email: bleelong@bigpond.com

Friday 28

Carnivale Jazz Cabaret @ Carnivale Club

Sunset Sessions (5 – 7 pm): Los Caracoles $5

Evening Session (7 – 12): Take Five featuring Wilma Reading

$20 door / $15 online presale

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