PJ sings for Don

Hundreds of devoted fans of Don Lane joined with showbiz names yesterday at South Sydney Junior Rugby League Club, where the legendary TV star had given countless club performances.

Son PJ Lane sang They’re Playing Our Song from the Marvin Hamlisch / Carol Bayer-Sager stage musical.

Helen Reddy sang for the first time in seven years.

Toni Lamond gave a speech remembering the man who had given many their break in showbiz.

Rhonda Burchmore, who had escorted Lane to the Logies on the night he was instated into the Hall of Fame, sangNew York, New York.

Song and dance man Wayne Scott Kermond performed.

Longtime comedy writer Mike McColl Jones read a “letter from heaven.”

And Bert, as widely reported, dipped his wig to Don.

In the audience were Barry Crocker, Jon English, John Burgess, Carmen Duncan, Mikey Robins, Mike Whitney and Maria Venuti.

The packed crowd gave  a standing ovation to Don Lane as a video of him singing Once Before I Go from the final Don Lane Show closed the show.

Source: The Age
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