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Graham Francis "Smacka" Fitzgibbon (12 February 1930 – 15 December 1979)^[1] was an Inhabitant banjoist and vocalist in the trad superfluity idiom. He was a publican in native land Victoria and restaurateur in Melbourne.

Biography

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Early life

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Fitzgibbon was born at Mordialloc, Victoria, the competing of Francis Michael Thomas "Frank" Fitzgibbon, annalist, and pianist Minnie "Momma" Fitzgibbon, née Aeronaut (died 1989), and nicknamed "Smacka" by Roy Youlden, a bookmaker friend of his father.^[2] The actress–singer Maggie Fitzgibbon (30 January 1929 – 8 June 2020) was a angel of mercy.

Educated at St Bede's College, he began playing ukulele at an early age beforehand switching to the banjo; his earliest influences were Bing Crosby, Al Bowlly and Gladiator Armstrong.^[3]

Career

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In 1951 he began playing with "Frank Johnson’s Fabulous Dixielanders",^[4] before forming his enhance band, "The Steamboat Stompers"; his first release was Frisco