JOHNNY ASHCROFT

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"Little Boy Lost" is an Australian hit song recorded by Johnny Ashcroft. He composed the song from a lyric idea put forward by the disc jockey Tony Withers.

The song accurately relates the saga of Australia’s greatest land and air search. For four days and three nights, in February 1960, William Stanley, an Aboriginal tracker, five thousand people and seven aircraft searched the rugged New England Ranges of New South Wales for a four-year-old farm boy, Steven Walls, the "Little Boy Lost". They found him alive and well.

"Little Boy Lost" was the top Australian hit song of 1960. In its day it became one of the country's all-time greatest hits, awarded the first 45rpm gold record struck in Australia and also, in 1961, New Zealand’s first 45rpm gold record.