Ivan Hutchinson

Ivan Joseph Hutchinson (11 February 1928 – 7 October 1995) was an Australian film critic and television personality for over 30 years from the early 1960s until the mid-1990s, first on Melbourne-only programmes on HSV and later nationwide through the entire Seven Network. Ivan Hutchinson also worked on arrangements and played on many successful recordings made by Fable Records, recording at the Bill Armstrong Studios in Melbourne. From the early pop ballads of Ted Mulry through to the VFL football anthems recorded by the Fable Singers released in 1972 (he was also one of the uncredited singers, the anthems played throughout stadiums to this day), his skill as an arranger and piano virtuoso was always in demand, yet he himself only recorded one album of his own -- "Honky Tonk Party Favourites", released in 1973.