Little Boy Lost

Little Boy Lost is an Australian single released by Johnny Ashcroft in early 1960. He composed the song from a lyric idea put forward by the disc jockey Tony Withers. It is based on the successful search for Steven Walls, a four-year-old boy from 'Tubbamurra', a farm near Guyra in the NSW New England Ranges. Historic event 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 other people and seven aircraft searched the rugged New England Ranges of New South Wales for four-year-old farm boy, Steven Walls, the Little Boy Lost. They found him alive and well. Hit record