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Radio veteran John Vincent dies
LEGENDARY radio man John "Vinnie" Vincent's magnificent, mellifluous voice boomed out one last time to 500 mourners at his funeral service today.
"Take care and I love you lots", he beseeched. His final recording made for the Debonair’s club, which raises funds for hard-up entertainers, was played for the first time in public to celebrate the life of one of Adelaide’s most colourful, funniest and loved radio personalities.
They were serious, heartfelt words, unlike his quick, witty on-air utterings during his stellar four-decade career on six Adelaide radio stations, or that irreverent verbiage of Vinnie’s alter-ego ocker rocker, Ken Oath.
At the service today, held at Berry Funeral Home in Norwood, the other John Vincent starred, the devoted family man who doted on his three daughters, "daddy's girls" Samantha, Heidi and Belinda.
"To be honest, he was just a big kid who didn't take life so seriously and told us never to grow up," recalled his daughter Heidi Vincent in her eulogy.
"He would make up silly songs playing them to us on his guitar and for Sam's eight birthday he performed as 'Harry Poppy'."
Myriad photographs portrayed a husband, father and grand-father who was a jovial dad, but also a "great worrier" who drove "the brats" from place to place in the safest of all cars, a big red Volvo station-wagon.
They captured Vinnie as "Poppa Dork" surrounded by three gorgeous red-haired grand-daughters, baby grand-sons, embracing his wife, Sue, and as father of the bride.
His idiosyncratic self was also celebrated - that his tea needed to be stirred anti-clockwise and that Vinnie hated sport so much he once tried to get Foxtel to remove the Sports stations.
Vinnie suffered heart problems from birth and had serious heart surgery in his late teens. He died last Friday, March 27th, aged 67.
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