The Dalrays aka The Del Ray Brothers: Acrobats and Hand Balancers 1964

Here are The Dalrays, a fabulous, comedy acrobatic and hand balancing duo performing in May 1964 in Sydney, Australia on a TV show called Bandstand. Although this video title and indeed IMDB list them as The Del Ray Brothers, I suspect that this was never their real name but perhaps it got “lost in translation” and now I know that they were Australian, perhaps an accent also contributed to the misspelling. In the first two minutes, we see that they are quite brilliant and then their act takes an unexpected and rather eccentric operatic turn. A huge thanks to Joanna Bassi for informing me that they were known as The Dalrays. It's amazing how different the results are, when you just change one letter. I suspect that this is the correct spelling and I'm fairly sure they weren't brothers.

Here's a fantastic, detailed article about them. If you like reading, read this! http://jonathanbollen.net/2021/10/01/the-dalrays/

https://youtu.be/MLWIUuR6_LY?si=y_On_rP6r-2hPorr

This duo is not to be confused with a juggling duo also called The Del Ray Brothers with Ray sometimes spelled as Rey. They are mentioned along with two photographs here in this article:
https://www.juggle.org/the-history-and-development-of-kick-ups-with-clubs/

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