This week's story starts well outside Gippsland, as did last week's, in a tiny town called Lubeck. So why is Lubeck in a column about Gippsland history?
Well, some time ago I wrote a story about Victoria's rural radio stations and the way in which the two-letter suffixes on the call-signs identified their location, at least usually, as in 3UL and Warragul and 3TR at Traralgon before it went to Sale.

I admitted that I could find nothing about 3LK, but Don Pruser called me and today he filled me in on the mystery. 3LK was in Lubeck, but it was no ordinary country station. These words are from last week's column, more or less, to help it all make sense for people who missed that.
The local connection is through Don Pruser, living in retirement in Warragul.
Don was born in Northcote in 1938. "I was a city boy until 1968," he said. Aged 15, he started work for radio station 3DB, as a turntable operator. "In those days many of us left school and went to work, as so many did. He was a Legacy boy. His father was coming home for discharge after serving in Papua New Guinea and he was offered a last-minute seat in a DC3 heading for Sale. There were six or seven other last-minute passengers. The plane crashed while landing at Sale, and all aboard were killed.
Much later, in 1968, he and Colleen came to Neerim South to live, but Don had seen the growth of television and the change of radio from the inside, as it were.
He was one of "Swallow's Juniors". Swallow and Ariell made ice-cream and various biscuits, and they sponsored a show on 3DB where a chorus of young folk sang the eight top tunes of the week, and Don was one of them. They'd rehearse in the Flinders Street building Herald and 3DB building with pianist Mabel Nelson, and then all go to the Wesley Church hall in Collins Street to record the show. Ernie Sigley was one of the team.
Do you remember the commercial jingle "The flying swallow, your guarantee of quality"? I certainly do.
In 1952 or 53 the show was dropped but in 1956 the concept came to life again on 3DB with Brian Naylor compering "Brian and the Juniors". That went to air after the football every Saturday, but it also succumbed and after a time was replaced with Johnny Young's "Young Talent Time". The basic format remained much the same, though 'Young Talent Time" was on Channel 7. Television had arrived. "The Happy Gang" became "Sunnyside Up'.
Don remembers Eric Pearce as station manager before he became a hugely-respected newsreader. Brian Naylor was there for about twenty years that Don can remember, and Mal Waldon was there. Bill Collins and Dick Cranbourne were there, with John Eden and Danny Webb. He worked with all of them in various ways getting the shows to air from 3DB.
In 1960 his life changed when he married Colleen, from Stawell. She was a country singer and was heard on Dick Cranbourne's "Hillbilly Hour", which was broadcast at 8.00am on Sundays.
Colleen came from a farm at Stawell and Don went up there a few times and got rather a taste for rural life. He was about to stop being a city boy and become a country boy. 3DB was changing, with the programming emphasis moving away from light entertainment provided by live performers and toward much talkback radio, perhaps as a way of avoiding head-on competition with television stations, especially Channel Seven, of course. Don had moved into production by this time was he remembers a Holden Kingswood with a caravan behind with all the gear, doing outside broadcasts from all sorts of places, always hooking up to a telephone landline to send their show back home to 3DB.
In 1968 Don and Colleen came to Gippsland (I said this story would have a Gippsland connection, did I not?) and bought their own farm at Neerim South milking 80-90 cows, and raising four children at the same time.
In 2008 Don and Colleen retired to Warragul, to place overlooking the Warragul Golf Course where Don still plays many a game. He lives close enough to drive his golf cart up the road to the course, play his game and drive back home – quite legally.
Now, while they were out at Neerim South, they met a few kindred spirits and decided, as you do, to start a dance band. For decades these local bands were a vital part of their communities. You could not have a DJ with a digital panel back then. You got a band, with real people and you got live music for your dance, or ball, or party.
The band was made up of Don on the drums with Colleen singing, Jack Pretty, who had the store at Jindivick and played the double bass, Ray Logan from Logan's Sandwich Shop, who played the saxophone, and Ronald Webster from Pakenham, who played the piano. They played all over the place, as did the Chatfields, the Nottman brothers and Ellinbank's Daisy Rogers. Daisy pounded the piano hard, simply because there were no amplifiers available to the bands.
Most of the men in these bands were cockies who had to get up to milk and dances would go to 2am, and later only to 1am. Often someone would have a whip-round to get the money to hire the band for longer. This was never really welcomed by blokes who had to be up early to milk, and who might have to drive home from Rosebud, or Sale.
One of the band (Ron Webster, I think) was fighting a bushfire in Upper Beaconsfield, in a Thames Trader van which rolled off the road and into the fire. The doors jammed so they had to kick out the back roll-up door. One man died. Webster was terribly burned. He gave up the band for a while because his fingers were too tender for a piano, but he worked hard on his recovery and then electronic keyboards became available, working with a much lighter touch.
Now, I know that this story might seem for a large part to be out of Gippsland, but even before he came here in 1968 Don was helping put out shows to which thousands of Gippslanders listened. He worked though that epic period when television was introduced and radio had to reinvent itself.
And I find out about 3LK.