1957 Australian tour with Little Richard, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, Eddie Cochran, Alis Lesley & Johnny O'Keefe and the Dee Jays

Johnny O'Keefe and the Dee Jays were not originally selected to be on the tour but when Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps were offloaded in Honolulu on the way to Australia both Lee Gordon and Alan Heffernan who were aware that Johnny and the Dee Jays had a strong following in Sydney went to Valentine's restaurant which was below O'keefe's father's furniture store where Johnny and the Dee Jays were rehearsing and asked him about getting the group to play Gene Vincent's music as well as backing up Alis Lesley and Eddie Cochran. O'Keefe would only agree if he could perform 3 songs in his own segment so they did.

The tour began in Wollongong on October 1st and O'keefe got booed, but he won the crowd over. The same thing happened in Sydney but after that they never got booed again and the rest of the tour was very successful packing out the venues. In Adelaide there was a problem was when the police appoarched Alan Heffernan that if the crowd became too wild the police would close the show down. In Melbourne a near riot occured in the ringside seats when Little Richard threw the clothes he had shed into the crowd and it took the attendants some time to break the group trying to gain possession of it up. The police told him not to do the striptease in the second session. It was also in Melbourne where Little Richard saw the appearence of the Russian sputnik on it's orbit around the earth, which got him into a panic and thought the world was going to end. He decided to become a minster when he got back to the USA. which in the second show in his robes reading the bible for 20 minutesand it was in Newcastle where he threw his rings,bracelets and necklaces into the water when the tour was crossing the Hunter River which the tour finished in Sydney on the 12th.