Buddy Williams (5 September 1918 – 12 December 1986) born as
Harry Taylor and also known as
Harold Williams was an
Australian country musician, singer and songwriter, known as "The Yodelling Jackaroo". Williams was the first Australian to record country music in
Australia,after Hugh Holm and three years after the
New Zealander Tex Morton made his first recording in Australia. Buddy Williams recorded his own songs about life and times in the Australian bush. It was with Buddy Williams that the Bush Ballad was first born.