Effective period / Period of releases: 1990 - 1997

Jim Haynes is an Australian writer, entertainer, broadcaster, humorist, songwriter and historian.

He was born in 1946 in Sydney. While teaching in Inverell, NSW, in the late 1970s, Jim formed the Bandy Bill & Co Bush Band. He rejoined in 1985 and the band recorded two albums on the Hadley label and had airplay on the ABC radio show Australia All Over. Jim worked weekend shifts on commercial radio station 2NZ, began providing stories and poetry readings for "Australia All Over" and quit teaching to work full-time on that program in 1988. He had a minor hit with "Mow Ya Lawn" in 1989 and signed his first solo record deal with Festival's Kookaburra Label in 1990.

He embarked on a career as an entertainer, performing at clubs and touring a school show called ‘Singabout Australia’. He wrote many comedy, novelty songs.