Slow Down Sandy/Alone/I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself/Shirley Lee/ Lookin' For Love/All Time Loser/ Dancing In Your Eyes/Come Dance With Me/Change Your Mind/Fall To You
Billy -- whose real name was William Tregonning -- started his pop career as lead singer of Melbourne rock'n'roll band The Checkmates from 1961-63 At various times The Checkmates comprised Adams, Jeff Bedford (guitar), Tony Daly (guitar), Ian Allen (bass), Graham Bloomfield (sax), Roger Scott (sax), Ron Chapman (drums) and Eddie Chappell (drums). After Adams went solo, Ron Fletcher joined as lead singer.. He became popular on the local dance and disco scene in the mid-60s, and this led to regular appearances on The Go!! Show and a recording contract with the Go!! label. He recorded five pop singles for the Go!! label: `Slow Down Sally'/`Alone' (1965), `I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself'/`Shirley Lee' (1965), -`Lookin' for Love'/`All Time Loser' (1966), `Come Dance with Me'/`Dancing in Your Eyes' (1966) and `Change Your Mind'/`I Fall to You' (1966). Billy was perhaps not the greatest singer, but he was a competent and personable performer.
His trademark was his outlandish bouffant hairdo which, according to Noel McGrath, he was eventually obliged to trim back after hundreds of letters of complaint from Go!! Show viewers. Billy's only hit was a cover of Eddy Quinteros' 1960 hit "Slow Down Sandy". His four subsequent singles failed to chart and he eventually left the music scene and took a job in promotions with a major Melbourne department store.
Adams's version of Buddy Knox's I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself was a minor hit in Melbourne (1965, #49) and another single Dancing In Your Eyes (1966) charted in Brisbane (#24) and Perth (#37).
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