[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Sorry my friend, but you are mistaken.

Rolf Harris did the song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down", but the song you are 
quoting lyrics from is by Charlie Drake and is titled "My Boomerang Won't 
Come Back".

I just played the USA release, the original 45 rpm single, and it definitely 
says "black in the face".

Duane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Steffens" <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: "'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle


> We here in the US have a case of lyric cleansing in the 1960s.  Rolf 
> Harris,
> a British performer, performed the song Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport which
> many thought to be an Australian song.  It was not.  There are three
> versions of it.  The original single or shorter version (45) and the more
> lengthy and I presume album version have lyrics that go as follows:  "I
> waved the thing all over the place, practiced 'till I was black in the
> face...".  It was deemed necessary by someone that a separate US version 
> was
> necessary which goes as follows:  "I waved the thing all over the place,
> practiced 'till I was blue in the face...".
>
> And so it goes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gerry
>
>
>
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