[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Robert,

Well I got to play CD #19 song #8 to hear "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" by Rolf 
Harris and CD #15 song #9 to hear "My Boomarang Won't Come Back" by Charlie 
Drake. I love that song!

I also love "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor"! Any of you know the 
singer "without" looking him up? Hint: Ireland.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <w9ran at oneradio.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle


> Gerry Steffens wrote:
>> 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...".
>>
>>
>>
> Huh?  You sure you've got the  right song, Gerry?  Those lyrics don't 
> appear in the tune in question.   And Rolf Harris, who was born in Perth 
> in 1930, wrote it in 1957, so it seems to me that makes it an Australian 
> song.
>
> There was objection to the lyrics which contained a reference to "abos" 
> which was deemed an offensive term for the Australian aborigines, but few 
> listerners knew what it meant anyhow.   He later wrote an alternate set of 
> lyrics to highlight some very special backup singers for a 1963 BBC 
> performance...a new group called "The Beatles".
>
> Rolf Harris is a fascinating fellow - championship swimmer, and would-be 
> painter - but you'll have to read this story to understand what that led 
> to:
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897637,00.html
>
> 73 Bob W9RAN
>
>
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