[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

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Yes,  I know who sang the Chewing GUm song.  And it was on one of the Dr. Demento anniversary compilation CDs, as well.

Sheldon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

> 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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