[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Well, who was it OM?


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To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
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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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