FW: OOPS! - RE: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

[Gerry Steffens]

And then, this response got caught in a Spam filter.  NOT MY DAY! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Steffens [mailto:gsteffens at pitel.net] 
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:03 PM
To: w9ran at oneradio.net; 'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from
1975 back'
Subject: OOPS! RE: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

OK.  Ya got me dead to rights.  The song was by Charlie Drake called My
Boomerang Won't Come Back.

Sorry 'bout that.  This is what happens when one awakens from a slight
dozing period and believes they are awake.  At least I had the right
continents.

All of the statements hold, just wrong song and wrong performer.  I hope
that's my biggest screw-up today.

Once again, I think one thing and say another.  Do ya suppose there is a
place in politics for me?

Cheers, 

Gerry
 

-----Original Message-----
From: vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Nickels
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:11 PM
To: Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back
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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