[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

You and Bob, W9RAN are correct!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Steffens" <gsteffens at pitel.net>
To: "'Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back'" 
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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:11 PM
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle


> Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group who also had a version of The Rock
> Island Line.
>
> Gerry
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> 1975 back
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle
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> 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.
>
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> ----- 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
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>
>> 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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