[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

[Sheldon Daitch]

I didn't want to spoil it for the rest of the group.  Without looking it up,
I might have mispelled Donegan.

Sheldon

Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> Well, who was it OM?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <sdaitch at KUW.IBB.GOV>
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> Subject: Re: [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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