[Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

Mon Jul 28 14:14:50 EDT 2008

Well Sheldon, that gives us three correct answers. Well done group!

What struck me as even more interesting was that both Gerry and Bob said; 
Well sure, that would be Lonnie Donegan and his skiffle group.  I had to
look up "skiffle" one time when some DJ said that!   I also like his
"Rock Island Line" mostly because it sounds like he was on speed or
something when he recorded it! Bob

Gerry said roughly the same thing.

Both mentioned the song "Rock Island Line". Frankly, I have never heard that 
one by him. I have only heard it, both instrumental and vocal versions, by 
Nashville Artists.

Alright, I throw in the official DBF very very old bowling towel! What the 
rodent's rump hair is a "Skiffle" group?

Where do you guys find these terms anyhow? I'll bet a brain wave monitor 
tuned for your unique EEG wave form patterns while in the Alpha sleep zone 
would display some fascinating visual imagery! (there are four levels of 
sleep. Alpha to Delta, with Alpha being the highest sleep level just pas the 
border of the Twilight Zone. Most dreams "appear" to occur here, but that is 
only because the brain is 'awake' enough to allow memory of dreams to take 
place. Down yonder in Delta is where most nightmares happen. Almost nobody 
ever remembers a nightmare, just the terror, a few still shot images of 
something awful etc. Which is one reason why a young child awakened from a 
nightmare is almost impossible to console. Along with the fact that your 
metal belt buckle is poking him/her in the rump! For more information on 
Dreams, Sleep And Extra Sensory Perceptions, read my college thesis from 
1969. Hey! That is true, the University of MI has it on file as a research 
document.)

As I wandered down the pot hole ridden path through my memory lane I could 
not help but wonder whatever became of some of the so called "One Hit 
Wonders". Some of them I can about guess, went back to shooting large fat 
rodents that inhabit the NYC sewer system. Some call them politicians others 
just well fed rodents! Others probably just never got lucky again and had 
another song they recorded chart. Back in those day, for the youngsters 
among us, a term called "payola" had real meaning! Cash in the hand of a 
local DJ often times influenced what songs got on his weekly 'play list', as 
well as how many times "certain" songs got played! Such as the classic 
"Alley OOP" by the Hollywood Argyles. Funny the first tfew times you heard 
it, after that ...

That song stayed at, or near, the top of the Billboard chart for how many 
weeks guys? I know, TOO many! One local DJ in Flint wh worked for WTRX on 
1330, actually got a turntable up on the roof of the station and played that 
song, and ONLY that song hour after hour after hour! He vowed to stay up 
there and keep playing the song until people stopped requesting it, buying 
it and it got out of the top five on the national charts!

What a media frenzy he created! Great PR for WTRX too! That DJ was up there 
on the roof for several days! I think he slept in a sleeping bag when the 
station was off the air from midnight until whenever! Ah yes, the good old 
sixties!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sheldon Daitch" <sdaitch at KUW.IBB.GOV>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle

>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>
>> To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
>> <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
>> Cc: <w9ran at oneradio.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 5:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Song Title Puzzle
>>
>>
>>> 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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