Rolf Harris

**Nervous Jock** · 17th November 08, 11:10 AM

He did a very good Flower of Scotland once too

**McClef** · 17th November 08, 12:07 PM

Definitely Two Little Boys though it doesn't seem to get much airtime these days.

Well it might as he has just rerecorded it with the Fron Male Voice Choir!

**Sir William** · 17th November 08, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by Dirk Skene

Now there is a blast from the past

I haven't heard that name in years. I know I don't have any records of his anymore. Couldn't play them if I did. I suppose somebody has put his stuff up on U-Tube.

Check out amazon.com - they have several of his albums on CD.

**herminator** · 18th November 08, 02:45 AM

I just bought the Platinum Collection on amazon, missing the "Big Black Ball" and "Gosport Nancy" (ggod thing I didn´t know what that´s about as a child...).

I had just recieved news that my very first friend died in Melbourne of AIDS a year ago (!) and this just set me back to the years I spent with him in the early 70´s. Rolf Harris is like a soundtrack to that time.

Now I have introduced my children ...

My favourite song was "Nic Teen and Al. K. Hall" but now I think "Sun arise" is one of his best!

**AL-58** · 18th November 08, 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

The music and the painting show...fave tune: Rolf's version of Stairway To Heaven.

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AA

He did that for a TV show here in Australia, every week the musical bit was "Stairway to Heaven" played by a different type of performer/musical group. Rolf was one of many. I have the collection of them on VHS tape called "Stairways to Heaven". Their was a big band version, a poetry reading, an Elvis version etc.

Al

**Big Mikey** · 19th November 08, 06:51 PM

Rolf was a regular performer at the old Cave Supper Club in Vancouver. My fave tune is "Jake The Peg". I think Rudy Coby watched one too many Rolf shows in his youth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRmKlKsgDSo

**auld argonian** · 19th November 08, 08:17 PM

You know, we are glossing over "The Ladies of the Harem of the Court of King Caractacus" which I used to sing to my kids when they were little ones and I was giving them a bath. And they loved it every time...lots of fun taking care of those kids and that song was part of it.

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AA

**herminator** · 19th November 08, 11:26 PM

And now my daughter tells me: "I know that song!"

And yes, she learnt a german version of "tie me kangaroo down" at school ... in Germany!

**Macman** · 20th November 08, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

You know, we are glossing over "The Ladies of the Harem of the Court of King Caractacus" which I used to sing to my kids when they were little ones and I was giving them a bath. And they loved it every time...lots of fun taking care of those kids and that song was part of it.

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AA

We certainly are! I'd forgotten that one. Thanks for the memory, AA.

**Retro Red** · 20th November 08, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by AL-58

He did that for a TV show here in Australia, every week the musical bit was "Stairway to Heaven" played by a different type of performer/musical group. Rolf was one of many. I have the collection of them on VHS tape called "Stairways to Heaven". Their was a big band version, a poetry reading, an Elvis version etc.

Al

Another vote for Rolf's take on Stairway To Heaven, which can be found on the CD, "Stairways To Heaven," with 12 of the many different versions of Stairway To Heaven performed at the end of the Aussie show AL-58 was talking about, "The Money Or The Gun." Sadly, the album is out-of-print, but well worth locating if you're into Dr. Demento-type dementia & novelty. I also enjoy The Beatnix's convincingly Beatlesque take on the Zep classic.

- a little info from a member of The Demento Society

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