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From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (jeffreys)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Bad Songs--A Sampling (Long) /A correction (Short)
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 17:26:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 17:26:59 1985
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> harrison, rolf -- two little boys
>      The flip side of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport."  It
>      would have been a better idea to have issued a one-
>      sided single.
> 
> From  ... ucbvax!ucbingres!ebm (Grady Toss)

This record, unfortunately, was a big hit in Engalnd some years ago, the
flipside being a hit a few years before that!

The artist is Rolf Harris and not Harrison.( bit of a pun there as he is also
a well known *quickie* artist. He usually uses large [4,6 or 8 inch wide ]
brushes and/or rollers ). As the title of the flipside may suggest, he is in
fact Austrailan.
 He divides his time (or use to) between Britain and Australia. And up until
a few years ago had his own TV show in England. It was the usuall type of
variety show, during which, if you can imagine this, he would sing a song and
paint a large (10 feet x about 12 feet) canvass, depicting the subject or a
scene from the song.
 I found that most of the time his songs did not appeal to me much, but his
painting was very good, considering the time he had to paint them and the size
of the canvass he had to cover, but the brushes and rollers helped! It was not
until he had finished the picture that you could tell what it was of, which
was quite good because you spent the time he was singing, wondering what the
picture was and did not notice the song/s!
-- 
          [ You called all the way from America - Joan Armatrading ]          
 [ You're never alone with a rubber duck - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy ]
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