Conference marvin::uk_music

    Who could forget 'two little boys', a seminal tune whose influences can
    be heard throughout the major musical movements of the last twenty years.
    
    Mikef (who used to know all the words)
    (actually, when I was 5, I fell in the pool at the bottom of the
    garden, scared my parents to death...)

    
    Not forgetting, "Jake the Peg", a moving ballad about the life of a man
    who suffered the cruellest of handicaps, being surplus in the limb
    department to the tune of one leg.

    
    But Rolf, believe it or not, has his critics too. In the sixties, he
    shocked the animal-loving world with his "Tie me kangaroo down, sport",
    a song which promoted barbaric ill treatment of marsupials.

    Re .3
    
    Wasn't there a Welsh cover version of this by Max Boyce (a real talent
    and he could hold a giant leek too!). I think it was called 'Tie me
    down when there're sheep around, Boyo' :^)
    
    Mark
    
    PS You can say what you like about his singing, but despite myself
    I'm still in awe of his ability to make a picture out of  seemingly
    random splodges of paint!
    

    I think Rolf peaked with 'Sun Arise', a record which predated and
    predicted the whole rave scene over twenty years before it happened. 
    
    This, in addition to the aforementioned 'War Canoe', is living proof of
    Rolf's status as a true pioneer.
    
    Bob

    
    Now I've had time to think about it Bob.....
    
    I'd say Adam and the Ants "Prince Charming" was almost certainly a
    rip-off of Rolfs "Fijian Girl", the B-side of "Sun Arise". (Yes, I have
    it at home!). 
    
    Dave

    
    Lets face it the man is an all round entertainer, singer, painter,
    cartoonist, stylaphone player, the list is endless, move over Terry
    Wogan now is the time of Rolf.
    
    Tim
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    Terry Wogan...aaarrrggghhhhh!!!!
    
    Didn't he have some *silly* little tune in the charts all those
    years back! Now what was it's name???

    Something about mnorris men - Choral Dance??? rings a bell.
    
    	Andy.
    

    Floral dance (Brighouse and Rastrick brass band??).
    
    mikef

    And I can tell you, consulting my Gambo and Rice 'All-time Hits' book,
    which I just borrowed off Dave, that it was in 1978. 
    
    It's probably only a matter of a year or two until the 'Floral Dance 
    Megamix' is snapped up by Levi's, used on an ad, re-released, and gets
    to number 1.
    
    Bob

    
    "Two Little Boys" was also a hit for Splodgenessabounds, and was issued
    with a free boomerang guaranteed not to come back if you threw it.
    
    Memorable only for the line...
    
    "Up goes a shout... OI!!!"
    
    Dave

	Only two men in entertainment really cut it for me, them being Rolf 
	and Bruce 'The Guvnor' Forsyth.

	Echo	

    
    How could you leave out Jimmy Tarbuck, Little & Large, Bob Monkhouse
    and all those other greats.
    
    Tim
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   What about Des O'Connor?

    Brucie's 'I'm a Good Boy' c/w 'My Little Budgie' rates right up there
    with Rolf's finest.
    
    Bob

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Val Doonican 
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    I don't know how you dare mention Brucie in the same breath as Rolf.
    
    Rolf Harris is still, today the best Rock n' Roll act Australia has 
    ever produced.
    
    When Kate Bush recorded her "The Dreaming" album, she insisted that
    Rolf play didgeridoo. And when the In Crowd sang "You'll never walk
    alone", they were right, because Rolf was in there with them.
    
    Dave

    
    Rolf, for me, was an inspiration.  From the very first day I got my
    Stylophone I felt my musical abilities increasing.  Without Rolf I
    probably wouldn't be the Stylophone player I am today.
    
    Paul

    Rolf was an inspiration to many lesser musicians,
    I mean, David Bowie could have never have got space oddity to be the
    hit it was without the stylophone which is on it.
    
    	Andy.
    

    Quite right.
    
    Let's face it INXS owe a lot of their style and even material
    to Rolf. Listen carefully to the Kick album and tell me that it isn't
    almost song for song an eighties remix of the Two-little boys album
    which featured Rolf's best music and also some great cover versions
    of Max Bygraves songs (my favourite being I'm a Blue toothbrush, you're
    a Pink toothbrush, somehow it says everything about being a rebelious
    teenager without a toothbrush!).
    
    Mark

    
    The 'didgeridoo', is one of the hardest musical instruments to master.
    To play it, you have to be able to breath in through your nose, and out
    through your mouth, simultaneously. Rolf learnt this rare talent from
    an aborigine with a sinus condition. Try it for yourselves.
    
    The wobble-board, on the other hand, is quite easy to learn how to
    play. A crude, but effective wobble board can be constructed from the
    back of a cornflakes packet. Rolf invented the wobble board when he was
    trying to get one of his paintings to dry quickly.
    
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    Although I was half a sleep this morning (as usual), Listening to 
    Chrissy Wissy on Capital I'm sure I heard him mention that Rolf was
    bringin out a new trendy version of "Sunerise" with "Tie me kanger" on
    the B-side.  I could have been dreamin...
    
    Tig

    It's true!  I read it in Mixmag.

    Oh yes, I can just hear it now, Sunarise with that Manc groove......
    
    Should be an instant classic.
    
    Bob

    Yeah, get a few 'Oh yeah's' (aboriginal of course), put on a tribal
    backbeat, and you have the world's ears at your fingertips.
    
    		Andy.

    
    Not to mention the Rolling Stones style Woo Woos which can be done by a
    couple of dingoes.
    
    Tim
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    They won't use the Manc sound as backing - It'll be Techno bleeps and
    computer game noises!

    I thought they were going to use some Denny's rashers sizzling on
    the pan as background music...!!!

    Times must be hard for Rolf these days.. 

    I just saw him selling Toffee Crisps from an overcrowded kangaroo's pouch. 
    



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    No that was Rolf and his new group, he is so talented he can teach
    Kangaroos to play instruments.... times must be hard, never, he could
    always fall back on his stylophone playing if he needed to, I'm sure
    he'd make loadsamoney busking on street corners.
    
    Tim
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    The legend in his right  - while wobbling his way up the stairs to
    heaven has made it to number one (I think - I wonder if there is a
    later Ralph Harris topic.    Any takers?????
    
    
    Nick