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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
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  • Gramophone record
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  • Columbia Graphophone Company singles
  • Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles
  • 1963 singles
  • Novelty songs
  • 1957 songs
  • Children's songs
  • Australian country music songs
  • Rolf Harris songs
  • Culture in Western Australia
  • Songs written by Rolf Harris
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  • %22Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport%22 is a song written by Australian singer Rolf Harris in 1957 which became a hit across the world in the 1960s in two recordings (1960 in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom for the original, and 1963 with a re-recording of his song in the United States). Inspired by Harry Belafonte's calypsos, it is about an Australian stockman on his deathbed. The song is one of the best-known and most successful Australian songs.Harris originally offered four unknown Australian backing musicians 10% of the royalties for the song in 1960, but they decided to take a recording fee of £28 among them because they thought the song would be a flop.The recording peaked at No. 1 in the Australian charts and was a Top 10 hit in the UK in 1960. In 1963 Harris re-recorded the song in the UK with George Martin as producer and this remake of the song reached No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent three weeks atop the easy listening chart in 1963. Harris re-recorded his song a second time along with The Wiggles in 2000 with the introductory verse and the verse mentioning the stockman's death omitted. It is still popular today as a children's song.The distinctive sound of Harris's original recording was achieved by the use of an instrument of his own design called the %22wobble board%22 —a two-by-three-foot piece of hardboard Masonite.
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  • Rolf Harris
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  • GBAYE6000076
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  • PT162.53494331S
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  • 211023
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  • 3105927
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  • english
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  • Epic Records
  • Columbia Graphophone Company
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  • 1960
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  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
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