wicked awesome.... jesus christ i miss Australia. Good times and memories over there going on the piss with my mate and his old man ^_^. Thanks for the chuck
There is no doubting Rolf Harris's prodigious talent, but he has turned into a bit of a sook. The last few interviews I have seen him do have ended up with him bawling for one reason or another. Maybe that's why he hasn't been given a knighthood. He'll cry all the way through the ceremony.
This is an awesome song, reminds me of living in that beautiful Big Brown Land for ten years! I think about Australia every day! This song will be played when I leave this mortal coil!
@CrankCase08 Rolf Harris lives in Bray , we saw him in Maidenhead a couple of weeks ago , looked happy enough , He proberley looked miserable as he was looking at the crazy prices the Windsor farm likes to charge .
@Lancaster730 True. They're likely getting complaints from some hoity customers about too much riff-raff using the shop, so they put the prices up to keep them away.
Awesome video...took me right back to when I heard him sing it, when i was just a tiny kid. Thank you for the information on the song too...educational as well as entertaining!
I was born a Pom, but have been lucky enough to have lived in Oz now over 40 years. I must have been destined to be an Aussie from the beginning, because when I hear this song, and see images such as have been put together here, I feel as Aussie as you can get. I just feel it is so.
This makes my Chakra Point's burst out Man - Rolf Loved Ya since I was A child Mate You Aussie Beu't - Let's not about the culture that gave us mystical diggery doo's an such - great tune - agel-less - Skippy for UK Prime Minister - lol
Man, I had just ;about forgotten about this song and it used to be one of my favorites. Probably haven't heard it for almost 40 years. Thanks for the upload.
GOSH this brings back memories, 1) From when I first heard it in 1962, 2) my love of sun rises 3) to when I went to Uluru, and saw the sum rise on it in 2006. and my attempts to play the Diggerydo at a campsite near there! *SMILES*
I took my two daughters to see Rolf performing at Caesar's Palace in Luton, Bedfordshire, back in the mid-seventies. He played this song and was totally awesome!
@SuperJohnsuck You mean he hasn't been already? Shameful. The guy is a credit to his country and the Commonwealth as a whole. When I think of an honour like a knighthood I think 'What would the world be like if it were totally populated by this type of person?'. In Rolf's case it'd be a beautiful world, free for all and all as one. When I was a kid I always wanted him to be my Grandfather. A truly inspirational and honest man.
Loved Rolf since I was a kid, every time there is a program on TV with anything to do with Australia i'll be watching it. I am going to put a visit to Australia as one of the things to do on my Bucket list. What a wonderful country it is, and also I might add the wonderful people also.
@jawalsh57 Yes - listening to this makes my hair stand on end - in a good way. 1963 - RAF Woomera - when my Dad was so tall, strong & young. Wonderful memories.
I'm amazed out how well the Alice Cooper band stuck to the arrangement done by Rolf. I didn't even know that Rolf wrote this until just a few years ago. I thought Butler/Harris was a Motown group that the Coopers took the song from.
Aww I have his autograph and he sent me a letter when I sent one to him when I was 4. I was obsessed from 3-6 years old LOL! Brings back really good memories.
@gratedcheese100 I can't swear to it but I am pretty sure it is Rolf's cos it's in his style. If you have time watch the Stairway to Heaven sung by Rolf which I added a load of his paintings to
@Rikkyhardo His paintings make that little effort of Monet's that you have slipped into "Sun Arise" look a bit insipid. However, I am aware that all art is subjective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Thanks for this. Couldn't sleep and had vision of a kangaroo in my head but can't remember what book from my childhood it was from. That led to this song getting in my head!
thank you so very very much for posting this!!! it has taken many decades for me to find it and actually hear it again....i rememered it all these many years AND all the words...one of my all time favorites...
@jiveaces Yeh 'tis at that and you can buy them at Twister Ski Shop in Adelaide ... but make sure you ask for a blue knee support XL and you canna go wrong ;~)
Oddly, it was a hit in my town, Chicago! Rolf's appearances on U.S. TV were always inspiring. King of the wobble board, AND the song was done by Alice Cooper too!
In 2009 I visited Australia for the first time,Western Australia, and visited Wave Rock,look it up on google if you do not know it, I saw it at "Sunrise" just like this song ,and oh my it was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen after travelling through the bush and seeing the milky way at 1 am on the road to Wave Rock
This sound should be the national anthem of Australia, being from there, I can say it's at least a hundred percent better than the words "We are GIRT by sea". Nobody... NOBODY uses Girt anymore. Rolf Harris for Prime Minister of Australia.
@bazzatheblue - Mate, there are more forgotten English words than there are current ones. Language is a living thing. I read an article in the paper a few weeks ago where they listed some of the new words in the dictionary and some of the ones that have been ditched. Did you know that 'Gullible' isn't even in the Oxford dictionary any more?!
@bazzatheblue - A-ha! Someone who isn't gullible! I fell for that last line myself at work. That's where I got it from. Had everyone in hysterics when someone tried it out on me.
So many english words are under-used. Could you imagine what would go through some bank robbers minds if the police yelled out over the loudspeaker 'Come out with your hands up. We have you Girt.'
@69ssrszl1 Hi. I wouldn't say Brits are "hung up" on royalty - OK the press go a bit barmy and deferential! But she's our head of state - a bit like a president but entirely non-political and with no actual authority - royalty have (almost) nothing to do with the democratically elected British Government. It's a funny system, historical reasons. She can't stop the government intervening in stupid wars. Anyway, the painting Rolf did was really good. Peace and love.
When i was little i had a dansette record player and my dad gave me a few singles to play. well this was one of them ! Rolf sounded good at 33 45 & 78 rpm !
@RenettoRenetto I had a Dansette as well and I remember my first two records I was given by my dad, Up on the Roof by Kenny Lynch and Kansas City by Little Richard. I must admit that they were two extremes ofr styles
Alice Cooper (the band) did a kick ass version of this song on Love It To Death. In fact it wasn't until just a few years ago I found Rolf's original version.
This Song was taken from early Aboringinal tribal attack back in the early days of the Colonies, where many settlers were butcher'd and where kangeroos fed upon the rotting flesh !, it is a fact that is rarely mentioned in Australian History. Sir Rolf gives mention to filling all the hole's which infact were the Graves of the dead. Great Song !
@simoon0111 Not too sure about that one mate (no doubt that massacres happened on both sides) but this song is about sunrises and their effect on the landscape. The lyric is 'sun arise, filling all the hollows' as it does, and 'sun arise on the Kangaroo Paw' which is a pretty desert flower.
Your version does sound more interesting, I'm seing Monty Pythons Killer Rabbit sketch being played out with evil joeys. Deadly Skippys... Another story for the American tourists!!!
In the UK we all love Rolf, but we also love the Aborigines (so called). I always hoped, as a liberal Londoner who knows nothing at all, that this track was (hopefully) respectful...My (otherwise very right wing) loved the aboriginies, the native americans, and indeed any indiginess populations. I do too, albeit from a very left wing p.o.v.
@StevenMovieMaker7 No, Alice Cooper just did a cover of it. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant also did an awesome rendition of it on Andrew Denton's show when they were promoting their No Quarter album. Have a listen to it - it's on Youtube. :)
As for the 'sound at the end of each verse', I believe Sladedestiny is talking about the Jaw (or 'Jew's') Harp - an instrument that goes in the mouth, held by the teeth, and uses the cavity as a sounding-board/amplifier for the sound made by a prong (similar to a music box) you 'twang' with your finger. You change the pitch/tone by moving your lips.
My first album i owned, a gift from my Dad. I listened to it non stop. Favourite songs this Carabara Wiracana, his cover of I've been everywhere, and of course Tie me Kangaroo Down..
At the time this was recorded they had no-one who could play didge.So the sound was created by several double bass players using bows. In his biography Rolf says that the players said it was the most boring session they had ever done.
Hi, i've had a bambo Dideridoo for a while and now ungraded to a larger Ash built one. Im slowly but steadily getting to grips with the circular breathing. What a great sound! What makes this sound? a human's respiratory effort and a hollow length of wood. So simple but so important. To me the sound is very earthy. The earth is where we come from and will surely return. Not for a while yet i hope. The crispy sound of them rain sticks do the trick as well. Great Great Great.
@Blabloo72 I thought Aussies lost the right to be Knighted back in 1901? We can still be made members of the order of whatever, but I really thought Aussies can't be knighted. If i'm wrong, tell me, I have a short list - Steve, Hugh and Joan .
@verticalsmurf Australians can still be made Knights as they are in the Commonwealth and the Queen is their head of state that's why Rolf Harris was able to be made into one. If Rolf Harris had been American it would not have been possible as the USA is not in the Commonwealth. If Australia broke away from Great Britain and became a republic then we could not make Aussies into Knights anymore. (Hope this helps!)
@verticalsmurf John Monash was Kingihted on the field by King Geogre, the first Commander knighted with such honor, in over 200 years.. in August 1917. Thats just one example of Australians Knighted since Federation through out the 20th Century, I beliebe such titles are able to be bestowed upon any Commonwealth Citizen.
This song is an excellent rendition of traditional Australian Aboriginal sounds. I seen Rolf do this live many years ago in my home town in West Australia - he plays a brilliant didgeridoo and a number of other instruments. He is a naturalist, artist, musician and writer. Watching him live create paintings with a 4 inch paint brush is amazing. He is the most extraordinary talent i have ever seen. Have a listen, Letter to Narelle; Jimmy My Boy; War Canoe & Six White Boomers - classics.
I first heard this song on the BBC World Service on a music show in the early 1990s and thought it was terrific! I figured it was done with Aboriginal instruments and that is so cool. Also love the harmony. I've heard it enough that I can do any of the voices. This would be a great song for pre-schoolers (with adult help, of course) for a spring presentation.
wow i loved this song ever since i heard alice coopers love it to death,but i thought it was alices song. apparently not.you do learn something new every day. great version by the way . ty 4 posting it
is it just me or did alice cooper do a cover on this song on his love it to death album some of the lyrics are different so i can't work out if he used this song as a template or just covered it a responce from anyone who knows the answer would be great
Thanks for sharing lombmusic07 - You must have second sight. I just sent a Friend a clip of Rolf and his Didgereedoo. I was weaned on this Mans TV programmes - A very under rated Artist too.
Loved this song since I saw a cartoon on HBO a long time ago.
seanmcclure 1 day ago
love this song
ollie9012 2 weeks ago
sum gudd shizz Aha
DICKIEMONSTER 2 weeks ago
Thank you so much for the background; I've loved this song for decades.
sonyahannah 4 weeks ago
HAHAHAHA!!! Wicked pic of you and the lil hat, man xD. SO you!
thefidlerontheroof 1 month ago
wicked awesome.... jesus christ i miss Australia. Good times and memories over there going on the piss with my mate and his old man ^_^. Thanks for the chuck
thefidlerontheroof 1 month ago
Alice Cooper covered this on the album "Love IT To Death".
DJDeepStrut77 1 month ago
Thats it! Ive has enough! Im moving back to Austrailia!
Callum0907 2 months ago
I love this man.
KelzRoze 2 months ago
There is no doubting Rolf Harris's prodigious talent, but he has turned into a bit of a sook. The last few interviews I have seen him do have ended up with him bawling for one reason or another. Maybe that's why he hasn't been given a knighthood. He'll cry all the way through the ceremony.
gratedcheese100 2 months ago
led zeppelin brought me here lol
RumbleFiish 2 months ago
i love rolfffffyyyyyy <3
TheLinka1986 2 months ago
This is the bollocks.
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This is an awesome song, reminds me of living in that beautiful Big Brown Land for ten years! I think about Australia every day! This song will be played when I leave this mortal coil!
brooky766 2 months ago
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I saw him shopping at the royal farm shop in Windsor yesterday (4 Oct 2011). God he looked a miserable git.
CrankCase08 2 months ago
@CrankCase08 If your a red blooded male your gonna look a miserable git if you have to go shopping.
Like this if yer a fella and hates ffing shopping
Rikkyhardo 2 months ago 21
@Rikkyhardo That is true.
CrankCase08 1 month ago
@CrankCase08 so what he as more money than you :)
transitcoffin 2 months ago
@transitcoffin That's all that matters is it? You fuckwit.
CrankCase08 2 months ago
@CrankCase08 i would love to go home 1 day
ethan123900 2 months ago
@ethan123900 What?
CrankCase08 2 months ago
@CrankCase08 Rolf Harris lives in Bray , we saw him in Maidenhead a couple of weeks ago , looked happy enough , He proberley looked miserable as he was looking at the crazy prices the Windsor farm likes to charge .
Lancaster730 1 month ago
@Lancaster730 True. They're likely getting complaints from some hoity customers about too much riff-raff using the shop, so they put the prices up to keep them away.
CrankCase08 1 month ago
This song really makes me miss living in Austrailia.
Callum0907 2 months ago
yea sir Rolf Harris now the man is a legend and still going strong at 81.
tc030564 3 months ago
Awesome video...took me right back to when I heard him sing it, when i was just a tiny kid. Thank you for the information on the song too...educational as well as entertaining!
Stevetaylor099 3 months ago
fucking brilliant
BadEggCymru 3 months ago
I was born a Pom, but have been lucky enough to have lived in Oz now over 40 years. I must have been destined to be an Aussie from the beginning, because when I hear this song, and see images such as have been put together here, I feel as Aussie as you can get. I just feel it is so.
sciron60 3 months ago
How can 14 people dislike Rolf Harris ¬_¬
jonnybHKG1989 3 months ago
My favorite...Hair Oil on My Ears!!!
momthra 3 months ago
@momthra I've been asked to do that one before ... I'll havta get me thinking hat on (the blue one maybe) lol
Rikkyhardo 3 months ago
Have a listen to Jimmy Page & Robert Plant's version of this song. It's fantastic! :)
fatpizzaman 4 months ago
I remember buying this single the first time out, before it was a hit ..great stuff cobber!
knibscratch 5 months ago
im dancing to this tomorrow :)
deltoraquestprincess 5 months ago
This makes my Chakra Point's burst out Man - Rolf Loved Ya since I was A child Mate You Aussie Beu't - Let's not about the culture that gave us mystical diggery doo's an such - great tune - agel-less - Skippy for UK Prime Minister - lol
pnn1567 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you want to kiss Edgar Wright's beard!
YourMumsBottom 5 months ago 2
Man, I had just ;about forgotten about this song and it used to be one of my favorites. Probably haven't heard it for almost 40 years. Thanks for the upload.
thatpageguy1 5 months ago
GOSH this brings back memories, 1) From when I first heard it in 1962, 2) my love of sun rises 3) to when I went to Uluru, and saw the sum rise on it in 2006. and my attempts to play the Diggerydo at a campsite near there! *SMILES*
Rolf Harris is an incredibly artistic man.
philcovers 6 months ago
I took my two daughters to see Rolf performing at Caesar's Palace in Luton, Bedfordshire, back in the mid-seventies. He played this song and was totally awesome!
07476870 6 months ago
Mr. Rolf Harris.
Thanks.
helltopay1 6 months ago
used to listen to this as a kid with our old LP stereo & a set of GIGANTIC heavy headphones, the musical arrangements I love!! Thanks for memories
1970brenz 6 months ago
FAB
sandi43able 7 months ago
I love rolf
Bayleylovestosing1 7 months ago
at last some1 agrees bin trying 2 start a capaign 2 get rolf knighted any1 else interested
SuperJohnsuck 7 months ago 19
@SuperJohnsuck I guess loads of people would be interested ... it's worth googling to see if some one has started a petition up.
Rikkyhardo 7 months ago 3
@SuperJohnsuck You mean he hasn't been already? Shameful. The guy is a credit to his country and the Commonwealth as a whole. When I think of an honour like a knighthood I think 'What would the world be like if it were totally populated by this type of person?'. In Rolf's case it'd be a beautiful world, free for all and all as one. When I was a kid I always wanted him to be my Grandfather. A truly inspirational and honest man.
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Such a powerful song.
wesmatron 7 months ago
Loved Rolf since I was a kid, every time there is a program on TV with anything to do with Australia i'll be watching it. I am going to put a visit to Australia as one of the things to do on my Bucket list. What a wonderful country it is, and also I might add the wonderful people also.
jawalsh57 7 months ago
@jawalsh57 Yes - listening to this makes my hair stand on end - in a good way. 1963 - RAF Woomera - when my Dad was so tall, strong & young. Wonderful memories.
BadcatV 6 months ago
Always loved Rolf but i only just realized how many hits he's had. Great songs and all such unobvious brilliant special songs. Gone on Rolf
MegaGum1 7 months ago
I grew up with Rolf in the 1960's ... Love to you all.
AliensUFOsProof 7 months ago
@AliensUFOsProof We're all luving ya back
Rikkyhardo 7 months ago
lolve this song
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Gosh this brings back memories! I love your slide show, and thought the "kangaroo paws" were cute!
PuzzlEdd1 8 months ago
Gosh this brings back memories! I love your slide show, and thought the "kangaroo paws" were cute!
PuzzlEdd1 8 months ago
Gosh this brings back memories! I love your slide show, and thought the "kangaroo paws" were cute!
PuzzlEdd1 8 months ago
They should play this to the ISS each morning.
zionravescene 8 months ago
Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream...
Taylor3978AD 8 months ago
I'm amazed out how well the Alice Cooper band stuck to the arrangement done by Rolf. I didn't even know that Rolf wrote this until just a few years ago. I thought Butler/Harris was a Motown group that the Coopers took the song from.
GonzoGuyy 8 months ago
Lol with Rolf Harris?
TRUEBL0X2 9 months ago
@TRUEBL0X2 Sadly yes lol, I don't know why, I was a strange child lol. x
Gothicgizzmo 9 months ago
Aww I have his autograph and he sent me a letter when I sent one to him when I was 4. I was obsessed from 3-6 years old LOL! Brings back really good memories.
Gothicgizzmo 10 months ago
I love this song! What a great way to wake up! Thanks Django!
KimiAvary 10 months ago
definatly prefure alice coopers version (sorry rolf!)
TheIronfishy 10 months ago
This is my favourite Rolf song and thanks so much RIKKYHARDO for the excellent video clip that goes with it. I will definitely watch this again.
bigfoot3108 10 months ago
Are the two kookaburras depicted at 1.20 one of Rolf's paintings or is that a photograph?
gratedcheese100 10 months ago
@gratedcheese100 I can't swear to it but I am pretty sure it is Rolf's cos it's in his style. If you have time watch the Stairway to Heaven sung by Rolf which I added a load of his paintings to
Rikkyhardo 10 months ago
@Rikkyhardo His paintings make that little effort of Monet's that you have slipped into "Sun Arise" look a bit insipid. However, I am aware that all art is subjective and beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
gratedcheese100 10 months ago
@gratedcheese100 That sir, is a painting.
TheTunnelTube 6 months ago
I have never heard this song before......EPIC thanks for sharing.
kyringe 10 months ago
oh my it reminds me SO MUCH of The Dreaming by KB...
Sharmilka 11 months ago
Maybe this should be re-released as a charity single in aid of the recent Aussie floods/cyclones/bush fires?
TheBabyImp 11 months ago
Thanks for this. Couldn't sleep and had vision of a kangaroo in my head but can't remember what book from my childhood it was from. That led to this song getting in my head!
TheBabyImp 11 months ago
11 people gave this a thumbs down......guess they like to sleep late....
HippieJimi 11 months ago
thank you so very very much for posting this!!! it has taken many decades for me to find it and actually hear it again....i rememered it all these many years AND all the words...one of my all time favorites...
bigcairnkate 11 months ago
the shot at 2:13, is that an authentic aboriginal ski hat?
jiveaces 1 year ago
@jiveaces Yeh 'tis at that and you can buy them at Twister Ski Shop in Adelaide ... but make sure you ask for a blue knee support XL and you canna go wrong ;~)
Rikkyhardo 11 months ago
Oddly, it was a hit in my town, Chicago! Rolf's appearances on U.S. TV were always inspiring. King of the wobble board, AND the song was done by Alice Cooper too!
909chuck 1 year ago
In 2009 I visited Australia for the first time,Western Australia, and visited Wave Rock,look it up on google if you do not know it, I saw it at "Sunrise" just like this song ,and oh my it was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen after travelling through the bush and seeing the milky way at 1 am on the road to Wave Rock
billrink 1 year ago
@billrink Ayers Rock.
fizzylogik 10 months ago
this man is a legend
bobby505050 1 year ago
this man is a legend
bobby505050 1 year ago
thats a fukin huge spliff
solpower1111 1 year ago
This sound should be the national anthem of Australia, being from there, I can say it's at least a hundred percent better than the words "We are GIRT by sea". Nobody... NOBODY uses Girt anymore. Rolf Harris for Prime Minister of Australia.
Sabbatharian 1 year ago 2
@Sabbatharian what does "girt"mean?
bazzatheblue 1 year ago
@bazzatheblue suround
ilikevanillacoke 1 year ago
@bazzatheblue Girt means surrounded.
Sabbatharian 1 year ago
@Sabbatharian ,is it an English word?I can`t say i have heard it before.
bazzatheblue 1 year ago
@bazzatheblue - Mate, there are more forgotten English words than there are current ones. Language is a living thing. I read an article in the paper a few weeks ago where they listed some of the new words in the dictionary and some of the ones that have been ditched. Did you know that 'Gullible' isn't even in the Oxford dictionary any more?!
verticalsmurf 4 months ago
@verticalsmurf i`ll take your word on that last line. I like "girt " though it sounds alright.
bazzatheblue 4 months ago
@bazzatheblue - A-ha! Someone who isn't gullible! I fell for that last line myself at work. That's where I got it from. Had everyone in hysterics when someone tried it out on me.
So many english words are under-used. Could you imagine what would go through some bank robbers minds if the police yelled out over the loudspeaker 'Come out with your hands up. We have you Girt.'
And yes, I stole that line from someone else.
verticalsmurf 4 months ago
@bazzatheblue I guess girt comes from girth
Rikkyhardo 4 months ago
This song should be an anthem of Australia
Konrad4183 1 year ago 3
THE KING OF THE DIDGERIDOOS
hop2329 1 year ago
if you have children which I am an old one Bruddah IZ
susanaf5 1 year ago
Rolf is a god!
afterlee 1 year ago
Boooeeringggrrooorororoingringoringorooooi
MustachioEdd 1 year ago
@MustachioEdd - aaah, I was wondering how that was spelt...
verticalsmurf 4 months ago
He did the best portrait of the Queen ever. She just seems really alive in that painting.
hallstewart 1 year ago
@hallstewart Why are the British hung up on "ROYALTY" that Government has made misery all over the world.
69ssrszl1 7 months ago
@69ssrszl1 Hi. I wouldn't say Brits are "hung up" on royalty - OK the press go a bit barmy and deferential! But she's our head of state - a bit like a president but entirely non-political and with no actual authority - royalty have (almost) nothing to do with the democratically elected British Government. It's a funny system, historical reasons. She can't stop the government intervening in stupid wars. Anyway, the painting Rolf did was really good. Peace and love.
hallstewart 7 months ago
I half expect ~Paul Hogan to pop up halfway thru the video.....
Thanks for posting
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wweglenwwe 1 year ago
Above anything else this calms my baby daughter. Thanks for putting it up I play it out & singalong with her every morning. x
videvideooo 1 year ago 4
@videvideooo Glad to be of help mate ,,, I love singing along with this, it always makes me feel good
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LorettaBiggs 1 year ago
When i was little i had a dansette record player and my dad gave me a few singles to play. well this was one of them ! Rolf sounded good at 33 45 & 78 rpm !
RenettoRenetto 1 year ago 3
@RenettoRenetto I had a Dansette as well and I remember my first two records I was given by my dad, Up on the Roof by Kenny Lynch and Kansas City by Little Richard. I must admit that they were two extremes ofr styles
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DesgWarrtw 1 year ago
Good old Rolf ,end of
helltopay1 1 year ago
my grandpa has this in mint condition original its amazin
derpshot 1 year ago
Just an amazing and evocative song, I love this so much.
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
well i have seen rolf in concert in penrith rsl 1988 and his music with a didgeridoo is real.
MrKlufty 1 year ago
if you don,t like rolf you have no heart
xxkil 1 year ago
@xxkil Spot on
helltopay1 1 year ago
Good Question..why has he not been knighted yet??????
378Daniel 1 year ago
Alice Cooper (the band) did a kick ass version of this song on Love It To Death. In fact it wasn't until just a few years ago I found Rolf's original version.
GonzoGuyy 1 year ago
this would make a great sound track to a australian nam war film
willobi 1 year ago
This Song was taken from early Aboringinal tribal attack back in the early days of the Colonies, where many settlers were butcher'd and where kangeroos fed upon the rotting flesh !, it is a fact that is rarely mentioned in Australian History. Sir Rolf gives mention to filling all the hole's which infact were the Graves of the dead. Great Song !
simoon0111 1 year ago
@simoon0111 Not too sure about that one mate (no doubt that massacres happened on both sides) but this song is about sunrises and their effect on the landscape. The lyric is 'sun arise, filling all the hollows' as it does, and 'sun arise on the Kangaroo Paw' which is a pretty desert flower.
Your version does sound more interesting, I'm seing Monty Pythons Killer Rabbit sketch being played out with evil joeys. Deadly Skippys... Another story for the American tourists!!!
verticalsmurf 1 year ago
cool
BrentonConsulting 1 year ago
I love this song.
seanlavegan 1 year ago
In the UK we all love Rolf, but we also love the Aborigines (so called). I always hoped, as a liberal Londoner who knows nothing at all, that this track was (hopefully) respectful...My (otherwise very right wing) loved the aboriginies, the native americans, and indeed any indiginess populations. I do too, albeit from a very left wing p.o.v.
matthewmaus 1 year ago
where's johnny a day
melbea03 1 year ago
hehehe the queen looks evil in the portrait
daftdader45678 1 year ago
isnt the orriginal from alice cooper?
StevenMovieMaker7 1 year ago
@StevenMovieMaker7 No, Alice Cooper just did a cover of it. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant also did an awesome rendition of it on Andrew Denton's show when they were promoting their No Quarter album. Have a listen to it - it's on Youtube. :)
fatpizzaman 1 year ago
one of his best .
mykindofmuzic 1 year ago
dis is ma fav song
JacksamAG3NT 1 year ago
Good 'ol Rolf.
helltopay1 1 year ago
nice one Rolf
charliechicpea 1 year ago
Nice vid - matches the song perfectly.
As for the 'sound at the end of each verse', I believe Sladedestiny is talking about the Jaw (or 'Jew's') Harp - an instrument that goes in the mouth, held by the teeth, and uses the cavity as a sounding-board/amplifier for the sound made by a prong (similar to a music box) you 'twang' with your finger. You change the pitch/tone by moving your lips.
cr00sum 1 year ago
takes you back a while but lovely xx
forestflower48 1 year ago
My first album i owned, a gift from my Dad. I listened to it non stop. Favourite songs this Carabara Wiracana, his cover of I've been everywhere, and of course Tie me Kangaroo Down..
francisjpbradford 1 year ago
a much loved song from my childhood too
gothboy2k6 1 year ago
At the time this was recorded they had no-one who could play didge.So the sound was created by several double bass players using bows. In his biography Rolf says that the players said it was the most boring session they had ever done.
Sladedestiny 1 year ago
@Sladedestiny but what is the mmnnyyynnngggggggnnnnyyyyymmmmm sound at the end of each verse? That don't sound like double bass's.
Thanks for the info mate.
Rikkyhardo 1 year ago
@Rikkyhardo Who cares ?
rollingdominoesman 1 year ago
@Rikkyhardo
The mmnnyyynnngggggggnnnnyyyyymmmmm sounds likes Rolfs voice mixed to me. That's what I've always presumed it to be.
clsleamington 1 year ago
@Rikkyhardo That's his voice
JamesGod08 1 year ago
@JamesGod08 Just had a listen ... You're right!
Rikkyhardo 1 year ago
@Rikkyhardo That's Rolf Harris himself.
Fizzyskull 1 year ago
@Fizzyskull ... like I just said to JamesGod08 ... you're right
Rikkyhardo 1 year ago
@Rikkyhardo That sound is made by a jew's harp. A harp shaped 'instrument' played with the mouth.
AllisonUys1 1 year ago
DIDERIDOO FOR SALE SOON
hop2329 1 year ago
He's a nice man
MrRedcap999 1 year ago
I listen to this and I am taken straight back to the outback of Australia, which is a long way from Birmingham England!
tony74741 1 year ago
@tony74741 spent a year in Brisbane. West London now :-)
MrRedcap999 1 year ago
lov this song
legoblaneyfrazz179 1 year ago
This song puts me on top of a hill under a gum, everytime. I don't even try, just shut my eyes. Such an evocative, hypnotic sort of tune.
morningstomper123 1 year ago
rolf harris is a legand and not got a bad bone in him
1979jondam 1 year ago
Hi, i've had a bambo Dideridoo for a while and now ungraded to a larger Ash built one. Im slowly but steadily getting to grips with the circular breathing. What a great sound! What makes this sound? a human's respiratory effort and a hollow length of wood. So simple but so important. To me the sound is very earthy. The earth is where we come from and will surely return. Not for a while yet i hope. The crispy sound of them rain sticks do the trick as well. Great Great Great.
MrJenoptem 1 year ago
Great - thank you for posting. That song has a great 'feel good' factor. :-)
MrJenoptem 1 year ago
It could well be due to the Aboriginal influence and instruments MrJenoptem
It has always been up there with my big time favourites ... Stones, Beatles, Hendrix, Who and all the other ones from the sixties
Rikkyhardo 1 year ago 2
Come on, make him a Sir already, Rolf has earned it!
verticalsmurf 1 year ago 33
@verticalsmurf maybe now cons and Libs have got into power it might just come about
Rikkyhardo 1 year ago
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@Rikkyhardo - maybe now cons and Libs have got into power - where?
verticalsmurf 1 year ago
@verticalsmurf tell you what there are many Englishmen less deserve a knighthood than him!!! by far!
GERMANOPHILE 1 year ago
@GERMANOPHILE dont give it to aussies
lukepaul72 1 year ago
@verticalsmurf Not sure when you posted this but he has been made a Knight already - and rightfully so too - Rolf Harris is superb.
Blabloo72 1 year ago
@Blabloo72 I thought Aussies lost the right to be Knighted back in 1901? We can still be made members of the order of whatever, but I really thought Aussies can't be knighted. If i'm wrong, tell me, I have a short list - Steve, Hugh and Joan .
verticalsmurf 1 year ago
@verticalsmurf Australians can still be made Knights as they are in the Commonwealth and the Queen is their head of state that's why Rolf Harris was able to be made into one. If Rolf Harris had been American it would not have been possible as the USA is not in the Commonwealth. If Australia broke away from Great Britain and became a republic then we could not make Aussies into Knights anymore. (Hope this helps!)
Blabloo72 1 year ago
@Blabloo72 Being knighted would mean nothing to us, war or song.
ozzyguy67 1 year ago
@verticalsmurf John Monash was Kingihted on the field by King Geogre, the first Commander knighted with such honor, in over 200 years.. in August 1917. Thats just one example of Australians Knighted since Federation through out the 20th Century, I beliebe such titles are able to be bestowed upon any Commonwealth Citizen.
Apis4 1 year ago
@verticalsmurf Agree
TZEITEL10 1 year ago
Thank you, what a great song, brings back many memories from my youth. (Sir) Rolf Harris me thinks.
ozzyowen 1 year ago
@ozzyowen
Let's hope so
Rikkyhardo 1 year ago
This song is an excellent rendition of traditional Australian Aboriginal sounds. I seen Rolf do this live many years ago in my home town in West Australia - he plays a brilliant didgeridoo and a number of other instruments. He is a naturalist, artist, musician and writer. Watching him live create paintings with a 4 inch paint brush is amazing. He is the most extraordinary talent i have ever seen. Have a listen, Letter to Narelle; Jimmy My Boy; War Canoe & Six White Boomers - classics.
samcashmooney 1 year ago
LOVE IT 4EVER THANK U & LOVE & LIGHT FROM THE SUN ~*~
nightgrooveruk 1 year ago
bring back rolf - not enough in the world - go on my son
thegazzamataz 1 year ago 2
Bev you have to much time on your hands
ClaireDeBear25 1 year ago
what a beautiful song
cretinbob 1 year ago
I first heard this song on the BBC World Service on a music show in the early 1990s and thought it was terrific! I figured it was done with Aboriginal instruments and that is so cool. Also love the harmony. I've heard it enough that I can do any of the voices. This would be a great song for pre-schoolers (with adult help, of course) for a spring presentation.
entices1 1 year ago
cool video ...... great music !!!!!!!!!
lwilliams1968 1 year ago
I agree, IT IS about time Rolf was knighted, I think he has duel citizenship (Aussie and Brit) but either way he is entitled and deserves it.
Whitbywatcher 1 year ago 2
Christ Rolf was quite handsome in his youth, great song too
Cloud6556 1 year ago
wow i loved this song ever since i heard alice coopers love it to death,but i thought it was alices song. apparently not.you do learn something new every day. great version by the way . ty 4 posting it
oznalice 1 year ago
is it just me or did alice cooper do a cover on this song on his love it to death album some of the lyrics are different so i can't work out if he used this song as a template or just covered it a responce from anyone who knows the answer would be great
forsakendragon91 1 year ago
the Didgeredoo sounds are mostly his own mouth noise.He specialised in rythym from his own jaws type sounds
C906070 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing lombmusic07 - You must have second sight. I just sent a Friend a clip of Rolf and his Didgereedoo. I was weaned on this Mans TV programmes - A very under rated Artist too.
rockchick80s 1 year ago