My Boomerang Won't Come Back

[CRAZYASFUK1]

How times have changed. I can understand the nostalgic nature in which the song is placed in modern society. It's very insightful as a young person to see what was acceptable than and what's acceptable now. Just for interests sake and I'm assuming it was,This was a comedic parody in it's day correct?

[hgprt12]

Today the song might be regarded as politically incorrect as its subject is an Aborigine boy in the Outback who is none too bright. In the end he has to be told that if he wants his boomerang to come back he should first throw it. :(

[tcmag]

Daddy will be pleased!

[bilby53]

Good to see people recognising that this song is not about Australia as it was but a spoof of the times. I saw it live on TV a million years ago and loved it. It's something you only listen to every couple of years and I still get a chuckle out of it. Priceless.

[TheIrishfecker]

was the first record i ever bought. bloody great stuff

[Technotrucker57]

Brill......thanks for the upload.

[fraserkatie]

I loved this as a c hild , and we had this on a childrens tape of childrens songs! LOL! 

[984358]

ah the day's before the aborinals had a big stick up their arses and could take a joke

[19540071]

i think this song is so cool,,,,i play it for all my friends and they say i way out there,,but i like it i heard popie in the back round ,,,,,,wow...

[etc4ca]

Just heard this again on Brian Matthew's Radio Two show this morning. Absolute classic about a backless boomerang. "Good gracious, there goes a kangaroo!"

[staporinac]

I have this on CD!

[yogertlvr]

Dear lord, this was too Bleeding funny.... I heard this once on the Doctor Demento show .. LOL thanks for posting

[alneal100]

Thank God they didn't invent the boomerang grenade during WWII

[drunkonjive]

This songs reminds me when of when i was a small boy,I was given a small wooden boomarang as a present,anyway one day in the school playground i decided to show the other lads how to throw it, i threw it and it went quiet a distance i was even more impressed when it started coming back towards me, the problem was it came back at me like a rocket i thought no problem, missed the catch hit me smack between the eyes,crikey it di'nt half bloody hurt, the lads thought it was the funny though.

[dryliner65]

junior choice with ed stewart probably every weekend

[CookieCat94]

I have a boomerang one of my friends grandmother gave me as a gift

[ChiefSailor1948]

I have a boomerang with a book on how to throw it, and yes it does come back! Amazing but darn it, I can never hit what I'm throwing it at. The darn fuzzy tailed rats never sit where I'm throwing the darned thing. I guess I would go hungry if I had to depend on my ability to use that thing.

[norfolk611]

Mine wouldn't either. I threw it once, it hit the ground and broke.

[tcmag]

Love this!! I Had it a a child and played it on my Bright Orange "Portable" record-player so much, I wore it thorough!

PC Brigade: Get te Fuck!

[wasp27]

Haha, classic song! Love it! Political Correctness and the Fun Police be damned-lets have some fun!

[frankiehiyo]

I never even thought of this record being racist, then I clicked on to listen and read some of the stupid remarks. It really is the modern day so called doo-gooders who are causing the racial tensions. If he was to say blue in the face, the Smurfs would kick off. Maybe green, no! the Martians would start, and so on. He could have said White in the face then no one would have mentioned the word racist, funny that. What a stupidly sad world it is becoming. Great record though.

[2326038]

@frankiehiyo Very well worded and oh so true.

[CunninghamsGap]

Yeah this is a classic. Practiced till I was black in the face. Rolfe harris can let his abbos go loose Bruce. On the original tie me down. Fuck P.C

[CookieCat94]

you couldn't sing this these days

[Deathpro2295]

how can a boomerang take out a plane???

[Factnotfictionpeople]

@Deathpro2295 Its a very complicated formula, but it can be done - maybe I'll tell you one day.......

[RifleMarksman1]

@Deathpro2295 magic

[nettyonthenet63]

I saw Charlie Drake in Liverpool many years when I was a mere child. Memories...

[poohtubabe]

What is it with you backward retard spastic government robots to bring up Racism ITS A FUCKING SONG .End Of.

[7466309change]

they sold boomarangs toys for us to fool with.vaguly remmber it.

[MrLawman10]

i could just eat a charlie drake, with chips and mushrooms.

[steve161057]

Having just found this on you tube, I am really saddened that racism should be even thought about. The aborigines are a fantastic race and Charlie was ony celebrating you

[STANLEYCOURT]

It's funny. End of sports - sport.

[AMattyDevil]

MY GOD-DAMNED BOOMERANG WON'T COME BACK!

FUCK THE "Racism"

[LinuxManUK]

why did that kangaroo sound like Popeye ?

[AngeloNiklis]

@LinuxManUK

You've obviously never heard a kangaroo speak.

[Factnotfictionpeople]

@AngeloNiklis Only once - never managed to get that drunk again! LOL

[lonegeminielf2]

Aborignes have coroborees,not pow wows, but this is a real send up, tongue in cheek. They don't talk with an English accent either.Take it as a fun song.The chanting is more like Maori also.I am Aussie born with many Aborigine friends.

[avielMenter]

Ok, this has been bothering me: pow-wows are indigenous american, not australian aborigine

[Selvester10]

ahhaa i remeber doing a dance show when i was younger and the stage crew came on dressed in virtually nothing and did this, it was hillarious! especially the fact that the young boy singing was coming from the most matcho of the lot :P it scared my brother sooo much! i've never laughed so much!

[sunnymarky]

do they love this in Oz down under?

[Pigziggy]

the greatest song ever written

[fjbutch]

Great track, we are going to play this on our local radio statio today.during our retro head hour ...Blue fm 100.3.

[klm7858]

Oh, good gravy---I about died laughing hearing this again after so many years!!!! What a scream!!!! I'm SO glad you posted this!! :D

[mangiagatti85]

Still dedicated to Ricky Ponting & his ockers!

[THISREALLYBORESME]

Yeah Rolf Harris gets 2 little boys (dodgy at best), jake the peg (dodgy at best), but Charlies classic no one knows. Thanks RescoeZ for posting another piece of Charlies legacy, and it's as funny as the first time I heard it - many years ago.

[lcar4000]

Where I grew up (in Chicago), the radio station (WLS) played the song, but they dubbed "blue" over the "black in the face" line.

[fjbutch]

@lcar4000 That was sad...Don't you just love P.C. 

[bubs101able]

allways looked one of those types you'd not trust alone with your mum or misses lol !!!!

[jimincairns]

"Charles Drake...casual labourer of Weybridge"

heheheh!

[aubergine2c]

LOL! Grow a sense of humour, please!

[jmen4ever]

got this in my personal 45 collection, one of my faves!

[MDBag45]

Good luck making Kinkajou stew in Australia

[chrisdavid4026]

@21quandary this is not racist , its just you

[tigersami1]

...brings back memories from my childhood!! ♥♥

[mrhomerbojangles]

Racist !

Politically Correct !

Words that are too often used now a days.

What crap

[Wendy23726]

@mrhomerbojangles

I'm with you and I'm part aborogine 

[zefer14]

timless,

[honkydudeman]

for fucks sake you sad cunts ,,,...dont pull that racist card ,,,,..its twats like you that cause trouble,,,,.....when coloured people can use the "N",word and white people cant ?thats racist,,,....the pendulum as swung to far ?political correctness enforced by moronic idiots that know nowt about nowt ,,fukking bookworms +pen pushers GET A FUKKING GRIP ,+fight REAL RACISM,,...,,,...AMEN

[TheOtherRoger]

21quandry; Here in the colonies, the song was edited and "...practiced til I was BLACK in the face..." was changed to "...BLUE in the face...", i suppose to make it more politically correct. What a bollox! This version is better than the original airplay in that there were more sound effects. Also, there was a clever reference to "George Alfred Black" whom I assume was a seminal player in Australian politics some time ago.

Anyway, thanks RescoeZ, for a great memory rekindled!

[Gibberman900]

@TheOtherRoger You're very welcome, glad to have helped :-)

[lake40]

RIP charlie i grew up listening to this song it was a big number one hit here is australia in 1961

[gogetstuffed]

Racist undertones my ass. He was an Southern Londoner singing a funny song about aboriginals in Australia whom he had probably never seen or met. I grew up in the 60's in Oz listening to this and I still enjoy it. Cant' people just enjoy humour without reading their prejudices into everything....you owe me 14 chickens.....

[juxvma542]

If your boomerang won't come back then it's a stick.

[savage01100]

thats part of the appeal

[MumbaDude]

I absolutely loooove this song. We play it every year at our Aussie Pavilian during our HUGE multicultural festival. Our Canadian festival is one of the top 10 summer events in North America as stated by North American Bus Tour Companies. The kids all love the song and the big kids too.

You need to keep in mind when this song was written. What was said back in the day may not be seen as PC today. Ah! Stuff the PC stuff it's way too exaggerated. Can't say a darn thing anymore!

[694liam]

r.i.p charlie drake

[NCTaikoDrumboy]

Any aborigines who heard this one must have laughed themselves silly. It's fun to laugh at yourself. It's also healthy... not taking yourself too seriously and all that. Too bad there are too many in the world who don't... or worse... won't believe that.

[CatTheBratTCA]

This song was always played when I was growing up, My dad still has the single wow how time flies :)

[pw3uk]

Heavily sampled by Nurse With Wound on their Sylvie & Babs LP

[Thaxmead61]

Its nothing more than a song. Lighten up!

[genericgeorge]

My folks bought this when it came out, probably the year I was born. I still have the single with the pink Parlophone label. I wouldnt be surprised if George Marin produced this.

[vazon69]

I think this is a parody of Rolf Harris, more than anything. Like dancing naked in the garden when we were but infants, this is from innocent times, with no malice intended. Just enjoy it for the fun of it. It is what he intended, after all!

[Lonnyhaze]

Pretty Song!

[tez601]

nowt racist dickhead ye its just u bloody hell when this came out we had golliwogs blackboards get a life and enjoy the music or dont listen to it

[hotrocksboi]

@tez601 well said - i miss the gollywog on the marmalade - i was a member of the gollywog club when i was a kid

[ppaulmorris]

Loved it then. Still do. Grow up morons.

[joshgura]

this is racist against kangaroos :(

[ndogg20]

There's a name for a boomerang that won't come back...its called a STICK.

[wenglishsal]

@ndogg20 ... I was reading most of the comments as some people have atrocious language.. but your comment made me laugh out loud... 'Stick'.. jolly good fun what!.... :0)x

[ThEcAtScAmEbAcK]

do kangaroos going "do-o-o-oingg?" I highly doubt it but I'd love it if they did :D

[falconoilcompany]

Sorry 21 quandary, its just you mate. leave your over active PC at home and enjoy it for what it was, just a very good song.

[keywestredbeard]

Who was the Flying Doctor that he hit?

[tubbychubby1]

wat racist undertones ?

[tubbychubby1]

wat racisim r u talking about ?

[59DAVEMAC]

21quandary. You are overthinking... Why not just listen and enjoy the song, after all it is a comedy song. And a great song it is too....

Dave

[scoobyrlw]

I used to drive my mom nuts singing this one and others

[millwallpaul76]

this was when life was simple and no its not racist that was the why it was in those days innoncence!

[finkso]

Would any one like to contribute to a whip round i,m organising, it to raise funds to buy 21quandary a sense of humour man needs to get a life

[RescoeZ]

@21quandary It's not politically correct, but I wouldn't call it racist.

[21quandary]

@RescoeZ the only thing i find slightly iffy, and i may be overthinking this one, is the line "practised 'til i was black in the face" surely as an australian aborigini he's already pretty "black in the face" so is Mr. Drake subtly calling aboriginal people lazy?

As i said, i may be overthinking this one.

[universalradio]

@21quandary "Blue" in the face would be the expression - so he's probably referring to the fact that the boy was black.

[dogsgate]

@RescoeZ hahahahahahahhaahahhahha~~~~~



[BanditRingtail23]

@RescoeZ Screw political correctness. What has it ever done for us except put money in lawyers' pockets and make so many people miserable? A pox upon it, I say!

[Factnotfictionpeople]

@BanditRingtail23 Here-here!

[TheGreenle]

@21quandary RACIST YOU TOSSER? WHERE DO YOU LIVE. THIS WAS THE 1ST RECORD I BOUGHT WHEN I WAS 10 IN 1963. RACIST MY A***E, YOU TOSS POT!!!

RIP CHARLIE (THE WORKER) HELLO MY DARLINGS!!!!!!!!

[21quandary]

@TheGreenle Seriously, caps lock isn't that had to find! You seem rather defensive over the fact that a song written in the 60's has less than politically correct lyrics. Are you a closet racist? do you run around at night in a white hood? is that why you want to know where i live so you can put a burning cross in my front yard? i think you should see an anger therapist.

[21quandary]

@TheGreenle why call me a "tosser" and then put asterix's over "arse"? Arse is a much more socially acceptable word than tosser. may i also add, the caps lock key is never far away. For someone who claims to hail from the UK, you're english is atrocious.

[y00sta]

@21quandary racist one who races a lot get real son

[pernicketty]

@21quandary That was how most white Australians thought at the time. From what I read here it seems that a good many still do. The BBC had the Black & White Minstrel Show running until much later than this. In the late 1970s I remember going to an aboriginal pub in downtown Sydney. In the couple of hours I spent drinking there far and away the most popular song on the jukebox was "My Boomerang Won't Come Back". Times change and attitudes with them - for the better hopefully.

[keirfree]

@21quandary Yea yer a Fuck case Now Fuck off

[21quandary]

@keirfree You're english is just as bad, if not worse. It's interesting what you've done with the random placement of capital letters, it gives the whole piece lovely dynamics.

[universalradio]

@keirfree Actually, what you're using is poetic license. Nothing wrong with that.

[whatwouldmattdo]

@21quandary yeah "racist undertones" is a pretty stupid thing to say.. This attitude was commonplace, the status quo. Maybe "racial overtones" would have been an accurate thing to pick up.

[MoscowMaestro]

@21quandary It's just you.

[23vin850]

@21quandary It's just you !

[kevin9sc]

@21quandary - It was 1968 'ish - I don't think it was intentionally racist - a totally different era!

[Dragging1Canoe]

@21quandary

Like most songs by white people about another culture, it's just a string of steriotypes set to music.

[tuguybear]

@21quandary It doesn't sound disparaging of Aboriginals.Quite humorous really."Oh my gawd.....I've hit the flying Dr".Funny.

[lushysrobbiesangel]

@21quandary All i hear is a very funny song tht takes me back to my childhood !! Wen my best m8 used to play it to me lol !! I still laff now lol !!!!

[rockatommy]

@21quandary i think its just you! thats the trouble nowadays no one can say a thing without some twat thinking of a racist angle on everything.

[21quandary]

@rockatommy Is it because of teh colour of my skin?

[rockatommy]

@21quandary i dont know what colour skin you got,its the way we are brainwashed into being politically correct. you never hear white people saying 'is it cos i is white' just take the song as it is,humourous!!!!!! nothing more.

[cwocwoc]

@rockatommy

At the time this was recorded it was legal to shoot aborigines as fauna.

[cwocwoc]

@rockatommy

At the time this was recorded it was legal to shoot aborigines as fauna.

[Ceronomus]

@cwocwoc

Actually, no, it wasn't. Nice try. It was 11 years before they were given the right to vote though.

Great song, I've always loved it, lots of fun.

[ash2rach2002]

@21quandary . I'm sick to death of hearing this sort of nonsense !! People are being far too sensitive these days......""...racist undertones...."" =(my arse)

[21quandary]

@ash2rach2002 Now who's being too sensitive? I was making a rather benile comment, people seem to hear the word "racist" and get all jumped up trying to defend themselves and others as being far from racist. We all have prejudices towards race or otherwise, wether we like it or not.

[rafhenlow]

@21quandary Fun songs mate. Learn to laugh, politically correct people like you are ruining our lives. lighten up for crying out loud. I listened to this when I was a youngster, thought nothing of it then or know other than it was a fun song, same as Rolf's stuff.

[21quandary]

@rafhenlow You feel that a rather innoccous comment made in jest that was then blown way out of proportion is "ruining our lives". Wow, i have sympathy for you. Just wait until you finally pull your head out of your arse and look around you, then you will see the true things that are "ruining our lives"

[rafhenlow]

@21quandary If made in jest maybe you could have added the old LOL to the end, only it seems to echo some of the other drivel written about this innocouos song. I think you meant it.

[21quandary]

@rafhenlow well it didn't make me "LOL". I refuse to use any such language anyway.

Fine, if you think I meant it theres not much I can say to change your mind on the matter. I love it when complete strangers make assumptions about me, such a wonderful thing the anonymity of the internet really is. When a faceless name on a screen instantly knows your entire psyche and view of the world from some half arsed comments about a stupid song.

[rafhenlow]

@21quandary I don't seem to be the only one who thinks that you are a bit of an idiot with a sad outlook on life. A stupid comment on a song, which left you wide open to answers. If you cannot take it, don't leave comments. I have no idea or an oppinion about you whatsoever, but if you carry on with silly comments other people will, & have. So let us end this now. Bye, have a good life.

[Kennymac8251]

@21quandary Its just you and your warped racisi thinking.

[MDBag45]

@21quandary Stop trying to apply 21st century values to art forms (not that this is art), such as music, films, literature, etc., of 50 years ago. It doesn't work. For instance, "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Andy Griffith Show" had few or no black or Asian characters. How racist!

[TweekDash]

@21quandary what was your comment?

[21quandary]

@TweekDash A very lighthearted comment about the "racist" innuendo in this song that got blown way out of proportion!!

[symphynity]

@21quandary I thought an innuendo was an Italian suppository!!! lol

[garryentropy]

first song text I learned of by heart; and like lofemans comment they are still there 40 years later:)

[johncharlescavanagh]

think im doing the same its brill

[madbob5a]

I'm reliving my childhood, listening to these songs! Who sung : Three wheel on my wagon?:

[jimincairns]

@madbob5a It was The New Christy Minstrels', with Barry McGuire still singing with them. Would you believe it was written by Burt Bacharach??

[tomcs635]

My boomerang came back one time. I threw it against the sun...last I saw before it became dark was my boomerang....

[krankster26]

pure classic comedy god bless him

[Lytton333]

Good Ol' Charlie!!

[mick2cu]

God bless you Charlie.....gone but never forgotten

[nomiclas]

i like the popeye voice!just a great tune!

[210357tommy]

didnt know charlie had passed away.

how sad.

i have got a copy of him on dvd with jim davidson brilliant.

[a9r8p7e6g5g4i3o]

ATTENTION all "Mr. Pastry" connoisseurs: Does anyone have a clip of Charlie Drake's comic genius in performing a skit on Ed Sullivan's Show which I think dealt with an initiation to some fraternity? it involved Pastry's jumping about on the seats of chairs, and then downing champagne. Ed would repeatedly invite new guests to watch & Drake would obligingly repeat the skit, until other, STONGER intoxicants had to replace champagne

[relicz1]

thx for this me and my family used to listen to this back on old tape

[drpoxy]

Charlie Drake may be gone but he's certainly not forgotten. Thanks for posting this.

[BelleVue1969]

Anybody got Please Mr Custer" ?

[redredreds100]

it's on here, just type it in!!!!

[daveperk]

good grief, I lived in Oz forty years ago as a boy, I haven't heard this song in forty years and I still remember the words! "I shall very likely get bushwhacked"... heh heh

[TashkentFox]

I love this silly song.

[dagsbollox]

this brings back a few memories !!! u just made me smile with this 1 !!! just luv charlie drake, cheers,daddy will be pleased!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BeantownJim]

hahaha im american this is great hahaha

[loresamba]

Bella questa canzoncina !

[toby8stores]

o know this off by heart YAY :D o<--<

[fatkinson1954]

It's a great Australian silly song. Good for some great laughs.

[wooferdogs]

i had this on my fave album as a kid, was called all aboard...my chilhood in one lp, now play it to my 2 year old daughter...

[d4athv4der]

@wooferdogs

I had the same album and now can't find it anywhere for love or money!

[toby8stores]

great if u ask me worth dancing to my boomerang wont come back" funny isnt it

[motelcalifornia]

I am surprised they haven't sampled the beginning in hip hop music

LOL

[slider8585]

lol this song is awesome.

[gernumblies]

Just been on a cruise and the nighttime performers did this song in one of their shows. Awesome, had to look it up! :D 5*

[blobta12]

good old charlie drake takes me me back to my younger years great bloke

[blobta12]

Good old charlie drake takes me back some

[Diablo666Daemon666]

reminds me of the song "running bear"

[bourbonmatt]

Yep it was funny >>not as funny as I remember as a kid though..Would be considered politically incorrect these days..Whay do so many people take their comments so bloody seriously?? JUst enjoy it for what it s!!!!

Me..I'm a big disgrace to the white fella race!!!

[vexorism]

fake

[RescoeZ]

What's fake?

[RescoeZ]

You're an idiot.

[mancsmoveseast]

Got to agee,what's fake?

[SadeofDarkness]

@vexorism

what, in what context

[chepasty]

love this song... love me Catherine :'D

[TheLENNON25]

The background singer sounds like something John Lennon would do

[rufina41]

This is a great song,really funny.

[katholickunt]

Disturbing!

[XMIR10C]

Boom , juckawaleya