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Disgraced former entertainer Rolf Harris dead at 93

The Philadelphia Inquirer 24 May 2023
An artist and musician who first earned fame in the 1950s with the top 10 hit novelty song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," Harris went on ...
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World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest, Festival returns

New Albany Gazette 24 May 2023
Anyone who enjoys ragtime, jazz, blues, honky-tonk, boogie or novelty songs is in for a good time as the 48th annual World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest and Festival returns Memorial Day weekend in Oxford and at the University of Mississippi. × This page requires Javascript ... Please enable it in your browser settings ... Newsletters ... .
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Inside the house where Rolf Harris died: How paedophile passed away at £5million Thames-side mansion ...

The Daily Mail 24 May 2023
A source told the Daily Star Sunday ... Harris moved back to Australia in 1959 and tried his hand as an actor, before inventing the wobbleboard - and used it in his song 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport'. He recorded more novelty music before moving back to England and began to socialise with stars such as The Beatles ... .
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Australian-born former entertainer Rolf Harris dead at 93

Gulf Daily News 23 May 2023
An artist and musician who first earned fame in the 1950s with the top 10 hit novelty song “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”, Harris went on to present prime-time TV shows mostly aimed at children ... His song "Two Little Boys" spent six weeks at number one in Britain, the last chart-topper of the 1960s and the first of the 1970s.
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Disgraced Australian-born former entertainer Rolf Harris dies aged 93

RNZ 23 May 2023
An artist and musician who first earned fame in the 1950s with the top 10 hit novelty song 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', Harris went on to present prime-time TV shows mostly aimed at children ... His song 'Two Little Boys' spent six weeks at number one in Britain, the last chart-topper of the 1960s and the first of the 1970s.
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Disgraced Australian-born former entertainer Rolf Harris dead at 93

Reuters 23 May 2023
An artist and musician who first earned fame in the 1950s with the top 10 hit novelty song “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”, Harris went on to present prime-time TV shows mostly aimed at children ... His song "Two Little Boys" spent six weeks at number one in Britain, the last chart-topper of the 1960s and the first of the 1970s.
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Rolf Harris death: The disgraced entertainer’s rise and fall

Yahoo Daily News 23 May 2023
Begins performing novelty songs at the Down Under club to audiences of expat Australians and New Zealanders, including “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport... Also that year, he provides commentary on the Eurovision Song Contest ... the 1903 song “Two Little Boys” about the American Civil War.
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We’ve Got A File On You: Rob Thomas

Stereogum 22 May 2023
Maybe every now and then we’d release a couple songs and just have a nice time touring together and just everybody going back and just reliving the last 30 years of music or whatever ... I had cover bands playing ’80s songs ... They had that song “Lump” and “Peaches.” They were kind of a novelty band.
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‘It’s Crazy. It’s Party." Inside the Tricky Politics of Eurovision During War.

Politico 20 May 2023
the Eurovision Song Contest ... The crowd had their favorites, of course, but they seemed to be celebrating every song ... Most of the songs in Eurovision are fun bops, emotional ballads or campy novelty acts ... Tvorchi represented Ukraine this year with “Heart of Steel,” a song inspired by steelworker’s resistance in Mariupol.
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Eurovision 2023: Who is UK star Mae Muller?

The Independent 13 May 2023
She talks to Isobel Lewis about novelty acts, ...
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Is THIS the ultimate Eurovision song? MailOnline asks ChatGPT to write the lyrics for a ...

The Daily Mail 12 May 2023
For its millions of fans, the Eurovision Song Contest is a showcase of the best pop tracks to come out of Europe and beyond ... Instead I wrote a song ... Part of this is that there is a limited range of lyrical topics covered, and are usually 'mother songs, home songs, nonsense or "novelty" songs, pseudo-nursery rhymes, laments for a lost girl'.
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Who will win Eurovision 2023? Scientists reveal the formula for the winning song – so ...

The Daily Mail 11 May 2023
With the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night, many Brits will be dusting off their Union Jack bunting for one more outing ... not only the dance types, the rigidity of whose pattern is understood, but also the "characters" such as mother songs, home songs, nonsense or "novelty" songs, pseudo-nursery rhymes, laments for a lost girl.'.
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The 20 maddest Eurovision moments… ever!

NME 11 May 2023
There is nothing quite like the Eurovision Song Contest, a show where anything goes and more is almost always more ... The low point came in 2007, when they sent comedy puppet act Dustin the Turkey with ‘Irelande Douze Points’, a crushingly unsubtle novelty song.
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A/E: Permission to skate in a buffalo herd

The Norman Transcript 05 May 2023
Another of Standridge’s inspirations for his show is a pair of pop songs. One is the 1965 novelty chestnut “You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd” by Oklahoma’s Roger Miller and Dire Strait’s “Skateaway” made popular in 1980 on MTV ... Naturally the two aforementioned songs along with “Buffalo Gals (Won’t You Come Out Tonight)” are incorporated ... .

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