"March, remaining there for two weeks. After a twelve-week run, the song left the US top 40 on 23 May. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) ""Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"" is a popular song by ""one-hit wonder"" Edison Lighthouse. The single reached the number one spot on the UK Singles Chart on the week ending on 31 January 1970, where it remained for a total of five weeks. It also became the first number one single of the 1970s (not counting Rolf Harris' ""Two Little Boys"" which was a holdover from 1969). ""Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"""
"Sun Arise ""Sun Arise"" is the fourth single released by Australian singer-songwriter Rolf Harris. Released in January 1961 in Australia and October 1962 in the UK, it was Harris' third charting hit in Australia (following ""The Big Black Hat"" in 1960) and second in the UK (following ""Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"" also 1960). Unlike his early chart hits, ""Sun Arise"" was not a comedy record, but came within the genre of world music with its didgeridoo-inspired sound. The song was written with fellow Western Australian Harry Butler, a naturalist later known for his television show ""In the Wild"". After"
"an eventual release in late October 1960, following copyright discussions. It became the first song to enter the new Record Retailer charts at no.1 - later adopted as the UK Singles Chart. During an eight-week run at the top, Elvis held off strong competition from Shirley Bassey (""As Long as He Needs Me"") and The Drifters (""Save the Last Dance for Me""). Eventually, one week before Christmas, he was deposed by Cliff Richard and the Shadows' ""I Love You"". Elvis dropped to no.2 and would leave the top 10 as ""Are You Lonesome Tonight?"" began its ascent to no.1. After"
"Count On It,"" the B-side to the 1965 Top 10 hit ""Message Understood,"" and then a new song entitled ""No Moon."" Next comes ""Long Walk Home"" (previously used as the B-side to the 1966 single ""Run""), and then a brand new recording of ""I'd Be Far Better Off Without You,"" the original version of which had been an A-side for a short time in 1964 before being switched to B-side in favour of ""Girl Don't Come."" The ""Puppet on a String"" album finishes with ""Had A Dream Last Night,"" the only Andrews song performed on The Rolf Harris show as"
"Harris expressed regret about the racist nature of the original lyrics. Rolf Harris performed the song during the Opening Ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with a special verse of lyrics written for the event; they are as follows: Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport ""Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"" is a song written by Australian singer Rolf Harris in 1957 which became a hit around 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"
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport ""Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"" is a song written by Australian singer Rolf Harris in 1957 which became a hit around 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"
"songs: Dusty's ""Pub With No Beer"" (1957) and Williamson's ""Old Man Emu"" (1970). Dusty's hit was the first Australian single to reach the international pop charts. It begins with mock profundity: Williamson was influenced by Australian folk-singer, artist and broadcaster Rolf Harris and his novelty hit ""Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport"". Harris built an extraordinarily successful career in Britain as a broadcaster and entertainer. ""Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport"" is one of his many Australian themed comic hits and tells the sorry tale of a dying stockmen instructing his comrades on what to do upon his passing: Popular novelty hits"
"BBC radio show in December 1963. Harris changed the original lyrics to create a version that was specially written for the Beatles. Harris was the presenter of ""Hi There"" and ""Hey Presto it's Rolf"" in 1964. By the time ""The Rolf Harris Show"" was broadcast in 1967, lasting until 1974, on BBC1, he was well-known on British television. He was the commentator for the United Kingdom in the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest. Harris created one of his most famous roles in the 1960s, Jake the Peg, but his biggest success in terms of record sales was in 1969, with his"
"on 27 January 1968. Just Loving You Just Loving You is a 1967 song by Anita Harris. Prior to Chasing Cars, it was the highest selling UK #6. It was given to Harris to sing by Tom Springfield after Harris appeared on Top of the Pops. Recorded at Olympic Studios in a session produced by Margolis and featuring harmonica virtuoso Harry Pitch, ""Just Loving You"" hit the UK Top 50 on 1 July 1967. Even after peaking at No. 6 on 26 August 1967 ""Just Loving You"" remained in the UK Top 40 until the end of the year, dropping"
"the song reached number 1 on April 24, 1959, and remained in that position for three weeks, becoming the first posthumous number 1 hit in UK chart history. Holly would continue to achieve posthumous chart success in the UK well into the 1960s. In the United States it reached number 13 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It was Holly's last Top 20 hit in the United States. Internationally, the song reached number 1 in both Canada and Ireland, and also peaked at number 2 in the Australian charts. Linda Ronstadt covered ""It Doesn't Matter Anymore"" in 1975. As the"
"chart on 18th December 1969, where it stayed for six weeks, thus becoming the first No. 1 single of the 1970s as well as the last of the 1960s. On BBC Radio Blackburn in 1979, Margaret Thatcher picked it as a favourite song. In October 2008, Harris announced he would re-record the song, backed by North Wales' Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir, to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. Proceeds from the new release went to The Poppy Appeal. Harris was inspired to make the recording after participating in ""My Family at War"", a short series"
"1970s and early 1980s, his BBC TV series remained popular light-entertainment programmes in various versions, with the last show, ""Rolf on Saturday OK?"", broadcast on Saturday evenings. On many of his television appearances, Harris painted pictures on large boards in an apparently slapdash manner, with the odd nonsense song thrown in, asking ""Can you tell what is it yet?"" as he painted. Only at the end of the song would a fully formed picture emerge, sometimes only after the board was turned through ninety degrees. Such appearances led to several television series based on his artistic ability, notably ""Rolf's Cartoon"
"1963. The song was covered by Alice Cooper on their third album, ""Love it to Death"". Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin performed the song live on the ""Denton"" television show in 1994, as part of Page & Plant's ""No Quarter"" tour. The Godfathers covered the song as one of their first singles, which was later compiled onto ""Hit by Hit"". Sun Arise ""Sun Arise"" is the fourth single released by Australian singer-songwriter Rolf Harris. Released in January 1961 in Australia and October 1962 in the UK, it was Harris' third charting hit in Australia (following ""The Big"
"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"
"Roy Harris (folk singer) Roy Harris (15 June 1933 – 9 February 2016) was a British folk singer known for his role in the starting the folk club movement in southern Wales in the 1960s. He was often referred to as the “gentleman of folk song” due to his warm personality and congeniality as a folk club host. Harris primarily sang unaccompanied sea and military songs. Over the years Harris recorded over a dozen albums, mostly on the Topic Records and Fellside Recordings labels, along with notable British singers including Ewan MacColl, Frankie Armstrong, Martin Carthy and Martyn Wyndham-Read. Harris"
"Calvin Harris for Radio 1's 40th-anniversary album, ""Radio 1 Established 1967"", which was released in 2007. This version features snippets of the Jamiroquai original; however, Jamiroquai is not credited on the release. Stillness in Time ""Stillness in Time"" was released as the fifth and final overall single from British band Jamiroquai's second studio album, ""The Return of the Space Cowboy"". The track peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the group's highest-charting release to that date. Three main versions of the track exist: a radio edit, which runs at 3:43; the main album version, which runs"
"1957 and spent a total of ten weeks in the chart, peaking at #17 on 28 November. Its final single, ""Imitation of Love"", was released in 1961. The song the group is most identified with is ""I am a Mole and I Live in a Hole"" (also known as ""Mole"", ""The Mole"" and ""The Mole in a Hole""). The title line from the song was spoken by the group's bass voice Harry Wilmot, father of Gary Wilmot. Harry Wilmot died in 1961, when his son was six years old. The song failed to make the UK Singles Chart in 1958,"
"the UK Singles Chart. The album's fourth and final single, ""You Used to Hold Me"", was released on 8 February 2010, peaking at number 27 on the UK chart. An extended version of Harris's 2008 chart-topping collaboration with Dizzee Rascal, ""Dance wiv Me"", is also included on the album. ""Ready for the Weekend"" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 36,308 copies in its first week. The album was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 16 October 2009, and by November 2014, it had sold 274,786 copies in the United Kingdom. The album was"
"outside Buckingham Palace. In October 2012 Harris started presenting a series on Channel 5, based at Liverpool University's Veterinary School, called ""Rolf's Animal Clinic"". At the time of his arrest by British police on suspicion of sexual offences, the show was broadcasting a repeat run and was consequently ceased without any details of its future. As of 8 August 2013 Channel 5 has recommissioned the show under a new title, ""Ben Fogle's Animal Clinic"", and has replaced Harris with former BBC host Ben Fogle. Harris has released 30 studio albums, two live albums and 48 singles. In 1960 his single"
"Shadows' version was voted Top Record of 1960 in the ""New Musical Express"" Readers' Poll. The tune was also recorded by the Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann, who took it to number two in the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1961. Lordan gave up singing for full-time writing. He wrote the Shadows' UK number one hit ""Wonderful Land"" (1962) and their hits ""Atlantis"" (which reached number two in 1963) and ""Mary Anne"" (a rare vocal single from the group). He achieved a further number one, ""Diamonds"" for the ex-Shadows' Jet Harris and Tony Meehan in 1963. Harris and Meehan also recorded his"
"Forty Five Hundred Times ""Forty Five Hundred Times"" is a song by British rock band Status Quo. It is the final track on their 1973 album ""Hello!"", almost ten minutes long and regularly performed live. The group's frontmen, Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, have said it is one of their favourite songs by the band, with Parfitt using a special dropped tuning. The song was one of the few that members Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt wrote together. Rossi recalled, ""Each time we'd get something good Rick would try to improve it and we'd lose track of where we were."
"He played the title role in the film ""Cromwell"" in 1970 opposite Alec Guinness as King Charles I of England. That year British exhibitors voted him the 9th most popular star at the UK box office. Harris recorded several albums of music, one of which, ""A Tramp Shining"", included the seven-minute hit song ""MacArthur Park"" (Harris insisted on singing the lyric as ""MacArthur's Park""). This song was written by Jimmy Webb, and it reached number 2 on the American ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It also topped several music sales charts in Europe during the summer of 1968. ""MacArthur Park"" sold"
"In January 1968 Harris made her only appearance on the UK album chart when her ""Just Loving You"" album reached No. 29. The sustained interest in ""Just Loving You"" predicated a mild chart impact for her follow-up single ""The Playground"", released in September 1967. This reached its chart peak of No. 46 by 28 October 1967, the same week ""Just Loving You"" (which had dropped out of the Top 20 at No. 21) returned to the Top 20 for three more weeks. However she did score a substantial hit with her 5 January 1968 release, a remake of the standard"
"His biggest hit in the UK was ""English Country Garden"", a version of the folk song ""Country Gardens"", which reached number 5 in the chart in June 1962. In 1962, he moved to the Dot label, and four years later to A&M Records. He also appeared in some films, including ""The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come"", opposite Neil Hamilton, and ""Back Door to Hell"", which he helped finance. In 1966, a long dry spell ended for Rodgers when he re-entered the Top 40 with ""It's Over"" (later to be recorded by Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell and Sonny James)."
"Flashback (Calvin Harris song) ""Flashback"" is a song by Scottish musician Calvin Harris from his second studio album, ""Ready for the Weekend"" (2009). The song was released in the UK on 2 November 2009 and features Jordanian singer Ayah Marar. Harris and Marar would later work together again on Harris's 2013 single ""Thinking About You"". ""Flashback"" was released as the album's third single on 2 November 2009. To promote the track, Calvin was originally scheduled to perform on the UK morning talk show GMTV, however the show declined Calvin's appearance as they thought the song was ""too dancy"" for the"
"song than any of you realise."" On 27 March 2010, Rolf Harris claimed on BBC Radio 5 Live's Danny Baker Show that an out-of-court settlement had been reached, with a large sum of royalties received, after a musicologist found ""Prince Charming"" to be musically identical to Harris's 1965 song ""War Canoe"". Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song) ""Prince Charming"" was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in September 1981 for Adam and the Ants. Written by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni, and featuring on the album of the same name, it was Adam and"
"of ""The Black and White Minstrel Show"" in Bristol. Orville, recalled Simon Farquhar in his ""Independent"" obituary of Harris, was ""a huge, gormless, falsetto-voiced green duckling sporting a nappy fastened by a giant safety pin"". Harris recorded ""Orville's song"", written by Bobby Crush. It made the Top Ten in the UK singles chart in 1982 and sold 400,000 copies. It was later voted the worst song ever recorded. ""The Keith Harris Show"" ran on Saturday evenings on BBC1 from 1982 to 1990 and a series for children ""The Quack Chat Show"" (1989–90) also on BBC1. Harris appeared in several Royal"
"one child. Harris had his spleen removed and chemotherapy after a cancer diagnosis in 2013. He subsequently returned to work. The cancer returned in 2014 and he died on 28 April 2015, at the age of 67 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Keith Harris (ventriloquist) Keith Shenton Harris (21 September 1947 – 28 April 2015) was an English ventriloquist, best known for his television show ""The Keith Harris Show"" (1982–90), audio recordings, and club appearances with his puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. He had a UK Top 10 hit single in 1982 with ""Orville's Song"" which reached number"
"My Garden"", which appeared on the album ""Songs We Sang 68"". Among the hits were ""I natt jag drömde"" (a Swedish version of ""Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream""), Mike Berry's ""Tribute to Buddy Holly"" (#4, Sweden), ""Malaika"" (with lyrics in Swahili), ""Wedding"", ""Consolation"", ""Cadillac"" (#1, Sweden), ""Farmer John"" (#2, Sweden), ""No Response"" and ""Sunny Girl"". The group's last hit in 1969 was a cover of ""Speedy Gonzales"". The book ""Cadillac Madness - den otroliga berättelsen om Hep Stars"" had a bonus CD with four unpublished songs from 1966-67. A studio jam with the road manager Fernholm on bass"
"as high as number 40 pop, number nine Easy Listening, number 68 Country, and number five in the UK. ""An Old Fashioned Love Song"" by Three Dog Night reached number four on the Hot 100, spent a week at number one on the Easy Listening chart, and received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Actor Richard Harris had the most chart success with ""MacArthur Park"" by the time this album was recorded, reaching number two pop, number 10 Easy Listening, and number four in the UK, but Grammys for the song went to the Ray Charles Singers"
"number B 10394. In 1963, Richard Harris performed this song in the film ""This Sporting Life"", although he would not release his first album until four years later, with 1967's ""Camelot"". The track was Martino's only UK number one hit. His subsequent releases failed to reach the top of the chart, and his final UK chart appearance was in 1973, when a reissue of ""Spanish Eyes"" reached the top five. Here in My Heart ""Here in My Heart"" is a popular song, written by Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, and Bill Borrelli, and published in 1952. A recording of the song"
"""Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in her Stocking)"", previously made famous by the Andrews Sisters and Bill Haley, for Mercury Records. In 1966 she had a minor hit with a cover of the Jacques Brel song ""If You Go Away."" She was successful in Sweden, where ""I'll Save the Last Dance for You"" peaked at number 2 (March 1961), ""Do What You Want"" at number 5 (July 1961) and ""Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in her Stocking"" at number 3 (January 1962). She worked with Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. In 1963, she released"
"of Home' hit the top spot on 1 December 1966 and so includes three weeks at No. 1 during 1967. The song has featured prominently on several of Reeves' albums which have been released through the years. Distant Drums (song) ""Distant Drums"" is a song which provided US singer Jim Reeves with his only UK No. 1 hit – albeit posthumously – in the United Kingdom in 1966, some two years after his death in a plane crash on 31 July 1964. The song remained in the UK Singles Chart for 45 weeks. The single also topped the US country"