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Re: Rolf Harris

From: "G. Jeffrey Gower" <jgower@mtholyoke.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 20:52:07 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Rolf Harris
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On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Sawyer, Keith wrote:
> The Rolf Harris song you are refering to is "Sun Arise,"  and Rolf also 
> plays the digeridu on "The Dreaming."  I have a dusty 7'' of "Sun Arise" and 
> the digeridu track seems to be almost exactly the same in these two songs. 
>  But apart from the beat (and some background clanging and banging), there's 
> not many other similarities that make the leap into "The Dreaming."  "Sun 
> Arise" is a simple song about the sun slowly rising (if you *really* want 
> the lyrics I can post them) and relies heavily on a chorus of male vocalists 
> to answer the lead.

As many of you know, this song was covered in 1971 by Alice Cooper on his 
"Love it to Death" album.