Friday Freak-Out: Rolf Harris performing "Sun Arise"

Friday Freak-Out: Rolf Harris performing his 1962 hit "Sun Arise."

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- MrWednesday7
  
  So you liked it, then?
http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose

That’s actually pretty good. When I saw it was by Rolf Harris I thought it would be more like “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1FbAsFX8sA
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

OMG! We had this album when I was a kid in the mid 60s! I used to listen to it all the time.Wow, does that bring back memories.

http://www.amazon.com/Tie-Kangaroo-Down-Sport-Arise/dp/B006QYHF8Y/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1336162444&sr=8-16
estragon_nyc

Kate Bush did a tribute to this song in 1982 (not a cover version as such, but still a close homage) with Rolf himself performing on the track, though he doesn’t appear in this VERY Eighties video for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Wa0LdCsvM
- http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
  
  I don’t see how The Dreaming is a homage to this song, apart from the fact that both feature Rolf playing didgeridoo. If you are making didgeridoo music in the UK you pretty much have to go to Rolf Harris anyway.
http://twitter.com/IvanBurtonArt Ivan Burton

Alice Cooper, of all people, introduced me to this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAx6iwwaI8o
http://billso.com/ Bill Sodeman

Reminds me of the good old days, way back in 1975, when The Goodies hunted Rolf Harrises for their Star Safari Park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1as4GbBLU
ledatape

Engineered by Geoff Emerick – DO NOT ask me about Rolf’s occult links to William Burroughs and the Situationists (clue: via the Beatles)…
- Wreckrob8
  
  And as promoter of the stylophone he links to Bowie, Kraftwerk and rave music.
rivkin

The Godfathers did a great version of this, as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7mXXFA2mC8