What to do with Rolf Harris autograph?

Two Little Boys wasn't written by Rolf Harris though and I think there are other versions of it around.
It's going round in my head now, oh dear!

Pleasure busybee did you know that Gransnetters' names when highlighted in blue mean that you can find out a bit more about the writer, such as area they live in, how many grandchildren etc ? About 2 months after joining someone kindly told me this fact.

Even worse maybe, my choir from Bath raised money from concerts for Stoke Mandeville Hospital c 1983. I have photos in my album of us presenting the cheque & singing to Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville & my 3 young kids were pictured too. I had horrors that they had sat on his knee in the photo but at least they weren't doing that. I haven't destroyed the photos as they are part of our past & a reminder for the future of how innocence & good works can be totally betrayed, but nor would I seek to make money from them (or an autograph) or display them as macabre trophies. Such evil can never be destroyed, only transformed & learnt from, but never exploited either.

Thank you nanakate.

For your warm welcome to gransnet....

Busybee08 welcome to GN. Many of the topics we discuss are far more fun and lighthearted than this one. So just trawl through the forums and dip in.

Looks like eBay is swamped with Rolf Harris paintings at the moment.

She could try eBay....

I think the portrait of HM is in Rolf Harris' s private collection.

A friend has an original painting by him - she doesn't know what to do with it.

I have his autograph too, not sure where it is, I hope I still have it somewhere though as it is in a lovely old autograph book my father brought home one each for us (my siblings and me). I was about eight years old at the time and Rolph Harris was at my father's workplace. I don't know where Dad got hold of five autograph books when RH turned up. That was the only autograph in my book.

I love it! (Two Little Boys). It's very sweet. Don't like the more Aussie sounding ones though.

Tie me Kangaroo Down still has very clever lyrics and is good fun - I doubt whether it'll ever be played on any UK radio station in future, though.

What a strange reason to dislike a song! I always hated it anyway.

I still think Sun Arise was a lovely record, not that I can find my copy so there's no chance of me rushing to play it.

You did, jingl? I can't say it was my favourite song of all time. And when I found out Mags liked it, that was the death knell for me!

Well the song hasn't changed has it? I still like it.

And I've remembered that Maggie T LOVED 'Two Little Boys'. I wonder what she'd think of it now.

I'd keep it for now, as others have suggested - just put it away quietly until it gains notoriety value, as whenim has suggested!

I suspect people everywhere will be ransacking their old music collections to bin recordings of Two Little Boys, Sun Arise and Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport...

Good idea to put it away for now, vicky1.
I also wonder who would want to buy such a thing, (answer: probably some weirdo) so I think it'd be best to destroy it if you do decide to get rid.

Hi everyone

just signed up to gransnet.

so i'm having to get use to how this works..

I think its up to you what you do about it. but bare in mind what the children who he abused feel...it will only be a reminder to you how they suffered at his hands.....

No doubt it will reappear on Cash in the Attic in about twenty years' time.

I thought the painting had been with some gallery or other but they now say they don't know where it is! I don't think it was ever meant to be kept by HM (although I believe it was displayed at Buck House for a short time).

Yes! I'm very interested in what is going to happen about the painting!

@vegasmags was trying to be funny... obviously unsuccessfully
Perhaps the queen will be along on here soon asking advice about the painting!

If you really don't know what a pension pot is, I would suggest you find out rather than worrying about Rolf Harris's autograph.

Lady Churchill burnt a Graham Sutherland portrait of Winston that they didn't like. Maybe the queen will burn the Harris portrait.